Monthly Archives: August 2010

IN line with the Aquino administration’s thrust to involve the private sector in various infrastructure projects so as to limit government spending, Transportation Secretary Jose de Jesus said on Friday night his agency will privatize the operation and management of various projects under the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).

The wife beater is a very controlling man. He often is also suffering from a personality disorder. He might be an anti social personality. He is someone who lacks conscience. How can a man who says he loves his wife keep beating her and not feel bad about it? It is true that most abusive…

The amount of money sent home by Filipinos overseas is seen to grow by as much as 10 percent in November, according to First Metro Investments Corp. (FMIC) and the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P).

European Union’s top diplomat to Manila has urged the Aquino administration to certify the immediate ratification of the reproductive health bill and to live up to its international pledge to promote maternal health under the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

EIGHT MORE FLIGHTS CANCELLED Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) yesterday said it rejected the resignation of more than two dozens of its pilots and gave them seven days to return to work or face court charges as President Aquino said his government would intervene in the labor dispute which had caused flight cancellations.

THE Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged the Aquino administration to investigate thousands of firms found underpaying their workers and violating other general labor standards, saying they are potential tax dodgers too. “The Bureau of Internal Revenue should immediately audit the erring firms for possible non payment or underpayment of their tax…

With Executive Order (EO)1creating Truth Commission signed, the Aquino Administration can now turn to the more crucial part of his anti-corruption agenda: fighting graft under his watch. Those with illusions that running after the previous regime would stop sleaze under the current one should recall what anti-graft prosecutors have to show for their pursuit of…

MANILA, Philippines – Almost half of the country’s geologists have left government work for greener pastures abroad or in private companies here.

PASSENGERS of Philippine Airlines (PAL) may continue experiencing delays of flights at least a week more even if the country’s flag carrier demanded its more than two dozen pilots to return to work. In a statement, the Lucio Tan-owned airline carrier rejected the resignation of its pilots and called on them to respect their existing…

MANILA, Philippines – Adding to the burden of the Philippine Airlines (PAL), its flight attendants are also going on strike within 2 weeks due to management’s alleged failure to address their labor problems.

Government officials are giving their non Career Executive Service Officers (CESO) until October 30 at the earliest to vacate their Career Executive Service (CES) positions. In line with the Memorandum Circular (MC) 2 issued by Malacañang which extends the services of non career officials holding Career Executive Service positions until October 30, top officials are…

MANILA, Philippines – If there was anything the Luzon-wide blackout that Typhoon Basyang left, it was a stark realization of how precious and fragile the Philippines’ power supply is. And Basyang was just typhoon number one of the 2010 rainy season.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US economy risks “Japanese-style” stagnation, a top Federal Reserve official warned Thursday, as a key economic report was expected to show the recovery is losing pace.

MANILA, Philippines – Monetary authorities believe that the country’s domestic output as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) could grow in double-digit levels if the administration of President Aquino is able to put in place much needed physical infrastructure and at the same time develop human capital to pave the way for the entry…

MANILA, Philippines – Private economists lowered their inflation forecasts for this year as fiscal concerns in Europe is expected to temper inflationary pressures but expect consumer prices to pick up in 2011 and 2012 on the back of upside risks, a survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) rejected yesterday the resignation of more than two dozen pilots and ordered them to return to work within seven days.

EX@40 refers to the on-going mess at the airport where pilots and crew members of a major airline have walked away from their jobs after learning that the company would soon implement a policy of retiring employees at age 40.

MANILA, Philippines – Businessmen are calling for a deferment for any wage increase this year, citing the slowdown in global demand.

MANILA, Philippines – The government will privatize the operation and maintenance of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA 3) once all the legal obstacles to its full operation have been resolved, according to Transportation and Communications Secretary Jose de Jesus.

Philippine call centers are urged to try home-based operations to curb high attrition rate and increase employee satisfaction. Experts on business process outsourcing (BPO) urged Philippines to try home-based operations with home based agents during the Annual Call Center Expo.

Citing the recent State-of-the-Nation Address (SoNA) of President Benigno Aquino III, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said it plans to tap the private sector to solve job mismatch, unemployment, and graft and corruption.

Some business consultants and trainers of Business Coach, Inc. are over 60 years old. Whenever, they are asked if they are ready to retire, they will laugh and say “Of course not. Malakas pa kami sa kalabaw (We’re stronger than carabaos).”

A significant percentage of workers employed in the country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) sector — majority of whom working in call center facilities — are suffering from work-related health problems, a recent study showed.

Promoting leadership of excellence MANILA, Philippines—He can win an election but can he run a country?” This was the headline of a newspaper in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was elected President in 1994 after the fall of the apartheid regime.

US economic growth slowed dramatically in the second quarter, the government said Friday, stoking fears that the recovery is losing steam and fueling a fierce political debate over how to respond.

MANILA, Philippines – The previous administration’s policy of heavily relying on imports to fill in demand has led to a serious fallout in local food manufacturing, a top executive of a leading food processor said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ math whiz kids have again harvested a crop of championship trophies, as well as several silver and bronze medals in the 11th Invitational World Youth Mathematics Inter-Cities Competitions (IWYMIC) and the Korea Elementary Mathematics International Competition held in Incheon, South Korea.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Loren Legarda has called for the passage of a bill that would peg the minimum wage of household helpers at P4,000 a month.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines yesterday cancelled eight domestic flights and one international flight to Hong Kong due to lack of pilots after many of the airline’s pilots have resigned or have been hired by foreign airlines that pay higher wages.

MANILA, Philippines – A private energy firm has put up 5,129 solar panels in impoverished barangays in Masbate province. Paris Manila Technology Corp. (Pamatec) has executed the Philippine Rural Electrification Service (PRES) through a French loan worth 17.5-million euro borrowed by the National Power Corp.