Monthly Archives: April 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines needs to pour in more investments into infrastructure projects and develop other key sectors like creative industries and tourism, medical travel and retirement, to generate $75 billion in foreign direct investments (FDI) and 10 million jobs over the next 10 years.

MANILA, Philippines – As Nacionalista Party standard bearer Manuel Villar and Liberal Party presidential bet Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III have both been promising to service the poor once elected, the amounts spent by the top two campaign spenders exceed the budgets of government agencies helping the poor, the watchdog Pera’t Pulitika has observed.

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III has gained a double-digit lead over his fiercest rival, Nacionalista Party presidential bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” B. Villar, Jr., in the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey.

MANILA, Philippines – Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay and City Administrator Marjorie de Veyra were charged before Office of the Ombudsman for the dismissal of 138 casual employees of the city government.

MANILA, Philippines – College graduates – not necessarily those from the country’s top schools – are still preferred by most employers, a study done by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – If the prevailing power shortages will not be addressed today, the country will see a repeat of the power crisis in the early 90s, an international research firm said in a report.

Women who had hypertension during pregnancy are at increased risk for hypertension and stroke after 40 years of age, based on follow-up data from more than 4,000 women.

MANILA, Philippines – A visiting human rights expert said yesterday presidential candidates have failed to make a firm commitment to provide a comprehensive action plan to end unexplained killings and enforced disappearances.

MANILA, Philippines – Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Susan Ople called on Malacañang to look into the over P1 billion reportedly owed by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to several accredited skills training centers, accumulated under the leadership of former secretary Augusto Syjuco.

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Two construction workers were injured when the flooring at the fourth level of a call center building under construction at the Asiatown IT Park in Barangay (Village) Lahug here collapsed Saturday night.

Special handling can pay A common complaint among job seekers is that they didn’t get hired because they were overqualified. Now it turns out that may be a good reason.

THIS is in reaction to Kristine L. Alave’s news report titled “Voting populations improbably high; numbers don’t add up.” (Inquirer, 3/17/10) First, we wish to correct the information that the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) has a “census department” headed by Redencion Ignacio. Ignacio is a statistical coordination officer of NSCB’s Social Sector A Division.

THE poverty incidence in the Philippines has risen over the past two years following the global economic crisis and a series of devastating storms last year, according to a joint report by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund released Friday.

THE business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has received millions of pesos in financial support from the Philippine government in 2006, the country’s statistics agency said.

CEBU CITY – Although Cebu has topped last year’s survey as the world’s top emerging destination for outsourcing and off-shoring, an industry leader here bewails the lack of enough manpower in Cebu’s business process outsourcing (BPO) to meet growing demand in the sector.

DESPITE the economic recovery, the world’s top two multilateral lenders said that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for developing countries remains “worrisome.”

THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS HAS virtually declared the party-list system a “free market” to include the ruling elite. Given Comelec Chair Jose Melo’s very “mata-pobre” (condescending) opinion that marginalized groups do not have educated leaders who are capable of leading their organizations, the party-list system has ceased to be a legal and humane intervention for…

The latest Makati Business Club (MBC) survey has shown that a majority of the group’s members prefer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd to any of his rivals for the presidency, with Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. coming a far second.

ALMOST eight out of 10 Filipinos of  voting age believe that candidates  who will be elected on May 10 should also have an agenda for better health services by the government.

MORE than 30 percent of poor Filipinos own a cellular phone, but most of them do not have access to sanitary toilets and electricity, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

CEBU, Philippines – The Department of Health is urging the Department of Education to integrate sex education into the curricula in schools across the country focusing on the modes of transmission and prevention and control of Human Immunodeficiency-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-Aids).

MANILA, Philippines – A consumer advocate has urged Malacañang and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to investigate the huge price spikes at the country’s wholesale electricity spot market (WESM).

MANILA, Philippines – Investment bank Barclays Capital sees the amount of money sent home by Filipinos abroad growing by double-digit level this year due to a strong demand for skilled Filipino workers and the recovering global economy.

Capacity Building Seminar on the Freedom of Association, Collective Bargaining and Labor Law implementation in the Philippine Economic Zones Closing Message by FUR-TUCP Executive Vice President ARTURO BASEA 23 April 2010, PHINMA Training Center, Tagaytay City On behalf of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, our members, their families and our partners, I would…

When an employer says “flexible working” and “work-life balance,” they can mean something different from the employee’s definition.

The TUCP Party-List has called the Bureau of Customs incompetent and inutile in stamping out the rampant sugar smuggling that hurts the local sugar industry, most especially the poor sugar farmers and producers, a press release from the group said.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Thermal plants are still the best solution to the Mindanao power problem in the long run, Energy Secretary Jose C. Ibazeta said here on Monday during a consultation with stakeholders.

PRESS RELEASE HON. RAYMOND DEMOCRITO C. MENDOZA        April 23, 2010 Trade Union Congress Party-List (TUCP) TUCP-PGEA Compound, Maharlika cor. Masaya Streets, Diliman, Quezon City Tel/Fax: (632) 351-3757/924-7551 TUCP Party-List donated ambulances in Cebu The Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP), the largest worker’s party in the country recently donated one brand new Kia ambulance each…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines ranks fourth in Southeast Asia as one of the sources of Internet threats in the region and 10th in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ), according to a report by a software giant.

WASHINGTON – Delaying financial reform could put the global economic recovery at risk, a group of 24 developing nations warned on Thursday as they called for “vigorous” implementation of reforms.