Monthly Archives: April 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party (LP) vice presidential candidate Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II said the Philippine economy needs no magic formula to grow and improve.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—The Central Negros Electric Cooperative will consult local government leaders before tapping temporary replacement power to mitigate frequent power outages because this would cost consumers P1.40 more per kilowatt hour.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos are the least likely to end a business relationship despite bad customer service compared with counterparts in three other Southeast Asian countries, an online survey by a Singaporean firm found.

Former President Joseph Estrada, the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer, yesterday expressed sheer frustration over the current power crisis the country is being hit with, what with daily two-hour brownouts being experienced in Metro Manila and, worse, with longer brownouts in Mindanao and the Visayas.

CEBU, Philippines – The Cebu City Police Office will file criminal charges against the owner of the construction firm, employer of the five construction workers who died in last Tuesday’s tragedy in barangay Tisa.

BLOGGER Pierre Tito Galla said many candidates are often caught off-guard by the kinds of questions that come up in these meet-and-greets, having gotten used to the “chummier” and more deferential questions of traditional journalists.

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Based on a United Nations data, approximately 2.3-million liters of water is used daily by an 18-hole golf course.

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More than 500,000 Filipinos overseas are expected to troop to Philippine polling stations abroad for the national elections beginning April 10 to May 10.

HOUSEHOLDS and businesses in Metro Manila and Luzon are likely to continue suffering blackouts for the next two weeks and must pay more for the power they consume.

THE court has approved a request of the military for the transfer of 38 of the 43 suspected New People’s Army (NPA) previously arrested in Morong, Rizal at Camp Crame in Quezon City while the remaining rebels will stay at a military camp.

MANILA, Philippines – There will be no announcement of salary increase on Labor Day on May 1, but workers may expect non-wage benefits, according to the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC).

MANILA, Philippines – Auto sales went up by a strong 35.5 percent to 38,709 units during the first three months of this year from a year ago level, the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. (CAMPI) reported yesterday.

There is no danger of asset bubbles forming in the Philippines, unlike in other countries in the region, but the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) should raise rates within a year so asset prices will not surge to dangerous levels, an economist from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp (HSBC) said.

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MANILA, Philippines – There will be no announcement of salary increase on Labor Day on May 1, but workers may expect non-wage benefits, according to the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC).

MANILA, Philippines – With only a few weeks left before the elections, six out of 10 Filipinos are still unaware of the party-list system, a latest survey by Pulse Asia revealed yesterday.

The five construction workers killed when the fire wall of the Gaisano Capital building they were constructing collapsed were not wearing hard hats and had no safety harnesses when they were dug out of the rubble, the Cebu City Disaster Coordinating Council (CCDC) said in its initial report.

BATANGAS CITY, Philippines – A security officer died and 10 others were injured, when a group of vendors tried to resist the demolition of the old public market in Cuenca town, Batangas, Thursday morning, police said.

Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad yesterday criticized the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) Party-list for making Anflo Management and Investment Corporation (Anflocor) executive vice president Anthony Sasin its second nominee.

IF the Philippines is to compete in a globalized world and achieve sustainable growth in the medium term, World Bank Regional Chief Economist in East Asia and the Pacific Vikram Nehru said the country must invest heavily not just in infrastructure, but in human capital.

THE Philippines has had eight years of financial-sector reforms that benefited mostly the large commercial banks, but not enough of them for the smaller thrift and rural banks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report published this month.

DAVAO CITY – The outsourcing industry in the country should now frame a national strategic plan with the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) to capture the likely huge opportunity opened for transcription and other medical outsourcing companies after US President Barack Obama signed on March 23 the health-care reform bill.

LONDON – It’s been a dream for many nursing graduates in the Philippines to work in the United Kingdom.

MANILA, Philippines – Former energy secretary Angelo Reyes is one of eight alleged allies of President Arroyo who could win a seat in the House of Representatives as nominees of party-list groups with links to the Arroyo administration, results of the latest Pulse Asuia survey revealed Thursday.

While bright spots are evident in the economy, social indicators for the Philippines remain weak underlined by the hunger incidence that reached record highs late last year, the World Bank (WB) said in a report on East Asia released yesterday.

DAVAO CITY – For televangelist Apollo Quiboloy, the presence of anti-communist partylist leaders, retired Major General Jovito Palparan and Pastor “Jun” Alcover, is a spark plug that could blow up and burn down the city.

An employee of a call center specializing in travel services complains that the company has not released his back pay, including his last pay, 13th month pay and tax refund for 2009.

CEBU, Philippines – Summer is definitely here and has brought with it intense heat which is expected to peak this April, the season’s soaring temperatures aggravated by the onslaught of El Niño.