More Filipinos recognize the value of saving money
More than two years after the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Filipinos raring for a restart actually improved their mindset ...
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Toyota offers financing deals for MSMEs
Based on Q4 2020 statistics from the United Nations Development Programme, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have made up ...
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Tubbataha Reefs among five candidate sites for ASEAN marine protected area management project
Five sites in the Philippines including the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (TRNP) have been named candidates for a marine protected ...
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PLDT, UNDP and DICT roll out school Wi-Fi
PLDT Inc. has teamed up with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology ...
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Fighting climate change
It is good that more people are now getting aware of the danger the world faces due to climate change. ...
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Pandemic panners: Indonesians hunt for gold in desperate times
With the coronavirus devastating jobs across the country, desperate Indonesians are flocking to illegal gold mines as the soaring price ...
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From arms to farms, from ARMM to BARMM, from revolution to reformation: The struggle for peace and development”
By Enrico Gaveglia and Chetan Kumar The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is one of the wealthiest in ...
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A data driven revolution for a better future
By Titon Mitra Resident Representative, UNDP Philippines In a matter of months, over 3 million people have been infected, hundreds ...
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UN helps BARMM acquire ventilators for COVID patients
Cotabato City—The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Philippines is helping the Bangsamoro government acquire 15 medical ventilator machines ...
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Invisible barriers
Pervasive bias and prejudice against women continue at an alarming—in fact, shocking—rate, according to the Gender Social Norms Index, released ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.