Despite having a highly-skilled, English-speaking workforce, a favorable geographical location in a region that has seen the fastest growth rates in the world, and efforts to improve the ease of doing business in the country, the Philippines still placed second to last among 14 Asia-Pacific economies in terms of attractiveness to foreign direct investments (FDIs), as ranked by the UK-based think tank Oxford Economics. In the latest FDI attractiveness scorecard released last Oct. 11, the Philippines
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — While driving along the main street in Barangay Bula here after my usual weekly grocery run over the weekend, I could not help but notice something dismal inside Police Precinct 6: 30 individuals were crammed in the tiny and dingy detention area. In a report for Rappler last Saturday, General Santos City-based journalist Rommel Rebollido wrote that the precinct’s temporary detention cell is designed for 15 people. But even with only 15 people in it, maintaining physical distance in this time of a pandemic is quite the huge challenge. With 30 people jampacked inside the small detention
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