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What you need to know about buying cars during the COVID-19 pandemic

(Photos courtesy from Honda Cars Philippines, PGA Cars) For sure, the difficult commute to and from work in the Metro was made even more challenging by the outbreak of COVID-19. Aside from sanitation and social distancing, commuters still have to worry about limited public...

Between vaccines and variants

A woman walks past a mural depicting a white dove parachuting COVID-19 vaccine vials. The mural was found near the Italian Health Ministry Headquarters in Rome, Italy. Strict lockdowns and a short supply of vaccines continue to plague Europe, Asia, and Africa amid...

Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel

NEW YORK (AP) — one of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers. The Authors Guild Foundation announced Thursday that it had reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

Thai PM ends presser by spraying reporters with disinfectant

TOP PHOTO: Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha sprays alcohol mist on a front row of reporters sitting inside the press conference room at the Government house in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand (AP) — Politicians are often accused of sanitizing the news. Thailand’s Prime Minister...

COVID-19 and the Filipinos in Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria—there was no report of Filipinos getting infected with the coronavirus during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in this city. Until late summer of 2020, when I received a frantic phone call from my friend Cindy, granddaughter of Filipino hero, Dr. Pio...

My aunt and her Singer sewing machine

It was hidden for ages together with other stuff dumped in the utility room of our family home and forgotten, probably rusting—my aunt’s old Singer sewing machine. I have not thought about it until I built that little house connected to my primary...

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Go, girl

Apparently, Melania did not get along with one of her husband’s hires, a woman named Mira Ricardel, a deputy national security adviser who is...

Thai PM ends presser by spraying reporters with disinfectant

TOP PHOTO: Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha sprays alcohol mist on a front row of reporters sitting inside the press conference room at the...

Introducing Mission: PHL, the BusinessMirror’s Envoys & Expats Recognition Awards

Four years ago, in 2013, BusinessMirror—the broadsheet sister publication of the Philippines Graphic—started its Envoys & Expats section. It was designed to serve as...

Olympics Japan: The Surreal Games

After a yearlong delay and months of hand-wringing that rippled across a pandemic-inflected world, a Summer Games unlike any other is at hand. It’s...