by Teuvo Tuomi | Apr 9, 2024 | Health, ASEAN, Lifestyle, Philippines, Society, Southeast Asia
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that almost 800 million people in the Western Pacific region, including the Philippines, do not have full access to basic health services. WHO says that two in five people—about 782 million—still cannot get essential health...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Apr 4, 2024 | ASEAN, Environment, News, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia
Temperatures in the next two months – usually among the warmest months in the year – could go up due to lingering effects of the El Nino phenomenon that gripped Singapore from the second half of 2023, experts say. Meanwhile, several local governments in the...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Mar 17, 2024 | Malaysia, ASEAN, Business, Indonesia, Philippines, Society, Southeast Asia, Thailand
The Philippines has the highest number of women in senior management positions in the world, 43%, according to a recent Grant Thornton survey. Filipino companies have consistently ranked near the top in the surveys, including second in 2023, fourth in 2022, and first...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Mar 4, 2024 | Philippines, Economy, News, Trade
The Philippines hopes to launch formal free trade agreement negotiations with the European Union (EU) “very soon,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo says. The Southeast Asian nation has already been in preliminary talks with the 27-nation bloc. Now it aims to...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Feb 7, 2024 | Philippines, Economy, News
The number of unemployed Filipinos has hit another record low. There were 1.6 million jobless people in the Philippines in December 2023, down from 1.83 million in the preceding month, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reports. The official jobless rate is...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 29, 2024 | Philippines, News
Motorists in the Philippines will see an increase in the prices of petroleum products on Tuesday, 30 January, with local oil firms saying that prices will rise by up to P2.80 per liter. Shell, Seaoil, and CleanFuel have announced that the prices per liter of gasoline...
