Break in fuel price rollback likely next week
Pump prices for domestic oil products may rise anew—after three straight weeks of rollbacks—if China lifts its COVID-19 lockdowns and ...
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China’s factory activity shrinks as lockdowns hurt economy
BEIJING, China—China’s factory activity shrank in March, official data showed Thursday, as the country’s worst COVID outbreak in two years ...
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Samoa, Kiribati to lock down as virus hits islands
Kiribati and Samoa entered lockdowns Saturday after overseas arrivals brought Covid to the Pacific island nations that had avoided the ...
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Lockdowns sank Australian economy in third quarter
SYDNEY, Australia—Pandemic-induced lockdowns caused Australia’s economy to shrink 1.9 percent in the third quarter, a downturn that bucked the trend ...
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Biden dives into US oil reserves to reassure Americans on inflation
Washington—President Joe Biden tapped the US strategic oil reserves Tuesday in a bid to reassure Americans angry about inflation and ...
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Kaspersky reasearch: SEA socmed users seek ‘one-sided’ relationships to escape lockdown reality, Kaspersky research finds
One-sided relationships, also known as “parasocial relationships”, are blossoming worldwide and in Southeast Asia (SEA) amid social distancing and continuing ...
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Teachers’ tales
"They put up a valiant fight against the pandemic and against the imperfect system, day after day." This week culminates ...
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Secretary Duque’s alarming economic forecast
"How did he arrive at this?" After 18 months of a largely ineffective government policy of quarantines and ...
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Off-site office option here to stay
The Filipino workforce has seen the rise of the work-from-home (WFH) setup since major lockdowns were imposed last year. RL ...
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PH malls reeling from lockdowns
Shopping malls in the Philippines are bearing the brunt of rigid quarantine rules. They continue to suffer from slow foot ...
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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.