Local airlines maintain flights to virus-hit South Korea

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:48:37 +0000

FLAG carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Thursday said it still maintained the same number of regular flights to and from South Korea despite the two-way travel restrictions. “We still maintain the same number of flight frequencies for now. Shall let you know should we cut back on flight frequencies. At the very least, we may […]

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Canada welcomed more than 400,000 new international students in 2019

Credit to Author: Kareem El-Assal| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:53:48 +0000

Canada had yet another major year in international student recruitment as it approved 404,000 new study permits in 2019. A study permit is a document issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that allows foreign nationals to study at a designated learning institution in Canada. The number of study permits issued is a different […]

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PH bags $50-M SKorea loan for infra projects

Credit to Author: Mayvelin U. Caraballo, TMT| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:31:14 +0000

THE government has secured a $50-million (about P2.73 billion) loan from South Korea that would support the preparatory engineering services of key public works and irrigation projects. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd and Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) chief representative Sungho Jang exchanged the signed documents on the loan for the Philippines-Korea Project Preparation Facility (PKPPF) during a […]

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10 Cool Solar Power Stories You May Have Missed

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:23:12 +0000

Too much cleantech news is a good thing, but it sometimes means I need to stuff a bunch of big stories into one article. Following some roundups of autonomous driving news and battery & EV charging news, here’s one more roundup of some cool cleantech stories no one wanted to take and write full pieces about. This one is 100% focused on solar power

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100% WWS Part 3: Jacobson’s New Study Leans Into The Green New Deal

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:07:15 +0000

While Jacobson’s latest Stanford study on 100% renewables by 2050 will draw fire for leaning into the Green New Deal, it strongly supports that policy

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Hyundai Kona EV, Kia Niro EV, & Chevy Bolt Dominate South Korea Electric Vehicle Sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:14:30 +0000

The South Korean electric vehicle market doesn’t get the most attention, but it is bubbling up, with 2% of passenger vehicle sales in the country now EV sales. Similar to the USA, though, the market is dominated by just a few models

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