Monthly Archives: May 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Four Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines, were listed in the top 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region as source of Internet threats.

WASHINGTON – PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Friday said Americans were flooding back into the job market as the economy slowly improved after a barn-busting report showed 290,000 jobs were created in April.

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While living in the United States, I often saw or heard radio and TV commercials concerning “Drunk Driving”. To this day I distinctly remember the commercials warning us about how drunk driving kills people and how choosing not to drink and drive can save lives.

Today is the day the nation goes to the polls. This is judgment day that the sovereign people have long been waiting for. This is the day when they will choose the leaders whom they believe will resolutely carry out the much needed changes in government they have been dreaming of after almost ten years…

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly nine in 10 Filipinos say they will vote according to their conscience and are unlikely to be swayed by endorsements or political machinery, a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – Environment Secretary Horacio Ramos yesterday called for meaningful multi-sectoral participation in forest management, which will enable the country to achieve self-sufficiency in its forest product requirements.

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign investors have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, putting on hold or temporarily withdrawing their investments in the Philippines due to jitters over today’s elections, according to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo.

MANILA, Philippines – All is set for today’s automated elections. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday reported that preparations for the country’s first fully automated elections were 98 percent complete.

One of my favorite questions when I interview job applicants is, “How did you find out about our company?” This innocent question sounds simple enought to answer, but out of the many questions that I ask, this one has allowed me to uncover the qualities and competence of the many people I interview.

CANDIDATES ON EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL FUTURE Public investments in our human capital are East Asia’s most meager. The Jesuit Bienvenido Nebres calls the government’s neglect of adequate basic, elementary education for the great majority of our people “our immense and yet largely invisible failure.”

The A lternative Mining Bill (AMB), a.k.a. House Bill 6342, or the Philippine Mineral Resources Act of 2009, is a proposed policy to scrap the Mining Act of 1995 and introduce a new mining policy, which is anchored on land and natural resources management and human rights-based approach. The bill aims to regulate the rational…

MANILA, Philippines – A village guard allegedly shot dead his colleague for reporting late for work in Quezon City Friday night.

MANILA, Philippines—The month-long overseas absentee voting is about to come to an end. Yet, the initial turnout tells of the statistical impossibility of even coming close to a passing percentage. It is a far cry from the government’s confident target of 60 to 70 percent.

(FIRST OF TWO PARTS) Rotating brownouts during sweltering summer months. Electricity price spikes at the spot market. And yes, there’s a Department of Energy (DoE) that failed in planning. Familiar scenes? Well, that was the State of California in the past decade before it hurtled into its monumental power market deregulation failure.

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MANILA – Philippines – The number of overseas absentee voters has exceeded the voter turnout of 81,732 in 2007 to 118,053 for this year’s elections.

PHILIPPINE Airlines has agreed to suspend its plan to outsource non-core services that would lay off more than 3,000 workers after meeting with the airline’s union officials Friday, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said.

As a voter in my barangay in Metro Manila, I was delighted to receive yesterday an official sample ballot for the national elections on May 10.

MANILA, Philippines – It’s a go for Monday’s polls after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected yesterday separate petitions of former President Joseph Estrada and the Concerned Citizens’ Movement (CCM) to suspend automation and shift to a manual counting of votes.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) last night declared the Liberal Party (LP) of presidential candidate Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino as the dominant minority party in Monday’s automated elections.

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 364 foreign observers and 159 foreign journalists have registered with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to monitor the country’s first automated polls on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) is mobilizing 3,664 public school teachers nationwide to do the random manual audit (RMA) at precincts all over the country on Monday, election day.

ACTOR ROBIN PADILLA, THE “Bad Boy of Philippine Movies” is being sued for actively endorsing condoms which a political party claimed is an affront to public sensibilities.

BACOLOD CITY—SUGAR PLANTATION WORKERS in Negros Occidental are being harassed into voting for the choice candidates of planters in yet another manifestation of how slave-like the workers’ conditions are.

In 2006, the ILO’s second Global Report on Child Labour showed that significant progress was being made in the fight against child labour . Encouraged by the positive trend, the ILO established a visionary target – to eliminate child labour in its worst forms by 2016. Four years on, the third Global Report paints a…

THE AKO BICOL Party (AKB) has snatched the top spot from the militant Bayan Muna among 13 party-list groups likely to secure at least one seat at the House of Representatives, a final BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey showed.

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The Philippines has secured a bigger sugar quota allocation to the US this year, according to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR).

MANILA, Philippines – Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) vice presidential candidate Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay has tied with Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II in the latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), while LP standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III widened his lead over his rivals, according to a…