Less than a week before the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the Scheme) is due to go live (currently due to open on 20 April), further significant changes have been published in the form of a Treasury Direction (the Direction), setting out the

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A common topic for sector discussion is whether “fitness to study” is an appropriate term to use in connection with an institution’s regulation of its student community where a concern arises about the ability of a student to study...

Women in camps worry they will find little aid if they become victims of physical or sexual violence.

More than 250,000 people have died in this pandemic, but untold indirect losses lie ahead as other health services risk being neglected.

Coronavirus adds 20 percent to the world's humanitarian bill.

The botched raid comes amid concerns over the regime’s ability to cope with COVID-19, given its run-down economy and health systems.

Coronavirus concerns are grabbing the headlines. But other crises haven’t stopped. Here’s a look at what else is going on.

MULTI-Grammy Award-winning singer Michael Bublé honored his grandfather’s last wish by turning over his home in Vancouver, Canada, to his longtime Filipina caregiver Minette. In an episode of the HGTV show “Celebrity IOU,” the international star behind the hit songs “Feeling Good,” “Haven’t Met You” and “Home” said Minette took good care of his grandfather […]

SPEAKER Alan Peter Cayetano breaks his silence on the closure of media giant ABS-CBN Corp. after a cease and desist order was issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and warned of “reckoning” for those responsible for the “mess”. “Last Tuesday we were all ambushed by the NTC,” Cayetano said in a statement posted on […]

OFFSHORE gaming operators and their service providers must settle all their tax liabilities before resuming operations, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd reiterated on Friday. “In order for POGO (Philippine offshore gaming operators) service providers to be allowed to operate, they must pay their 2019 income tax liabilities, or in the case of POGO franchisees, the […]

THE Supreme Court will raffle off next week media giant ABS-CBN’s petition to set aside the closure order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). “The petition will be raffled to a member-in-charge on Monday, 11 May 2020, who will then make a recommendation for the consideration of the Court en banc,” Brian Keith Hosaka, […]

TWO sailors were injured after fire broke out from one of the Philippine Navy ships tasked to bring home donated personal protective equipment (PPE) from India. Lt. Cdr. Maria Christina Roxas, Philippine Navy spokesman, said the fire started at the main engine room of the BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16), a few hours after leaving Cochin […]

Excessive use of force by the security forces during the Covid-19 pandemic has overwhelmingly been experienced in poor communities

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The stigma around the plant needs to be addressed and citizens involved in new policies and processes in order for the market to change

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A more equitable and fair society, able to conquer the effects of pandemics, starts with debt-free education and skills development

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The coronavirus pandemic has brought the role of universities in nurturing scientific inquiry and evidence-based policy-making to the fore

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MANILA: Manila’s international airport will allow international charter and commercial flights to resume arriving on designated days, beginning from Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of fans of the K-pop supergroup Blackpink have reacted with anguish and outrage to reports of a death threat made against its Thai star, Lalisa “Lisa” Manoban.

PATTAYA: Three foreigners have been detained for violating the emergency decree after they were found swimming at a closed beach behind a hotel in this resort city on Saturday.

SURAT THANI: A Spanish man has allegedly stabbed a Chilean man to death on Koh Phangan in this southern province.

A potential second wave of coronavirus infections could be possible in South Korea after confirmed cases suddenly increased after a lull, with a surge tied to nightclubs in Seoul.

Kristalina Georgieva is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented human and economic crisis. Governments are taking strong actions, enforcing quarantines to reduce contagion, testing populations, building emergency intensive care units. Governments have also launched large fiscal stimulus plans to protect jobs and the economy, as well as temporary social protection programs such as income/food support, subsidies […]

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Rev Liberato C. Bautista is assistant general secretary for United Nations and International Affairs of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society. He also serves as president of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.

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The international community is developing policy measures and actions to help the people most vulnerable to drought to take early action to avoid loss of life, and the heavy and growing losses of livelihoods and damage to property and ecosystems following droughts. The Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought (IWG) that is leading this initiative is […]

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“I have never planted a tree in my life,” laughs Jairos Saunyama, a tobacco farmer, revelling at the absurdity of the question of whether he is involved in the country’s afforestation efforts. Sawunyama is one of thousands of farmers who are blamed by local conservationists for turning the country’s forests into deserts and dust bowls. […]

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IPS correspondent Jewel Fraser finds out whether a GEF-funded project can really help Trinidad and Tobago quarry companies be environmentally responsible.

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Leonardo Beltran is Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of the Americas, Member of the Board of SEforALL, and former Deputy Secretary at the Mexican Department of Energy

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At around 11am on a Saturday, Luke Okomo arrives at Dunga Beach, on the outskirts of Kenya’s Kisumu City, and heads straight to what is known as the ‘Dunga Papyrus Boardwalk’. He pays Sh200 ($2), the daily fee for local tourists and students, and then joins a group of five visitors already taking a tour […]

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Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP

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Rosa Manzano carefully arranges pieces of wood in a big mud igloo that, seven days after it is full, will produce charcoal of high caloric content. “Our forest also produces oak, which in the past was only sold as firewood and had little value. But with forest management and the work of women who have […]

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Peter Paul van de Wijs is Chief External Affairs Officer, Global Reporting Initiative

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Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society’s structure, its standard of living, and its political priorities. […] Epidemics are a mirror, they show who we really are: Our […]

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Sexual and reproductive health and pandemics might seem to be unrelated topics, but large and dense populations are drivers of the high velocity transmission of COVID-19, and there are lessons to be learned for the future. Gains made in women’s sexual reproductive health and rights just took several steps backward in the midst of the […]

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Both countries have a common language and common cultural practices with neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia.

Numbers hurtling towards 1,000 after 55 more people contracted the virus disease.

Sixteen are from Unguja while 13 are from Pemba, all Tanzanians.

Govt says there were confrontation between ruling party supporters and opposition.

Efforts include trimming of non-core expenditures such as travel and trainings.

SGR allocated almost half of the development budget of the Ministry of Works.

EAC members have over time slowly digressed from commitments.

There's a paucity of accurate, practical community-level information about the pandemic.

The pandemic has ratcheted Sino-American tensions up to 11.

There's little downside for the founder of the collapsed office rental company in taking on his former benefactor.

The forces toward digitalization unleashed by the COVID-19 crisis will make Japan stronger, more competitive and more prosperous.

The U.S.-Japan relationship is going to come through this pandemic even stronger than before.

Monetary easing measures adopted by the Bank of Japan lack boldness.

The U.S. needs a more expansive strategy to maintain its lead in this field, and that means working closely with its allies, especially Japan.

Rokuro Inui uses familiar elements of Japanese culture and history to build the world of his 2019 novel “Automatic Eve” (originally published in Japanese in ...