BusinessWorld
May 19, 2021 | 2:40 pm
MICROSOFT CORP. has partnered with JA Asia Pacific and CloudSwyft to provide a skilling program for young jobseekers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Of the targeted 60,000 participants this year, 4,000 will be from the Philippines. Â
âCOVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards a digital economy, and organizations here in the Philippines are requiring greater digital skills from talents so that their businesses can adapt and thrive in this new environment,â said Andres Ortola, Microsoft Philippines general manager, in a recent statement.Â
The new program is an extension of Microsoftâs broader Global Skilling Initiative, which reported last month that over 150,000 Filipinos had gained digital skills via its online courses, to be offered until the end of 2021.Â
5 senators file reso urging Malacañang to withdraw EO reducing rice tariff to 35% By HANA BORDEY, GMA News
Published May 19, 2021 6:14pm Five senators on Wednesday filed a resolution urging Malacañang to withdraw Executive Order 135 which reduces the rice tariff from 40%-50% to 35% for one year. Under Senate Resolution 726, Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Senators Nancy Binay, Leila de Lima, Risa Hontiveros, and Francis Pangilinan said there is “no reasonable and sufficient basis to reduce the tariff rates on rice and it will only cause more burden to our local rice farmers, further increase our import dependency, and cost the government millions in foregone revenues.”
BusinessWorld
May 19, 2021 | 8:37 pm
ABOUT 1.053 million registrants have completed the first phase of electronic registration for the national ID, formally known as the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys), after two weeks, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Wednesday.
The PSA said the online registrants signed up between April 30, the digital portal’s launch, and May 17.
Meanwhile, 103,935 Philippine Identification (PhilID) cards have been distributed to those who completed the three-step registration as of May 15, it said. The cards were delivered by the Philippine Postal Corp.
“We remain optimistic that we can register 50 to 70 million Filipinos to the PhilSys this year,” PSA Undersecretary Dennis S. Mapa said in the statement.
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BusinessWorld
May 20, 2021 | 12:36 am
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PHILIPPINE EXPORT performance continues to lag behind a global rebound led by East Asia, a United Nations (UN) report said.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) global trade update released on Tuesday said global trade in goods have surpassed pre-pandemic levels, although services trade continues to lag.
“Global trade is expected to further rebound in Q2. For 2021, global trade is projected to grow by 16 percent, but the outlook remains uncertain,” the report said.
Much of trade resilience last year was due to East Asian pandemic mitigation, UNCTAD said.
“The positive trends from the last few months of 2020 grew stronger in early 2021. In Q1 2021, the value of global trade in goods and services grew by about 4 percent quarter-over-quarter and by about 10 percent year-over-year,” UNCTAD said.