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It’s always smart to understand your money-making options, regardless of an international pandemic. As the health crisis points out, you never know when a drop in earnings will occur, and you can’t predict if you’ll be able to make up for it in the short, medium, or long-term. Rather than …

There is less than one month to go before the end of the Brexit transition period. From midnight on 31 December, the UK will be ‘on its own’ as far as Europe is concerned. With this in mind, here are six critical challenges that the UK’s construction industry (in common …

Headline inflation quickened to 3.3% in November, as food prices rose. — Photo by Michael Varcas, The Philippine Star The overall year-on-year increase in prices of widely used goods accelerated to its fastest pace in 21 months in November, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday. Preliminary PSA data …

MARIA RESSA, Executive Editor and CEO of Philippine news website Rappler, speaks to the media beside former Rappler reporter Reynaldo Santos Jr. (L) and lawyer Ted Te (R), after being found guilty of cyber-libel, in Manila City Hall, June 15. — REUTERS A COMMITTEE report on the proposal seeking to …

Senator Leila de Lima THE Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday filed a motion asking the court to cite detained Senator Leila M. De Lima and her lawyer in contempt over public statements on trial proceedings. The prosecutors said Ms. De Lima and her lawyer Filibon F. Tacardon violated the …

HUMAN rights group Karapatan on Friday filed criminal and administrative charges against several government officials for allegedly maligning and red-tagging the alliance’s officers and members. The complaint filed before the Office of the Ombudsman names the following: National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.; General Antonio, Parlade Jr., head of the …

PHILSTAR THE Department of Justice (DoJ)-led Task Force Against Corruption has approved the guidelines on dealing with corruption-related complaints filed against officials of government agencies and local government units, Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevara said Friday. With the approval of the guidelines, the task force operations center is expected to …

THE Transportation department and the Department of National Defense (DND) on Friday inked a usufruct agreement covering five properties of the latter, which will be partly used for the Metro Manila Subway project. Under the agreement, the DND properties that would be expropriated are the Veterans Memorial Medical Center and …

CONFERENCES, workshops and other similar activities are now allowed in areas under the general quarantine level, a move that will help boost the battered tourism sector. “While the pandemic has taught organizers to embrace technology, some gatherings in a physical set-up can now proceed, with health and safety protocols in …

FREEPIK THE Department of Health reported 934 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the lowest since November 4 when it recorded 987. Prior to early November, the last time the daily case record below 1,000 was in mid-July. The country now has a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tally of 436,345. An …