Monthly Archives: July 2010

MANILA, Philippines –  Sen. Pia Cayetano warned the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) yesterday of the repercussions of its plan to tax market and sari-sari store vendors, as well as pedicab and tricycle drivers, saying the revenue agency should focus instead on big tax evaders if it’s really serious about plugging the yawning deficit.

MANILA, Philippines –  Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita “Ging” Deles is getting a second chance to push for peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the New People’s Army (NPA).

MANILA, Philippines – Until last July 5 when she officially took over the leadership of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Rosalinda Baldoz was content to be working in the background, playing a supporting role to her superiors.

SEEKING TO further open its doors to more international trade, the Philippines has expressed interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral free trade deal that involves several economies, including the country’s biggest trading partner, the United States.

SAN FRANCISCO, California – Police arrested protesting hotel workers that blocked a street leading to the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

STATE subsidies to non-financial government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) fell in June, the Bureau of the Treasury said on Friday. Last month, the national government only disbursed P183 million, or 90.6 percent lower than the P1.94 billion released in the same period a year ago.

DESPITE its benign inflation outlook in the medium term, the Philippine central bank sees upside risks given the pending petitions for power and transport fare hikes and the possibility that global commodity prices could turn upward, an official said. “Should the inflation outlook turn out to be less favorable as growth continues to gain traction…

A CONGRESSMAN filed a bill seeking to criminalize the use of artificial trans fat in food preparation and manufacture, citing the dangers of the ingredient when consumed.

Education Secretary Armin Luistro said Friday he would push for the prompt release of the adjusted teachers’ salaries as part of the department’s plan to upgrade the quality of education in public schools.

Former Health Secretary Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan believes that there is still hope for the country to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) laid down by the United Nations (un) if the Aquino administration has the “political will.”

The launch of the Magna Carta of Women Implementing Rules and Regulations (MCW IRR) last week is hailed as a ground-breaking event as it provides the legal framework that recognizes women’s role in nation-building, and promotes equality between women and men in Philippine society.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration employees’ association yesterday urged the Aquino administration to increase the salaries of Pagasa personnel, particularly weather forecasters, to prevent them from leaving the country for better paying jobs abroad.

TACLOBAN CITY—The International Labor Organization (ILO-Manila)is coordinating with the labor department in the region in its bid to address child labor problem in this part of the country.

LABOR groups would expect an ugly response from the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Northern Mindanao in their petition for a P75 across-the-board wage increase aimed at “uplifting the lives of the workers.”

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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile has expressed alarm over the reported “meddling” of religious sectors in the fight for the Senate presidency, noting the apparent violation being committed by the religious groups on the principle of the separation of powers of Church and State.

Gunmen believed to be members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) burned down several logging equipment worth millions of pesos in an inner Isabela town on Thursday, a military report said yesterday.

THE previous administration has spent most of the 2010 budget, leaving the government only 10 percent or about P100 billion to cover expenses for the next five months, President Benigno Aquino III said Friday.

Former Senator Nikki Coseteng believes that overhauling the educational system of the country is difficult, but doable.

The Tahanang Walang Hagdanan located in Cainta, Rizal is perhaps the premiere private institution in the country that has championed the cause of people with disabilities (PWDs).

During my years of writing a sex and relationship column for a men’s magazine, the question I always get from men, was: “Does size really matter?” Of course, I got a bunch of other variations—some colorful and some mathematical (think in terms of ratio and proportion)—of that inquiry. That question would usually come on the…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday vowed he would intervene if US unemployment worsens, amid evidence of a jobless and tepid recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – A helper died and a cook suffered severe burns on his face and both arms in a 30-minute fire that broke out at a canteen in Malabon City Thursday afternoon.

It is precisely the nightmare that haunts investors considering putting in billions of dollars in the Philippine economy. The Bloomberg newsflash read: “Mining ban looming in the Philippines.”

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo is the only member of the Arroyo Cabinet who was retained by President Aquino.

Some 2,300 leaders and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to take a second look on the 27-year-old case and decide on the full merits of their petition, seeking to enforce National Labor Relations Commission’s order for the Texas-based giant group employer to pay all the 1,975 OFW-petitioners more than US…

MANILA, Philippines—It should disturb the nation, not just the new administration, that total hunger increased by 1 percentage point compared to the second quarter of 2009, and severe hunger was also higher compared to the first quarter of 2010 because the second quarter encompassed a presidential election which should have been a major redistributive event.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—At the height of the election campaign in May, a tarpaulin showing top communist rebel Leoncio Pitao, or Commander Parago, shaking hands with then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City was burned by hard-core anticommunist Pastor Jun Alcover and retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan—right at the bosom of insurgency in Paquibato District.

MANILA, Philippines—As the administration of President Benigno Aquino III settles down and braces for work for the next six years, a review of the latest National Nutrition Survey (NNS) might be imperative to guide it in one of its proclaimed crusades—to reduce poverty.

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