Human security is closer to home than we think

Dindo Manhit - @inquirerdotnet 03/26/2022

It has been exactly two years since the first COVID-19 lockdowns were enforced. Since then, the issue of human security has become more pronounced. The lives of millions of Filipinos have been disrupted, socially and economically. Curiously,…

A green recovery pathway for PH

Khalid Hassan, Selva Ramachandran - @inquirerdotnet 03/27/2021

Over a year has passed since COVID-19 hit, causing job losses and increasing poverty levels in its wake. Sadly, it has impacted people unevenly. A recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) survey showed that many households (27…

Africa taps PH app as early warning tool

PR 11/08/2016

BATINGAW, the disaster management mobile application launched in 2014 by the Office of Civil Defense-National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (OCD-NDRRMC) and Smart Communications, has been tapped as a tool for building resilience in the Horn…

I am for continuity

Fernando Fajardo 05/05/2016

Reflections from Paseo de Coro There had never been a government in the Philippines since the postwar years that the economy grew by over 6 percent at a sustained rate what the present administration had achieved in just…

Hospitals told to use autoclaving

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/28/2015

AN international environmental expert is encouraging hospitals, medical laboratories and facilities to adopt non-burn technologies in disposing of medical and hazardous wastes like autoclaving. “Standard autoclaving is one of the cheapest alternative waste treatment technologies that employs…

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