Bad News

By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News, 3 Dec 2019 The Philippines performed the poorest out of 79 countries in a reading literacy assessment conducted by the inter-government group Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The Philippines has one of the worst cases of income inequality in the world, according to Credit Suisse in its annual global wealth report.

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By: Krissy Aguilar, INQINQUIRER.net, 7 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Manila ranked poorly at third place among 56 cities worldwide with the lowest quality of life, research published by Deutsche Bank has shown.

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by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) – 24 Sept 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines, whose relations with international bodies have turned sour, has been listed among 48 countries that registered a rising retaliation against civil society groups and human rights defenders who have been cooperating with the United Nations.

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by Denise A. Valdez, BusinessWorld, Aug 5, 2019 THE Philippines moved up to fifth place from ninth a year earlier in Kaspersky Lab’s global list of countries with most online threats detected in the second quarter of 2019.

by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star) – Jul 4, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The situation of workers in the Philippines continued to deteriorate in the past year, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said yesterday, citing the latest Global Rights Index released by the International Trade Union Confederation.

By Elijah Felice Rosales, Businessmirror, Jul 4, 2019 THE Philippines has one of the most restrictive trade regimes in Southeast Asia for pharmaceutical items in spite of rising consumer spending on health, according to a study.

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by Jovic Yee, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 03, 2018 Pollution caused by traditional cooking fuel is killing people in the Philippines at higher rates than those in most other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

by Harold James, Apr 10, 2018 Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis Further reading arrow grey Economic and financial issues nowadays tend to be discussed in intellectual silos, by specialists who give little mind to security concerns or the interplay between national and international objectives. But sooner or later, economists will realize that…

by Agence France-Presse, Mar 1, 2018 PARIS — Iraq and the Philippines are the deadliest places for journalists, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

by Miguel R. Camus, Inquirer, Feb 21, 2018 The Philippines saw improvements for both 4G availability and speed although most of its neighbors in the region remained ahead by those measures, the latest crowdsourced survey by OpenSignal showed.

The Philippines drops 18 slots to rank 88th out of 113 countries in the newly released World Justice Project Rule of Law Index by Carmela Fonbuena, Rappler, Jan 31, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – Rule of law in the Philippines deteriorated significantly since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power, according to the newly-released World Justice Project…

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By Krista A. M. Montealegre, Businessworld, Nov 8, 2017 THE Philippines is putting a brave face in the fight to preserve its place among the world’s top outsourcing destinations, as it looks at an uncertain future due to automation and artificial intelligence (AI).

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by Jhoanna Ballaran, Inquirer, Sep 14, 2017 Manila is one of the most stressful cities in the world, more stressful than the war-torn city of Damascus in Syria, a study and research by a U.K. private firm revealed.

By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), Aug 25, 2017 That the Philippines has the highest HIV-AIDS infection rate in Asia-Pacific should jolt the health department from complacency. Present information drives and treatment plans may be inadequate. This is obvious when taken with the continually increasing teenage pregnancies as well. In contrast, in most of Asia-Pacific,…

By RIE TAKUMI,GMA News, Aug 16, 2017 The Philippines is among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries with the slowest broadband and mobile internet connections and is near the bottom of the ranks around the world.

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star), Aug 13, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – With new infections doubling in the past six years to over 10,000 new cases in 2016 alone, the Philippines is facing an “unprecedented HIV crisis,” the global medical journal The Lancet said yesterday.

by Miguel R. Camus, Inquirer Filipinos worried far more than other countries when going by the 2017 Unisys Security Index, the latest iteration of the decade-old survey that included the Philippines for the first time.

BY MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO, TMT, Manila Times, Jun 9, 2017 Still a favored recipient of fdi The Philippines remains a promising host country for multinational enterprises (MNEs) for 2017 to 2019, according to a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) report.

SURVEY SAYS by LA, GMA News, Jun 7, 2017 That’s got to be a slap in the face. Manila is the worst place they’ve ever been to, according to travelers polled by travel guide South East Asia Backpacker.