Jollibee Foods Corp., popular in the Philippines for its sweet-style spaghetti and fried chicken, is exploring a bid for Britain's Pret A Manger which could value the upscale sandwich chain at over $1 billion, reports GMA News.
Manila is 10th among the most stressful cities in the world, according to a new study by UK-based dry-cleaning and laundry service Zipjet. The study analyzed 500 locations based on pollution, traffic levels, public transport, percentage of green spaces, financial status of citizens including debt levels, physical and mental health, among others, reports ABS-CBN News.
The Philippines has landed among countries with “darker and more dangerous” human rights situations, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Monday, reports Philstar.com..
Pitong Kabang Palay
A Filipino movie won the top plum at a women’s film festival in Japan. Maricel Cabrera-Cariaga’s “Pitong Kabang Palay” bagged the grand prize, the Golden Owl Award, at the 22nd Aichi International Women’s Film Festival, held in Nagoya, last Sept. 10, reports Inquirer.net.
DBS Bank Ltd. of Singapore sees the peso weakening further to a range of 52.50 to 53.30 to $1 next year as the Philippines is set to book its first current account (CA) deficit in 15 years this year, reports Philstar.com.
Dr. Cedric Ortiguera (Source: Mayo Clinic)
A Filipino American doctor, Dr. Cedric J. Ortiguera, recently performed the first robotic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. The procedure was also the first to be done in all of Northern Florida, report Inquirer.net.
About 5,000 young Filipinos along with 800,000 other undocumented immigrants face the prospect of deportation unless Congress legitimizes their stay in the United States following President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, reports Philstar.com.
More than 40 percent of parent drivers in Asia said they or someone whom they know had experienced a near miss while using mobile phone behind the wheel, a recent study by Ford Philippines showed, reports GMA News.
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