Italian ship owners need more than 20,000 seafarers and they want Filipinos for the job.
President Arroyo has created the Procurement Transparency Board (PTB) to ensure that all public sector contracts are aboveboard.
The US sees the Philippines as “weak” in enforcing laws against child labor.
Families of victims of enforced disappearances will now have a legal remedy more effective than the writ of habeas corpus to track down their missing kin.
The top biotechnology expert of the Department of Agriculture (DA) has reassured consumers that all genetically modified organisms (GMOs) approved for commercial release, whether for food, feed or processing, are safe and pose no health risks to consumers.