Monthly Archives: April 2010

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AMERICAN companies are expected to infuse more investments in the Philippines after the May 10 national elections, the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines said Wednesday.

Chairman Emmanuel Y. Angeles of the Commission on Higher Education in a follow-up orientation met on April 15 60 chairmen and members of the Technical Panels for Health Related Programs, Information Technology Education and Science and Mathematics. Chairman Angeles presented his plan for Philippine Education for the next 6 years (2010 to 2016) and labeled…

AMID the scramble to get a piece of the Export Support Fund (ESF), the government on Thursday said the promised state aid for exporters no longer exists.

The Philippines could ship more sugar to the US, after the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) reallocated to 25 countries this fiscal year’s unused quota on imported raw cane sugar.

MANILA, Philippines – The military is planning to file before international bodies a complaint against the communist insurgents who launched a landmine attack that killed four policemen in Antipolo City, Rizal last Tuesday.

REPUBLIC Act 10055, or the Philippine Technology Transfer Act of 2009, was signed into law days before the recess both in the Senate and the House of the Representatives.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is one of six major energy-using countries in East Asia that could stabilize their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 without compromising growth, according to a new World Bank report.

MANILA, Philippines – Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate and former defense secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr., and Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino former President Joseph Estrada are dominating mock polls in Metro Manila’s slum districts, newly-formed “Green Army Brigades” (GAB) bared yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly six of every 10 Filipinos or 59 percent disapprove of President Arroyo’s performance, her highest disapproval score since March 2001, according to a survey by Pulse Asia.

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 hit ECOP over wage hike The Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP) reiterates its call for approval of a P75 across-the-board wage hike in NCR pending before the…

In a previous column, I mentioned that we made a study and conducted a workshop on the barriers to the entry of foreign investments in the Philippines. I’ll expound further on one topic we took up—infrastructure—and our recommendations on how to get more investments into the sector.

JAKARTA – Thousands of furious Indonesian factory workers set fire to cars and a warehouse Thursday after an Indian company executive called them “stupid,” police and media reports said.

UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE I thought at first it was a joke. “The European Union [EU] has declared traveling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers’ dollars” for the poor, the elderly, for young people ages 18 to 25, for the disabled and others with undefined social distresses, the press…

It’s very true, as the National Economic Development Authority warns, the Philippines will be hurt economically by the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan (which still calls itself the ROC or Republic of China). The ECFA draft could be be signed in June.

KEY ISSUES AND RESPONSES ON THE REALIZATION OF FOA, CB AND LABOR LAW IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC ZONES By LIKHA-TUCP President and TUCP Vice President JESUS VILLAMOR 22 April 2010, PHINMA Training Center, Tagaytay City Key issues and responses on the realization of FOA, CB and labor law implement in the Philippine ecozones, LIKHA-TUCP…

Dear PAO, I am a new business owner with a staff of four. My questions are: 1) Am I exempted from paying holiday pay since my business is a service establishment? 2) If I am not exempted, how much will I pay to my employees during regular holidays? 3) What are the regular holidays in…

THE Philippine government was the third-largest recipient of loan assistance among Southeast Asian countries from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) last year to counter the global economic crisis.

CEBU, Philippines – Kilusang Bagong Lipunan vice-presidential candidate Jose “Jay” Sonza suggested to rename the Reproductive Health Bill into Population Management Bill saying that the title is too sensitive that it had caused a controversy.

CEBU, Philippines – Criminal charges were filed yesterday against employees of CYC Construction in relation to the collapse of a firewall of a mall undergoing construction, which killed five workers about two weeks ago.

SAN FRANCISCO – A Filipino shipyard worker, along with his union and supporters, launched a protest in San Francisco for being unjustly fired because of his sexual orientation.

KABACAN, Cotabato , Philippines  — There is “education poverty” in underdeveloped areas of the country for which the government must allocate more funds, according to Sen. Edgardo Angara.             

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine-proposed bill “Save Our Industries Act of 2010” which is expected to save the ailing local garments industry has been filed in both Houses of the US Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgraded anew the Philippines’ economic outlook but the country is still expected to be the laggard in terms of economic growth among Southeast Asian countries this year.

MANILA, Philippines – Nacionalista Party (NP) senatorial candidates vowed to push for an increase in the minimum wage in order to reflect the rise in the cost of living.

PRIORITY AREAS the next administration should tackle within its first 100 days in office were identified yesterday by the country’s largest employers’ group at the conclusion of its annual conference.

It is getting harder and harder to find work these days. College graduates have found that their opportunities are limited. The situation is much worse for those who only have a high school education — the chances of finding the job they want are very slim. The problem seems to be that more people enter…

LONDON—The International Monetary Fund has proposed two new global taxes on banks and other financial institutions to cover the cost of future bailouts, the BBC reported.

FERNANDO Zobel de Ayala, chairman of Manila Water Inc., and other officials of the company were sued before the Quezon City Prosecutors’ Office after a car fell into a road excavation in an on-going project.

THIRTY-TWO party-list organizations remain unrecognized by the Commission on Elections because of unresolved cases, less than three weeks before the May 10 polls, the commission said Tuesday.