Published May 6, 2021, 10:15 AM From a bamboo cart on Maginhawa Street, Patricia Non has inspired many Filipinos to open community pantries and share what they can to feed the poor.
The woman behind this remarkable initiative is only 26 years old, a graduate of UP College of Fine Arts, and an entrepreneur running a small furniture making shop whose operations stopped due to the pandemic.
Before the community pantry, many knew Patricia as a volunteer or organizer of activities to help the poor.
Fifteen months after the first lockdown in the whole island of Luzon, it took a 26-year-old woman to start the spread of kindness through an act of concern and generosity.
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May 6, 2021 | 7:53 pm
The GOVERNMENT needs to review the foreign investment restrictions on digital platforms to remove obstacles to their growth, a researcher for the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said.
Aiken Larisa Serzo, a consultant with the University of the Philippines Law Center, said digital platforms are classified as mass media or service providers under the telecommunications industry, subjecting them to foreign equity restrictions.
“Various pronouncements have set a rule wherein if you’re an internet business, communicating any message to the public, whether or not you’re the author of those messages, is mass media, and thus, subject to the foreign equity restriction of 100%,” Ms. Serzo said in a PIDS statement.