Globe Telecom Inc. is planning to roll out a million fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) lines this year, as part of its P70 billion in capital expenditures for 2021. In a statement on Friday, the company said that FTTH lines will be deployed to meet rising demand for faster internet services as people continue work from home during […]Read More

Listed SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) joined a group of businesses championing sustainability called the 50 Sustainability & Climate Leaders. SMIC is the only Philippine company to join the campaign, alongside United States, Kenya, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. “We recognize our role and responsibilities in creating a more sustainable future. Our footprint […]Read More

To improve workplace inclusivity, the Microsoft Enabler Program provides cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) training for persons with disabilities (PWDs), accessibility education for employers, and inclusive hiring from non-profit organizations (NPOs) supporting PWDs. “Accessibility education for employers is going beyond sensitization training. It’s having a knowledge base where the employees of the organization can access […]Read More

SHARES declined on Friday as the slow progress of the government’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program clouded market sentiment. The 30-member Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) went down by 45.15 points or 0.69% to close at 6,494.81 on Friday, while the broader all shares index fell by 16.07 points or 0.4% to 3,981.51. Philstocks […]Read More

SEOUL — South Korea’s Huons Global Co. Ltd. said on Friday it will lead a consortium to produce 100 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine per month as Moscow ramps up production for supplies abroad. The announcement comes after South Korean biotech firm GL Rapha signed a deal with Russia’s […]Read More

Image of the Statue of Law by Chabe01/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons PARIS — The French parliament on Thursday adopted legislation that characterizes sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 years in jail, bringing its penal code closer in line with many other Western nations. While […]Read More

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will present a united front on Taiwan, China’s most sensitive territorial issue, in a summit meeting on Friday, according to a senior US administration official. Messrs. Biden and Suga are expected to agree on a joint statement on the Chinese-claimed […]Read More

Last April 6, 2021, on a Tuesday afternoon, a fire broke out in Salcedo Village, Makati at the Vernida IV building. The fire had spread to the upper floors of the commercial building before it was put out by the city’s Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP). The high-rise located at L.P. Leviste street of Makati […]Read More

Photo of Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai by Studio Incendo/CC BY 2.0/Wikimedia Commons HONG KONG — Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and nine other pro-democracy activists are expected to be sentenced on Friday after they were found guilty of participating in unauthorized assemblies during anti-government protests in 2019. It would be the first time […]Read More

Screenshot of US President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., via The White House/YouTube WASHINGTON/MOSCOW — The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market, to punish it for interfering in last year’s US election, cyber hacking, bullying Ukraine and other alleged malign actions. The US […]Read More