Monthly Archives: July 2010

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THE Supreme Court (SC) estimates that by next year, all lower courts in Metro Manila should be using the computerized system in encoding, docketing and raffling of cases.

RETAIL PRICES in Metro Manila rose faster at 3.9 percent year-on-year in May, according to the National Statistics Office. According to the NSO, it was the fastest rate of rise since January.

How do you calculate the almost exact number of employees that an organization needs for business expansion as a result of an improved national economy? — Yellow Submarine.

WASHINGTON — Private recruitment agencies manage much of the flow of the 200,000 Filipino workers who head annually to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is the third largest destination for Filipino migrants after the United States and Saudi Arabia.

2012-2014 target also announced as BSP keeps policy rates unchanged INFLATION FORECASTS for 2010 and 2011 were cut anew yesterday by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which continued to keep policy rates unchanged as expected.

THE GOVERNMENT must increase infrastructure spending and cut red tape instead of beefing up investment incentives to improve the country’s attractiveness, the local partner of a Swiss-based competitiveness ranking body said in a forum on Friday.

THE Aquino administration has to arrest the 14-year deterioration in the Philippines’ competitiveness by aggressively improving the country’s infrastructure, particularly its power sector, according to the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Policy Center.

Dear PAO, I just have a concern regarding survivorship claim.  I want to ask if a common law wife of a pensioner has a right to claim the survivorship spouse claim or specifically survivorship pension? Here is the situation, my father was a pensioner. He was married to his first wife and had 4 siblings…

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has warned commercial establishments in Metro Manila to comply with the new minimum wage rates for their workers or face sanctions.

With only five years left into fulfilling the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, the agency has identified eradication of extreme poverty as an “endangered” goal for the country since most Asian nations “made significant progress in combating [extreme] poverty” except for the Philippines, an official of the United Nations Information…

More than 100 Filipinos, mostly in the Middle East and China, are facing death for committing various crimes, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday said.

The Department of Justice has issued a memorandum laying down the “standard operating procedure for prosecutors nationwide with respect to their disposition” of cases involving political and media killings.

BATANGAS , Philippines  – Two laborers were killed while seven others were injured when a steel scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in San Pablo City, Laguna yesterday morning, police said.

MANILA, Philippines – Investor sentiment in the Philippines rose for the fourth consecutive quarter to reach an all-time high in the April to May period, making the country the second strongest driver in the Asia Pacific region, a survey by Dutch financial giant ING showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said yesterday net inflow of foreign portfolio investments surged 245 percent in the first half of the year as investors gobbled up more government securities and pumped in more money into the local equities markets.

The Philippines will participate in the upcoming ministerial meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Vietnam where it will seek support from, and work together with ASEAN, in addressing national challenges under a new leadership.

WITH THE COMING OF THE rainy season, and images of the disaster caused by last year’s Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng still fresh on the minds of many, the government agencies tasked with relief operations are on their toes.

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – At least 700 workers here will lose their jobs after a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer announced the closure of one of its largest divisions in this free port.

IT IS not unusual to see, read or hear about environmental problems these days. Pollution has become so common that we appear resigned to the fact that this is part of modernization.

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UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration and 14 members of the U.S. Congress are urging the U.N. Economic and Social Council to accredit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission so it can work at the United Nations.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – The 30-minute blackout that hit the islands of Negros and Panay on Friday morning was triggered by the electrocution of an engineer employed by a subcontractor of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines.

Reducing the worst forms of child labor in the country is the goal of a new project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the International Labor Organization-International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC).

A tense situation is brewing at the port of Dumaguete where workers are raising some issues against the arrastre operator.

Sometime last year, the Supreme Court come out with a ruling penned by Associate Justice Presbiterio Velasco that banks and lending institutions, including those issuing credit cards, cannot and should not charge more than 2 percent monthly, or 24 percent annually, for interest.

Investor confidence in the second quarter reached levels unseen in two years based on the quarterly ING Investor Dashboard Sentiment Index which showed 157 points for the country in the second quarter, second only in the region to India which got a score of 172 in the survey.

BIG time drug companies led by Mercury Drug are depriving persons with disabilities (PWD) the 20-percent discount for their medicine purchase as mandated by law, a number of PWDs revealed Thursday.

Senator cites loss of P100B in last 2 years The exemption of senior citizens from the 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) was “idiotic,” Sen. Sergio Osmeña 3rd said on Thursday. According to Osmeña, the government lost about P100 billion in the last two years “from all those idiotic tax exemptions that Congress has passed.”

The Aquino administration has filed its first tax evasion case against a pawnshop owner. In a briefing, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares said the agency is suing William Villarica for paying only an income tax of P25,607 from 1998 to 2009, even though he can afford to buy and maintain sports luxury…