Businesses’ shift to digital could become permanent
With the Philippines remaining under varying degrees of quarantine due to COVID-19, a new Economist Intelligence Unit study for TransUnion ...
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PH ranks 5th globally in financial inclusion
The Philippines ranked fifth worldwide and the first in Asia along with India among countries that promote financial inclusion, based ...
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Climate impacts to cost $7.9 trillion
Paris--Climate change could directly cost the world economy $7.9 trillion by mid-century as increased drought, flooding and crop failures hamper ...
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Vienna ‘most livable city’ for second year
Vienna"•The Austrian capital Vienna has retained its ranking as the world’s most livable city, according to an annual report from ...
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Paris priciest city, Caracas cheapest
Singapore—Paris has climbed to the top of the world’s priciest city for expatriates, tied first with Singapore and Hong Kong ...
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No worries in Melbourne
(Part 1) By Bernadette Lunas On a recent flight from Melbourne to Sydney, it took me more than enough time ...
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Unsafe city
IT was amusing—and a little sad—to hear the Manila Police District this week take exception to a study by the ...
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Manila cops object to city tag ‘unsafe’
THE Manila Police District said Sunday that a British study ranking Manila as among the least safe cities in the ...
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‘Trump victory a major global risk’
LONDON—The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency represents a global threat on a par with the jihadist militancy ...
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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.