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Marivi Soliven is a local author who has taught writing workshops at the University of California, San Diego and at the University of the Philippines.
“The situation may be sh , but it’s our fertilizer for the future” Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia, 1992
I came across President Meri’s quote last spring and adopted it as a personal slogan as the ensuing months turned ever more grim. Framing 2020 in this way enabled me to accept that this was a season better suited to gathering stories than writing them.
The COVID-19 pandemic snuffed out not only lives, but also creative endeavors, mine included. In January, the film adaptation of my novel “The Mango Bride” was inching toward the first day of filming, with its screenplay completed, most of the lead roles cast and funding in the home stretch. Additionally, I had begun talking with Marc Chery at the San Diego Central Library and professors at UC San Diego about organizing a sequel to “Centering the Mar
Published January 3, 2021, 6:00 AM
Students from the University of the Philippines (UP) scored prestigious victory in the global competition on tracking and reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from vehicles, a contest for the youth that has multinational energy giant Royal Dutch Shell as its sponsor and prime mover.
As formally announced by Shell recently, “a team of students from the University of the Philippines had been crowned global champions of Shell’s Pitch The Future competition.”
The event spotlighted series of competitions that brought together student-teams from various countries globally “to tackle real-world energy challenges.”
Photo of “UP Alamat” Team in Shell Global Competition.
Published on: Friday, January 01, 2021
By: Philstar
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The increase in the birth rate was brought about by disruptions in the delivery of family planning services due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
MANILA: The Philippine population is expected to reach 110.8 million in 2021, up from 109.4 million in 2020, the Commission on Population (PopCom) said Wednesday.
The figure does not include some 250,000 babies projected by the University of the Philippines-Population Institute (UPPI) to be born due to the community quarantine imposed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to PopCom executive director Juan Antonio Perez III, the UPPI’s projection showed there will be up to 750,000 new births next year related to the quarantine.
By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, GMA News
Published January 2, 2021 12:35am The Quezon City local government on Friday announced that it would resume the dry run for a zipper lane on Commonwealth Avenue on Saturday, January 2. According to the LGU, the dry run will be conducted with the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority and MRT-7 contractor EEI starting 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. with modifications. One of the entrances will be at the Luzon Avenue-Tandang Sora Avenue area while another will be in front of UP-Ayala Technohub. The zipper lane will then end at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue eastbound and University Avenue leading to the University of the Philippines – Diliman.
Published December 31, 2020, 5:13 PM
The year 2020 started with optimism as the Department of Tourism (DoT) aimed to surpass the achievements in 2019 when the tourism industry contributed 12.7 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), of which 10.8 percent came from domestic tourism.
Based on the National Tourism Development Plan (NTDP) 2016-2022 or the blueprint of the national government’s tourism goals, the DoT was supposed to aim for 9.2 million foreign visitor arrivals this year, with inbound revenue projected at P661 billion and generating around six million jobs.
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But the projections made did not fit the disasters and conflicts brought by 2020.