Monthly Archives: May 2010

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…

TRADE Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged the government to seize the opportunities brought about by fresh cooperation forged by economically-thriving Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) sub-region and the countries of Japan and China even as the world recovers from the effects of the global financial crisis last year.

Goldman Sachs expects remittances from Filipinos overseas to grow 10 percent year-on-year this year, but they will be outpaced by revenues from the business process outsourcing in a few years.

Election spending should prop up domestic consumption that is crucial in stirring economic growth, according to the 2010 United Nations Economic and Social Survey (UN-ESCAP) Report of Asia and the Pacific stated.

The contribution to landfills from electronics will actually escalate until about 2015, but good news will follow, according to a report released Wednesday by Pike Research.

ACCORDING TO A STUDY MANILA, Philippines—Filipino temporary migrant workers tend to be younger and better educated than their domestic counterparts, a study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said.

LONDON–People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.

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WITH only six days to Election Day, the Commission on Elections and its technology provider Smartmatic International Corp. must replace the compact flash cards on 76,300 voting machines after many of them failed in testing Monday.

I’ve decided to give up my two Citibank credit cards—Visa and Mastercard. They charge more than 40 percent annual interest and penalties for late payment are compounded. Every now and then, too, I am made to pay these penalties.

With the oil platform explosion that killed 11 workers now is spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico as a sobering background, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates to the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference:

With the oil platform explosion that killed 11 workers now is spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico as a sobering background, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates to the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference:

With big cement companies in the Philippines starting to use alternative fuels and raw materials, the Environment Department has drawn the guidelines on the use of waste materials as production ingredients.

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Smartmatic admits glitches, errors; Testing junked, 76,000 flash cards recalled Six days before the precincts open for the electorate to cast their vote using the new system of automated polls, real fears of a total failure of elections and a no-election scenario surfaced yesterday as precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines tested virtually nationwide, all…

MANILA, Philippines – The government expects the economy to grow anywhere from 3.8 percent to 4.8 percent next year, buoyed by a recovery in exports and imports, according to the latest estimates made by the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC).

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, (TUCP), the country’s largest party-list of workers, has condemned the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for crafting and implementing the so-called “performance-based rate formula” which it claimed is the cause of skyrocketing prices of electricity.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven in 10 Filipinos approve of the Department of Health’s promotion of condom use to prevent the transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of 19 party-list organizations including thousands of urban poor residents in Tondo, Manila declared their support for administration candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr.

MANILA, Philippines – Fears of election failure intensified yesterday after some of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to be used by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) failed test runs in some parts of the country, prompting a stop to the testing and a recall of the machines.

Palace order expanding power subsidy outside ecozones being drafted EXPORTERS ARE SEEKING subsidized power costs for those operating outside economic zones, officials of a private-public sector group said.

EXCESSIVE government spending for election-related projects will trigger inflation and higher deficit, Nacionalista Party senatorial bet Gwen Pimentel warned on Friday.

Long before the myth of man-made global warming came on the scene, a more pervasive and potentially destructive idea began 200 years ago—the myth of overpopulation.

THE Climate Change Commission (CCC) recently forged ties with top ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigerating engineers in the country to promote “green infrastructure” by setting new standards on energy-efficient buildings and rating system to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission and combat global warming.

NONE of the above. That’s how many Filipinos responded recently when I asked who they planned to vote for in the May 10 presidential election. Their ambivalence seems equally directed at frontrunner Benigno Aquino III, his closest rival Manuel Villar, and Joseph Estrada, who’s third in surveys.

CEBU, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has come up with a policy wish list it wants voters to consider in casting their ballots on May 10.

THE Philippines, along with strife-torn Thailand, are unattractive destinations for global executives planning to invest in Southeast Asia this year, according to an international consulting firm.

Chastised, LP bet gives new spin to people power protest Former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada insisted yesterday he could cause a major upset and win next week’s presidential election, as he slammed the Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer for threatening a popular uprising if he loses the elections.

BY PERSIDA ACOSTA Dear PAO, I just want to know if I am entitled to have a separation pay even if I resigned because of personal reasons? I worked for 4 years in a private firm (trading company) in Makati City. Scorpio Girl