PH, UK deepens collaboration on climate, biodiversity priorities

THE PHILIPPINES and the United Kingdom have agreed to deepen their collaboration across climate and biodiversity priorities.

Surgeons successfully perform UK's 1st womb transplant

IN A groundbreaking medical milestone, a surgical team in Oxford successfully performed UK's first womb transplant on Wednesday.

Spike in Covid cases worries Duterte

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte called on the public to strictly follow the health protocols after noting the sudden surge of COVID-19 cases in Europe as a result of complacency.

Duterte to get more loans

THE PHILIPPINES continues to sink in debts the government trumpeted fresh loans running into billions of pesos to fund the purchases of anti-Covid vaccines and other responses to the pandemic.

Zambo PUI casualty is negative for Covid-19: Officials

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A woman who was tested for coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, and eventually died in hospital days after being admitted, was negative for the respiratory disease after test results came out Wednesday, officials said.

Zambo announces first PUI death

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A local woman tested for coronavirus after showing symptoms of the dreaded disease has died, government and health officials announced Sunday.

ARMM holds 1st Bangsamoro Datathon

COTABATO CITY - The Regional Planning and Development Office (RPDO-ARMM) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) spearheaded a three-day Bangsamoro Datathon here.
The Bangsamoro Datathon (data + marathon) is a series of support processes in service of the transition from the ARMM to Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The exercise covered open data, open street mapping, and benchmark data.

The project is aimed consolidating and evaluating available administrative, statistical, and framework geospatial data of the ARMM and existing development plans and studies; comprehensive data inventory and consolidation required to build a baseline for the shift from the ARMM to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority this year; focus on development data, not human resource data (assets, liabilities, and personnel); train analysts and other officers of the ARMM regional government and the incoming Bangsamoro Transition Authority on basic geospatial analysis; and encourage the practice of open data in the context of open governance in the Bangsamoro.

The initial dataset was for Marawi City and Lanao del Sur for the first quarter of 2018. Later, the ARMM Regional Government worked with its different line agencies to also try updating the Regional Physical Framework Plan and the five Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plans in preparation for the transition to the incoming new Bangsamoro government.

During the recent activity, an overview and inventory of all the data, place-based analysis, and geographical data generation and cleaning were conducted. “This project marks the Bangsamoro as the first region in the Philippines to have an open geospatial and statistical portal for development planning and programming,” Baintan Adil-Ampatuan, RPDO-ARMM executive director, said.

The datathon was successfully conducted with the support of all ARMM line agencies, provincial governments of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao, Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, National Economic and Development Authority, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, and the technical working staff of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.

It was financed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and The Asia Foundation. (Bureau of Public Information)

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British firms eyeing opportunities in Visayas

BRITISH COMPANIES are now eyeing business opportunities in Visayas as they a set trade and investment mission to Iloilo next month. British Chamber of Commerce Philippines (BCCP) Chris Nelson said the business group is organizing the business mission to Iloilo from March 8-9 in line with the British Embassy’s Great Festival.

Nelson said BCCP targets to bring in 50 firms based in the United Kingdom as delegates to the business mission in the Visayas. He cited British companies that are interested to tap opportunities in the country's infrastructure sector, be it transport infrastructure or ports, among others.

This is in line with the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build Program which accelerates infrastructure projects across the country. The BCCP chief considers the Visayas a new growth opportunity area for UK firms as this part of the country is expected to grow 7.7 percent to 8.3 percent in the next five years.

Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that from January to September 2017, approved investments in investment promotion agencies from UK companies increased by 10.9 percent to P4.79 billion from P4.32 billion in the same period in 2016. (Kris Crismundo)

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