No more bambinos? Italian companies tackle birth crisis
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A woman watches her baby in a park in Milan, Italy, May 4, 2020. — REUTERS/FLAVIO LO SCALZO CARTIGLIANO — Businesses in…
Macau’s casino losses engulf gambling hub as no quick fix in sight
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Visitors take photos in front of a scale replica of Eiffel Tower in Macau, China, Aug. 16, 2016. — REUTERS/BOBBY YIP HONG…
A chance to do better — and move on
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WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BONGBONGMARCOS The energies of the incoming Marcos II regime are better spent on addressing the many problems it is inheriting from its…
How Elizabethan law once protected the poor from the high cost of living — and led to unrivaled economic prosperity
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COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG In the closing years of Elizabeth I’s reign, England saw the emergence of arguably the world’s first effective welfare state. Laws…
These are the batteries we need to ease the power crunch
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THE WORLD is struggling with simultaneous energy and climate crises. To solve the first could require undoing all the progress made toward…
AI, hybrid cloud computing to level playing field for Asian MSMEs, says IBM
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Multinational corporation IBM announced on June 2 several partnerships involving artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid cloud computing that signal a “rapid reordering…
PDS Group launches live fully DLT-based digital bond, with P11-B oversubscribed UnionBank bond and STACS as technology partner
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The Philippine Dealing System Holdings Corp. (PDS Group) today announced the launch of a fully digitally native bond, issued on a distributed…
Enjoy Lexus vehicle services with a simple swipe of your Metrobank credit card at zero percent interest
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Lexus believes that creating new standards of luxury is not simply a matter of adding more equipment features and technologies to its…
India’s new VPN rules spark fresh fears over online privacy
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UNSPLASH Virtual private networks (VPNs) that encrypt data and provide users with anonymity online have seen a surge in use in India…
Dimon says brace for US economic ‘hurricane’ due to inflation
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REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE/FILE PHOTO Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. described the challenges facing the US economy akin…