NEWLYWEDS pose for a photographer in front of overflowing garbage bins in a street near the Eiffel Tower as garbage has not been collected due to a strike of garbage collectors against the French government pension reform, in Paris, France, March 27, 2023. — REUTERSPARIS
A WOMAN walks on the ice to a measuring point on the Pers Glacier near the Alpine resort of Pontresina, Switzerland, July 21, 2022. — REUTERSGENEVA — Last summer while dozens of Swiss pensioners were campaigning in the Alps to save their fast-melting glaciers, 85-year-old
RAWFILM-UNSPLASH BERLIN — Global investments in energy transition technologies must more than quadruple annually to stay in line with commitments made under the Paris climate accord, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said on Tuesday.Investments in renewable energy technologies reached a record of $1.3
FREEPIKTHE UNPRECEDENTED fiscal firepower used to protect the vulnerable from the harsh socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic contraction have pushed the average government debt level in the Asia-Pacific region to its highest since 2008.Public debt distress is expected to worsen
FREEPIKThe Stratbase ADR Institute, in partnership with UHC (Universal Health Care) Watch and the Philippine Society of Orphan Disorders (PSOD), held a forum last week titled “Sustaining Gains and Balancing Priorities – Implementation of Rare Disease Act for 2023.” This was the third discussion, since
THE most fundamental questions for all organizations are about numbers. Is there a point when economies of scale are negated by the costs of bureaucracy and alienation? How many people can you admit to a meeting before it becomes a waste of time? What is
GIORGIO TROVATO-UNSPLASHTHE Federal Reserve (Fed) did the sensible thing at its March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting, and Chairman Jerome Powell delivered a sensible message, in my view. Financial markets gave it a very dovish interpretation, which to me seems off the mark,
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Long-running talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union are on the brink of collapse, with the company’s board thought to have threatened to put the loss-making postal service – the regulated UK entity that delivers to every address in the country
TOKYO – Japan, the United States and the Philippines are preparing to establish a formal framework for high-level ministerial talks on security matters, the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.The three countries are considering holding their first meeting as early as April, Kyodo said.The move comes as Taiwan, which lies between Japan and the Philippines, has become a focal point
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. lauded Pag-IBIG Fund’s highest dividend rates since the COVID-19 pandemic, as its Regular Savings dividend rate for 2022 reached 6.53% and its Modified Pag-IBIG 2 (MP2) Savings surged to 7.03% per annum.The dividend rates on the members’ savings of the
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>Retailers are becoming more optimistic about their near-term trading outlook after a “challenging winter”. For the first time since last September, a majority expect their sales to rise over the next month, according to the latest distributive trends survey from the CBI.Of the 135
<?xml encoding="utf-8" ??>A businessman who presided over one of Britain’s worst “pension liberation” scandals was branded evasive, hostile and guilty of “highly regrettable conduct”, according to the judgment in a tax tribunal published yesterday. Craig Tweedley, founder of the pension scheme company Ark LLP, displayed “a