Statistics and the Internet

An officemate forwarded a link to Internet Usage and Statistics in Asia from Internet World Stats. Data presented there collates internet usage against population figures of each asian nation to derive the percentage of the population using the internet, the percentage of the population of internet users among the internet users in Asia and the [...]

Modern-day Trends

IT Anyone?
While the IT-sector of the Philippine economy has undoubtedly grown, I never thought the figure’s currently pegged at 400,000 related jobs from 8,000 last 2000. That is if co-Chairman of the National Competitiveness Council, Cesar B. Bautista is to be believed.
In an Infotech article written at PDI today, he spoke of a positive outlook [...]

The Week’s Worth Elsewhere

Plowing Through Plowshares
This view reminds me of a fact my former professor told our class once: Land Reforms and other agricultural programs’ benefits often have the flaw of not actually being felt by the most destitute farmers for whom the endeavors are supposed to be for. That Pakistani viewpoint highlights just how much the centuries-old [...]

Rise of the Lefties

Nope, nothing political here; just a research reported at Yahoo News indicating a rise in the number of left-handed persons today. If it is to be believed, it’s now at “about 11 percent of the population.”
I remember the same topic of a paper our written communications professor had as an example in tackling the exploratory [...]

Human Behavior Tidbits

Really stuff for the news entry previously, (only more dated that is.)
One of Four American Adults Read No Books Last Year
Not really surprising as far as I’m concerned. I think advances in technology has something to do with the dent on the amount of time people get to spend with books significantly. A lot has [...]

Emerging Asia’s Innovation Edge

A business week article of the same title earlier this month focuses on the rapid rate of development of Asia powerhouses China and India. Important points from a report Gartner released days before include:

China is fast becoming the global leader in research. In 2005 as the report mentions, applications for patents in China outnumbered those [...]

On Human Trafficking

If the U.S. Justice Department is right, Human Trafficking is the third largest criminal enterprise worldwide. According to United Nations Development Fund for Women Executive Director Noeleen Heyzer, human trafficking generates an estimated $9.5 billion per year in terms of profit. Furthermore, she says:
Trafficking of persons includes prostitution, debt bondage, forced labor and slavery, and [...]

Obesity is ’socially contagious’?

I’m not a big fan of the blame game but this Yahoo health tidbit roused an amount of interest anyway. The news bit focuses on obesity as something that’s “socially contagious.”
If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is “socially contagious” [...]

Capital Crossroads

An interesting study analyzes decision making based on the survey results regarding the youth’s outlook. Asked on several questions about school, career and marriage were young people from Albania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Iraq, Malaysia, Romania, and Tajikistan, and as such, is significant in policy making in the future. The questions included were:
Thinking of the years of [...]

The Eight Commandments

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) pertain to 8 items summarizing the pledges of world leaders at the New York headquarters of the UN in September 2000. After the halfway milestone towards the 2015 deadline was officially reached last July 7, The Economist assesses each of the points made then. Here’s the link to the [...]