2 June 2020 – MBC, in partnership with the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office, hosted a digital forum with Ambassador Michael Hsu, Dr. Mei Shang Ho (Academia Sinica), and Dr. Ted Chang (Quanta Computer, top three contract manufacturer of computers, cellphones, etc.) to expound on Taiwan’s COVID-19 response and road to recovery.
28 May 2020 – As the number of COVID-19 cases hits 5.4 million globally, the race is on to find treatments and a vaccine. At the joint MBC-USABC event “Crisis Mode R&D”, the Philippine heads of three global pharmaceutical companies — Beaver Tamesis of MSD; Jean-Antoine Zinsou from Sanofi Pasteur; and Zainab Sadat of GSK — shed light on the challenges of vaccine research and development in crisis-mode.
22 May 2020 – MBC held the fourth session of the COVID-19 Knowledge Series with the National Resilience Council, ARISE Philippines, and Zuellig Family Foundation. The digital forum featured a keynote presentation from Governor Benjamin Diokno (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) on macroeconomic recovery and national resilience post-COVID.
20 May 2020 — The pandemic is forcing leaders to respond quickly to a huge and growing list of problems. Government officials rush to provide healthcare, food and shelter and information to anxious, quarantined citizens. With so much ground to cover, the government struggles to keep up.
14 May 2020 – MBC, in partnership with the US Embassy and Philippines-US Business Council, hosted a digital forum with US Ambassador Sung Kim to discuss COVID-19 outreach activities and economic outlooks.