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Local solutions toward food security

Two years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic came to the fore, drastically disrupting all sectors of Philippine society. But even before the pandemic, the country has already been experiencing two ongoing crises: hunger and malnutrition. It may seem like a good sign that the Philippines was not identified as among the countries with “the likelihood of…

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What does the education sector need today? More than laptops and WiFi, say experts

At present, the Philippines has around 26 million students. But the number of stakeholders—the people also involved in these students’ education—goes far beyond that. Family life and child development specialist Teacher Tina Zamora pegs the number of education stakeholders to a whopping 90 million, out of the country’s population of 115 million. Zamora said in…

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What makes Asian consumers tick?

Much has been written about the pandemic’s impact on Asian consumers: how they embraced new ways of shopping, as well as how retailers and consumer goods companies were forced to quickly adapt their business models. Now, the focus has shifted to whether many of these patterns and preferences will endure once the pandemic abates, and…

Digital is the new guard

Digital is increasingly becoming the name of the game. From television channels entering into the streaming service fight to daily broadsheets getting their own apps, more and more industries have realized that the new business battleground is our devices. As Forbes stated in 2021: “An entirely new game is being played. In this new game,…