Monthly Archives: July 2009

Following the cancelation of the multi-million school feeding program, the Department of Education (DepEd) is now looking at other means to contribute to the health of public schoolchildren. 

It’s more expensive to maintain PCs that are more than three years old than buying new computers because of the system failures and security issues that are encountered, according to study done by Techaisle, a research firm. This was presented during the press meeting last June 3 held at the Intel office in Fort Bonifacio,…

AFTER Standard and Poor’s (S&P) kept its junk credit rating on the Philippines, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) asked investors to continue believing in the government.

MANILA, Philippines – Displaced workers at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) are to become entrepreneurs, as making businessmen out of workers who lose their jobs inside SBMA is the objective of an agreement entered into between SBMA and Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship (PCE).

MANILA, Philippines – Employment opportunities are getting brighter for jobless Filipinos and other health workers.

MANILA, Philippines—The bad news: As next year’s scheduled relocation of the United States military base from Okinawa, Japan to Guam gives Filipinos seeking overseas employment hope, they may not get priority for construction jobs, a recruitment specialist said Sunday.

NAGA CITY – Pushing their advocacy to put natural products in the mainstream market, practitioners of organic farming have opened a market here along the commercial strip of Magsaysay Avenue.

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign employers may find it more difficult to hire Filipino domestic helpers and other low skilled workers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It’s the national debt.

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – Six regions in the country have excellent wind resources that can be harnessed to help boost national development.

MANILA, Philippines – The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has ordered a total smoking ban in all state health facilities, schools and universities.

Special Report: Can RP cope with full-blown Novel A(H1N1) epidemic?

This entire week, I have been preoccupied with women’s health issues as media have focused on the health of national women leaders.

MANILA, Philippines – A lawmaker stressed yesterday the need for Congress to approve the Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) measure, saying that this would unify different laws and regulations on unit investments trust funds and investment companies.

FILIPINOS working abroad remitted an average of P83,000 to their families in the Philippines over a six-month period from April to September 2008, up by 10.7 percent from a year ago, according to the National Statistics Office.

A FILIPINO maid was grabbed by the hair, had her head pushed to the floor and was ordered to bow 100 times for serving up a partly cooked meal, the Tsuen Wan Magistrates Court was told yesterday.

AN environmental group asked anew the Department of Agriculture (DA) to protect the welfare of Filipino consumers and farmers by prohibiting genetically modified organisms (GMO) crops in the country. 

Contoversial ordinance was crafted to turn Negros into ‘organic bowl’ BACOLOD CITY: After months of debate and growing opposition to the anti-GMO (genetically modified organisms) ordinance recently implemented in the Province of Negros Occidental, Gov. Isidro Zayco finally asked the provincial board council to subject the said law under a “thorough review.”

THE Philippine government has tapped a US-based expert to shed light on the possible revival of the mothballed Bataan nuclear power plant.

FOREIGN businessmen have called on the Philippine government to reconsider the imposition of a maximum retail price (MRP) on medicines under Republic Act 9502, or the Act Providing for Cheaper and Quality Medicines.

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines—A Filipino worker at the shipbuilding company Hanjin has filed a complaint for frustrated murder against a Korean foreman who allegedly attacked him with a metal flashlight in the head and face while at work on June 23.

THE National Statistics Office (NSO) said laborers or unskilled overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were the biggest source of cash remittances, belying claims by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that highly-skilled Filipino workers were responsible for the bulk of money sent home.

ILOILO CITY, Philippines — The moment I picked up the phone and strained to hear the voice on the other line, I sensed trouble. From the little that I could hear, I gathered the man wanted to interview me for a home-based writing job for “Asia’s leading English language newspaper.”

Davao City (4 July) — Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (ALU-TUCP) founder Atty. Democrito Mendoza led the inauguration of the 6-storey Southern Mindanao Regional Office Building yesterday along M. Roxas St., Davao City.

SYDNEY (AFP) – People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.

PARIS—People who live alone in middle age face nearly double the risk of developing cognitive problems in later life compared with married or cohabiting counterparts, according to a study published Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has retained its stable outlook on the Philippines, indicating that the ratings are unlikely to change over the short term.

ON July 6, 2009, the US Agency for International Development, through its Growth with Equity in Mindanao Program, will launch two of its projects that will help cement Mindanao’s place among high-tech cities. These are the WiMax and JEEP programs that will help boost the BPO industry in Mindanao.

As WTO cuts trade forecast PRESSURE on the Philippine government to raise trade barriers mounted, as the World Trade Organization (WTO) warned of rising protectionism amid the economic crisis and sharply cut its forecast for trade volumes of developed and developing economies this year.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US private sector shed 473,000 jobs in June, a survey by payrolls firm ADP showed Wednesday, highlighting ongoing weakness in the labor market despite signs the economy is stabilizing.