Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Supreme Court (SC) has decided a labor case filed by sugar workers against the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) owned by the family of President Aquino, which decision ruled against the Cojuangco-Aquino clan’s sugar business, saying it acted in bad faith.

Passes off Noy’s misleading claims as Arroyo’s ‘lack of prudence’ Are their faces red, but they are still trying to save face by injecting a morality issue. Malacañang yesterday admitted that there was nothing anomalous after all in President Aquino’s claimed “shock and awe” expose against his predecessor, former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo,…

THE Aquino administration plans to increase the fares in the country’s mass rail systems, citing higher operational expense and subsidies from the government. “I think it is time for the fares to go up. [But] there will be a lot of factors to be considered.

THE overall crime incidence in the country has significantly dropped during the first six month of the year, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP). Crime data culled by the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management showed that index crime or crime against persons sharply dropped to 66.84 percent and 71.31 percent for non-index crime…

MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of government workers, from Malacañang down to the line agencies, will be joining the ranks of around three million unemployed as the Memorandum Circular 1 (MC 1) of President Aquino extending their services expires today.

WASHINGTON — The US economic recovery will remain slow deep into next year, held back by shoppers reluctant to spend and employers hesitant to hire, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.

MANILA, Philippines – In what could be an early display of independence from the new administration, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled against the sugar mill and refinery owned by President Aquino’s family in Tarlac.

MANILA, Philippines — The random manual audit of 1,145 clustered precincts showed that the audit of the presidential, vice-presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, and mayoral races held up against the accuracy rate determined by the National Statistics Office.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—The managements of various businesses will respect the order to implement a 15-peso wage increase in Western Visayas, Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Roberto Montelibano said on Wednesday.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—A Saudi cleric said only Muslim housemaids should be allowed in the oil-rich country and they should be kept segregated from men in the home, an online news site reported on Tuesday.

Supply chain management (SCM) has always been associated with large organizations (LOs). Although small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are part of the supply chain in both inbound and outbound logistics, focus on SCM has always been from the perspective of LOs.

Working environments are continuously changing with the introduction of new technologies, substances and work processes, changes in the structure of the workforce and the labour market, and new forms of employment and work organisation. New work situations bring new risks and challenges for workers and employers, which in turn demand political, administrative, technical and regulatory…

FLIGHT ATTENDANTS at Philippine Airlines (PAL) are planning to strike, accusing management of trying to impose a “discriminatory policy” lowering the retirement age to 40.

SEN. Edgardo Angara foresees the Philippines’ Real Estate Investment Trusts riding the crest of the wave amid bright prospects for REITs in Asia which, he noted, has outperformed similar investment instruments in other parts of the world.

The title of a Dow Jones article last July 22, “Philippines unveils plans to double investment proposals by 2014,” pointed to a key goal of the present national leadership.

MANILA, Philippines – Experts blame the government’s excessive importation for the volume of rice flooding the warehouse of the National Food Authority (NFA) and problems facing the country’s rice farmers.

THE Philippines’ flag carrier is besieged by a looming labor strike and complaints by travel agencies of unfair business practices.

In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, President Benigno Aquino 3rd laid down his plan to engage in more public-private partnerships to build roads and bridges, enhance our Navy, build agricultural facilities and fund his plans for reforms in education, health and other social services. His panacea seems to be hinged upon…

Malacañang on Wednesday seemed to have retreated on its claim that the previous Arroyo administration violated the law in connection with its treatment of the national budget. Budget and Management Undersecretary Mario Relampagos said that there was nothing illegal in the immediate past government’s spending of the general appropriations in the first six months of…

MANILA, Philippines – San Miguel Corp. (SMC), the biggest food and beverage company in Southeast Asia, is open to investments in nuclear power generation in line with its continued diversification into heavy industries.

During his campaign for the presidency, Candidate Noynoy offered a 10-point agenda for education. In his State of the Nation address last Monday, President Benigno Aquino III focused on three of these points, namely, the 12-year basic education cycle, additional classrooms, and GASTPE.

MANILA, Philippines – Dr. Emerlinda Ramos-Roman is on her fifth year as president of the University of the Philippines System (UPS). The noted lady educator is the first woman to head the country’s premier century-old state university.

MANILA, Philippines – A World Bank official has urged the Department of Education to make all public elementary and high schools in the country more accessible to children with disabilities.

(Part 2 of a series on Reproductive Health) In 1901, Dr. Maria Montessori gave up her medical practice to go back to school and travel to France and England, to pursue her vision of extending her initial discovery of the scientific education she discovered working with deficient children to normal children. It was the Instituto…

WARNING SHOT: What, or who, prompted President Noynoy Aquino to fire a warning shot across the bow of media in his State of the Nation Address last Monday?

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that three out of four Filipino adults expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the first nationwide automated elections last May 10.

The Communist Party of the Philippines yesterday rejected President Aquino’s proposed resumption of the long-stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the CPP-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) anchored on immediate ceasefire which is contrary to previous agreements.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang stood pat on the figures cited by President Aquino in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) and maintained that the previous administration was “fiscally irresponsible” and “immoral” by going on a spending spree during the first half of the year when no revenues were coming in.

MANILA, Philippines – Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s urban poor assistance program was a failure, the Commission on Audit said yesterday.

The government has scrapped moves to revive the mothballed 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant but nuclear energy remains an option, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said Tuesday.