Monthly Archives: August 2009

Gone are the days when social cause and profit orientation occupied opposite ends of a tense rope.

Next to improving the intelligence quotient of students, the Department of Education (DepEd) is also focusing on enriching the emotional quotient of learners to support its effort to inculcate the value of cultural heritage among the youth.

The erstwhile delayed salaries would be given soon to the 300 Filipino construction workers in Maldives, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported over the weekend.

Three lawmakers sought to amend the watered-down version of the Cheaper Medicines Law with the inclusion of the Drug Price Regulatory Board (DPRB), which would put a cap on all types of medicine.

WASHINGTON (AFP): The US economy showed signs of emerging from a long and brutal recession, according to data on Friday showing a narrower-than-expected  1.0% decline in output in the second-quarter.

MANILA, Philippines – It never occurred to this urban poor women’s cooperative, or this guild of construction workers, that they would win orders from big companies.

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The Pamilyang Overseas Filipino Workers-Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Network Foundation Inc. (POFW) urged yesterday the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, as well as the members of the POFW, to attend the Philippine Business and Entrepreneurs Expo (PBEX) 2009 which will be held today, July 29 to Aug. 2 at the SM Megatrade Hall…

Thousands of workers, mostly from malls and small retailers in Binondo, Quiapo, Sta. Cruz in Manila, and Baclaran in Parañaque may lose their jobs due to “unwarranted raids” on these small businesses by government agents, the Department of Labor and Employment yesterday said.

Police in Cordon town, Isabela province have found the bodies of two small-scale miners who have gone missing inside a mine in the said town since Tuesday.

SEPARATIST group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has agreed to remove child soldiers from its ranks, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef)-Philippines reported Friday.

BACOLOD City: The ongoing debate regarding the anti-genetically modified organisms ordinance gets heated with both sides getting emotional and some activists walking-out at the marathon en banc hearing at the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol on Thursday.

CONSUMPTION growth may have improved in the second quarter of this year because of higher school expenses, sustained remittances, and easing worries by businesses, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

So you’re stuck with a “jerk boss” but you need the job or you are a “jerk boss” yourself and want to atone for your misdeeds. What to do?

THREE more foreign business process outsourcing (BPO) firms will open their Manila operations soon, an industry official said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines — Supreme Court justices have expressed some doubt about the reliability of the automated election system that a foreign company would be supplying for the 2010 first-ever computerized election in the country.

100,000 workers displaced since October THE AVERAGE compensation of a worker in the manufacturing sector slightly grew by 0.8 percent in the first quarter, despite thousands of jobs reportedly lost at the height of the global financial crisis, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

MANILA – ASIA’S economic growth and social order is being threatened by a lack of equality that has seen hundreds of millions of people left in poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Thursday.

CEBU, Philippines – Majority of the members of the Visayan Electric Company Employees Union-ALU-TUCP voted “yes” to a strike against the management whom they accused of committing an unfair labor practices and harassment.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that rising public debt of the major developed countries could undermine efforts to spur economic recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – The government has lifted the limit of hectarage for banana export plantation, following the recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) board.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino nurses are now shying away from the United States because of the prevailing financial crisis there.

MANILA, Philippines—Three high school students from an award-winning math guild won for the country a silver and two bronze medals in the recently concluded 6th China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad (CSMO) in Nanchang.