August 16, 2024 | 12:00am

In almost 37 years of living in the Philippines, my beloved wife Karen has tried her best to get her side of the family in the Netherlands to come and visit the Philippines. She extended repeated invitations, shared photos after photos, offered free food and accommodations as well as land travel arrangements, etc.

For her effort, her dad visited twice, her brother and sister came once and her brother in-law visited twice, once for tourism and once for work. Miracles upon miracles, she finally got her nephew and his fiancée to visit just before Christmas 2023. But that was after she threatened to disown the whole lot and not come home to the Netherlands.

In the past, we thought it was all about funds and costs of…

New Delhi: India will be hosting the Third Voice of the Global South Summit (VOGSS) on August 17 at a time of geopolitical churning with the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars continuing to rage adding to the already existing global challenges of food and energy security and climate change.

As was the case in the first two summits held in January and November of 2023 during India’s G20 presidency, this time, too, the summit will be held in a virtual format. The VOGSS is an initiative launched by India to bring together countries from the Global South to discuss shared challenges and priorities. It emphasises the importance of South-South cooperation, where developing countries can collaborate, share resources, and support each other’s development goals. It seeks to build…

Updated on: August 15, 2024 14:29 IST

Canadian Blood Services is hoping more donors can continue to donate blood at another upcoming event.

Mount Forest will host a blood donation clinic at the Mount Forest Recreation Complex on Tuesday, September 3 from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m.

According to Canadian Blood Services, current donations are “falling short of hospital demand for blood and plasma, which could cause the national supply to dwindle.”

The data shared by CBS shows that 1 in 2 Canadians are eligible to give blood, yet only 1 in 76 actually does.

New donors of all blood types are needed but it is particularly vital that people with group O-negative, O-positive or B-negative donate as soon as they can.

To donate, you can book an appointment now by downloading the GiveBlood app, calling 1 888 2 DONATE (1-888-236-6283) or booking…

Types of web hosting

As a small business owner, you’ll probably start with shared hosting or WordPress hosting due to their affordable and easy-to-use nature.

Shared hosting splits one web server’s resources — like bandwidth and data storage — between many websites. This limits how much content — like blog posts and landing pages — your site can store and how many monthly visitors it can handle, but it also makes shared hosting affordable. Low-cost shared hosting plans can usually accommodate up to 10,000 monthly visitors, while high-end plans can typically handle up to 400,000.

WordPress hosting is (typically shared) hosting optimized for WordPress, a content management system — CMS — for creating and organizing blog posts and other site content. This includes…