Tag: Economy

Tiny green-brown frogs squat croaking in the tropical heat on makeshift ponds fashioned out of old tires, tucked in among abandoned cars

The boom in food delivery apps meant customers were already used to having restaurant quality meals quickly delivered to their homes

About 100,000 seafarers are stranded at sea beyond their regular stints of typically 3-9 months

The one-year project with US$2.2 million funding from Japan aims to help improve the safety and health of workers in MSMEs

Italy said the G20 would return to the issue of vaccine funding for poor countries ahead of a Rome summit in October

Tourism ground to a halt last year when the government imposed tight entry requirements to keep out COVID-19

Drivers of Bangkok's distinctive tuk tuks have been among the hardest-hit by the pandemic's devastation of Thailand's all-important tourism industry

Pope Francis warned against an “elitist dynamic” that discards others and sacrifices “those who have been left behind"

The World Bank's forecast was cut from its previous projection of 5.5% and compares with the Philippine's 2021 growth target of 6.0%-7.0%

Pope Francis urged the faithful to pray "to prevent the poor from paying the consequences" of "financial speculation"