Monthly Archives: March 2010

ROME, Italy – The “Patronato” or agencies helping migrants in Italy regarding immigration laws are busy informing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) about “Direct Hiring 2010” or “Milleproroghe”.

One of the world’s largest studies of the contraceptive pill has found that women who have taken it can expect longer lives and are less likely to die from any cause, including cancer and heart disease.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—Only 16% of the country’s total labor force will benefit from any legislated wage increases, Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr., chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), claimed on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Wealthy Filipinos spend more than rich Singapore and Hong Kong residents do, especially every month on groceries, travel and utilities payment, a survey by payments technology firm Visa International Inc. revealed.

MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank on Monday raised its 2010 economic growth forecast for the Philippines to 3.5% from 3.1% due to a recovering global economy and increased private consumption and public spending.

MANILA, Philippines—Chemical manufacturer CAWC Inc. has shut down its manufacturing plant in Pasig City after a fire hit the facility on Thursday, leaving two workers injured.

Berlin, Germany: The gathering in Berlin this week is for child protection experts and defenders of abused and sexually exploited children. I am here to represent the dedicated Filipinos and all others who have worked to protect children and bring their abusers to justice. The meeting, organized by ECPAT Germany has brought together experienced people…

SINGAPORE: Construction workers from Bangladesh, hotel staff from the Philippines, waitresses from China, shipyard welders from Myanmar, technology professionals from India—Singapore has them all.

Lakas-Kampi CMD presidential bet Gilbert Teodoro has presented ways that would allow mining operation to continue and help provide communities with livelihood without hurting the environment.

DAVAO CITY: Communist insurgents killed a gold mine worker and abducted his two brothers in a raid on a village in the southern Filipino province of Compostela Valley, security officials said on Sunday.

Dear PAO, I am graduating from college this March 2010 and I intend to work immediately after graduation. Our university sponsored a job week program and my classmates and I were able to submit our employment applications to prospective employers. I came across a list of requirements of one of the companies and it states…

Criminals, beware. It is not bad enough to be imprisoned for doing a crime since prisoners also have to endure the sickening situation of prison and detention centers in the Philippines, a US report said over the weekend. The US State Department 2009 Country Report on Human Rights Practices on the Philippines released Thursday (Friday…

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MANILA, Philippines – Two months before he leaves the Supreme Court (SC), Chief Justice Reynato Puno batted for further development of family courts that handle cases involving women and children.

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines — Still a biotechnology “mega-country”. The Philippines planted genetically modified (GM) corn in 450,00 hectares in 2009, sustaining its ranking in the league of the world’s biotech “mega-countries”.

My articles on artificial contraceptives never fail to elicit controversies. Sometimes there are even “violent” reactions that have nothing to do at all with the realities and the facts brought out and backed up by research and studies. Obviously these reactions come from people who could not accept anything contrary to what they have already…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) confirmed yesterday the existence of 700,000 double registrants nationwide.

LEGAZPI CITY, Albay, Philippines – Local government units’ (LGUs) should exercise political will in implementing best practices to stop the spread of HIV or the human immuno-deficiency virus, which leads to the fatal AIDS, an official of the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) said.

IS IT A TIE?: Postscript has questioned some partisans’ calling a “statistical tie” the close ranking of presidential bets Noynoy Aquino (36 percent, Liberal) and Manny Villar (34 percent, Nacionalista) in the Feb. 24-28 nationwide survey of the Social Weather Stations.

MANILA, Philippines – The ratio of bad loans of universal and commercial banks to the industry’s total loan portfolio improved in January after falling to its lowest level in 13 years last year on the back of the country’s resilient eco-nomy that enabled household and corporate borrowers to pay their outstanding financial obligations.

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang has expressed elation over the positive assessment it got from the US State Department on some aspects of the Philippine government’s handling of human rights cases but it acknowledged that much more could be done to prevent abuses by state forces.

SWS SURVEY MANILA, Philippines—Four of 10 registered voters, or 38 percent, will vote for candidates who favor the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, according to the latest Social Weather Stations survey.

Violence against women remains an all-too common crime, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines–Reviving the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant today or building new nuclear facilities would be the quickest solution to the shortage of electricity most felt in Mindanao and make power rates attractive to investors, according to Department of Energy officials here.

MANILA, Philippines – Majority of the so-called Morong 43 have no certification from the Department of Health (DOH) to qualify them as medical workers, police said yesterday.

WASHINGTON – It was tit for tat between government forces and rebel and terrorist groups last year. The US State Department, quoting military sources, said 219 members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and 227 insurgents were killed in action throughout the country. Additionally, 27 police and 23 insurgents died in other fighting.

MANILA, Philippines – Most Filipino voters will support candidates who favor the Reproductive Health (RH) bill in the May 10 elections, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The United States assailed yesterday the Philippine government for failing to implement the law imposing criminal penalties for corrupt officials that encouraged graft practices with impunity.

THE Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry called on the government Friday to review the merits of nuclear power as a long-term option to address outages in the country.

SOME 87 percent of Filipinos will vote for a presidential candidate who advocates a reproductive health program, while 64 percent will elect one who promotes modern methods of family planning, a new survey shows.