Monthly Archives: February 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Globe Telecom, a premier telecommunications services provider in the Philippines, expects the total broadband market in the country to continue its robust growth, reaching four to five million users by year’s end.

How do the presidential candidates differ and agree on what concerns the president elected in the May elections must focus on?

Dear PAO, I am a part-time teacher in a computer school here in Negros Occidental. I am usually paid on an hourly basis for my work. For five years now, I have not received any 13th month pay. I thought this is ok until I read the Labor Code of the Philippines stating that the…

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MANILA, Philippines – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stressed the importance for monetary authorities to maintain their accommodative policy stance and avoid premature exit to ensure sustained economic recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino sailors working on foreign vessels have remitted a total of $3.4 billion in 2009, up by 12 percent from $3.043 billion in 2008, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said yesterday.

New credit card law restricts bank tactics, but sent interest rates up and credit lines down NEW YORK (AP) — Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use.

Sectoral representation in Congress first started with the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, and at that period in congressional history, the sectoral representatives were appointed by Marcos.

Stressing no one enjoys the monopoly of representing the marginalized sectors, presidential son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo yesterday lashed back at party-list representatives who have been criticizing him over reports he is seeking a party-list seat in Congress, saying they too come from the privileged sector of the society.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said government appointees who will be chosen as nominees of party-list groups participating in the May 10 polls should also resign from their posts.

Bagumbayan vice presidential bet Bayani Fernando said poor engineering and the incompetence of government officials are to blame for the frequent power outages nationwide.

The apparent lack of access to reproductive health services in the Philippines hampers development, according to an envoy.

PERHAPS because the President and the First Gentleman are from sugar-farming provinces, the Arroyo administration worked successfully to defer implementation  of zero tariff on sugar trading within the Asean Free Trade Area.

The country’s forest area had expanded by 33 percent in the past nine years, the top official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo will not stop Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral from distributing contraceptive pills amid strong opposition from the Catholic Church and other sectors, deputy presidential spokesperson Charito Planas said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The height of hypocrisy and utmost arrogance. Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo scoffed yesterday at allegations of some party-list lawmakers that he is not from the marginalized sector.

MANILA, Philippines – Party-list groups joining the May 10 elections have until March 26 to submit their list of nominees, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.

THE National Economic and  Development Authority (NEDA)  on Friday said the Philippines’ economic growth target this year would remain despite expectations of a hard hit from the El Niño phenomenon.

SIGNS of recovery at the world’s second-biggest economy led Asian stock markets higher on Friday.

Students and youth groups are gearing up for a huge protest action against tuition and other school fee increase while public and private schools gear up for protests against tuition and other fee increases.

MANILA, Philippines – At least 97 medicines will be sold at half their original prices starting March 31, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral announced Friday.

Malacañang, apparently defying the country’s influential bishops, on Thursday said that it would allow the Department of Health (DOH) to continue with free distribution of condoms but that the agency could approach the Cabinet if it wanted to reconcile conflicting policies.

MANILA, Philippines – It was condoms on Valentine’s Day, and now it’s contraceptive pills. Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral clarified yesterday that the government plans to give the contraceptive pills only to interested couples.

MANILA, Philippines – Businessmen are more optimistic that the domestic economy would recover from the worldwide economic slump this year on the back of moderate inflation, a steady stream of remittances from Filipinos abroad, election-related spending, and continued foreign investment inflows.

MANILA, Philippines – Majority of local companies said they will be increasing the wages of their employees this year, results of a survey conducted by Grant Thornton showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s imports surged by 17.9 percent to $3.89 billion in December 2009 from the same period in 2008, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday

MANILA, Philippines – Perhaps the end of 2009 couldn’t have come sooner as it did – putting behind a year of reeling from Ondoy and the lingering effects of the nefarious sub-prime bubble burst of 2007 – the latter truly a shot heard around the world.

DAVAO CITY (22 February) -Thirty trade union leaders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao completed recently the National Workshop on Productivity and Labor Management Cooperation (LMC), focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Collective Bargaining.

WAGE HIKES have been ruled out in the short term by the government, which cited the lack of price pressures and a still-recovering economy.

Banana growers in Davao have appealed to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo not to ban aerial spraying. According to them, aerial spraying in banana plantations should not be banned due to several reasons.