Monthly Archives: September 2010

Inflation and interest rates will drop over the next 12 months, according to consumers in latest confidence survey of the central bank. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant Gov. Maria Cyd Tuano-Amador noted that the consumer confidence index in the third quarter improved to -14 percent from -28.7 percent a quarter earlier.

THE mining industry continues to grow stronger with the continuous flow of investments in the mining sector, with the big players bullish about sustaining growth with a favorable investment climate under the new administration, according to a top industry leader.

Only 1 percent of the extrajudicial killings during the nine years of the Arroyo administration and the first two months of the Aquino administration have been resolved in court, a recent study showed. According to the report by human rights lawyer Al A. Parreño in partnership with the Asia Foundation, only four of the 305…

THE number of jobless Filipinos fell at its fastest pace in nearly two years with the economy growing nearly 8 percent. The National Statistics Office (NSO) on Wednesday said that unemployment went down to 6.9 percent as of July, the lowest since October 2008. A year ago the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent.

CIVIL Service Commissioner Francisco Duque said Wednesday he had recommended to President Benigno Aquino 3rd not to fire 2,254 government officials on October 31, the extension deadline he gave under Memorandum Circulars 1 and 2 to those perceived to have been extended “midnight appointments” by the former Arroyo administration.

MANILA, Philippines – Remittances sent home by overseas Filipino workers breached the $10-billion mark after expanding by 7.1 percent in the first seven months of the year due to the continued strong demand for Filipino manpower worldwide, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday that the number of jobless Filipinos had declined by 200,000 as the country recovers from the effects of the global financial crisis.

Or three reasons to do it differently The Asian Development Bank is loaning the Philippine government $400,000 million to implement it’s conditional cash transfer program, known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). The conditional health and education cash grants will be provided to poor households by the DSWD, to mothers and/orpregnant women of eligible…

LONDON, United Kingdom—The effects of hunger could be costing developing countries $450 billion a year, an aid agency warned Tuesday, ahead of a United Nations summit on development.

AS the global economic crisis of 2009 cut consumption and income in the National Capital Region and other regions in Luzon, the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) of households in the Visayas and Mindanao remained robust.

THE PHILIPPINES is poised to gain from the diminishing work force abroad but top managers will have to adopt key strategies to retain local talent in the meantime, an expert yesterday said.

PAYOUTS for members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth)—those reimbursements for expenses for hospitalization and medicines—were lower last year and in 2008, but the salaries of PhilHealth employees almost doubled, according to local research group Ibon Foundation Inc. 

PHILIPPINE Airlines has sued 16 of the 25 pilots who resigned in July to work for other carriers, accusing them of breach of contract and abandonment of duty before a Makati court.

The Child Protection Unit (CPU) Philippines yesterday said emotionally abused children are likely to lead troubled lives during adulthood. “History of child abuse was linked with higher rates in adult life of depressive and anxiety symptoms, substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorders,” CPU executive director Dr. Bernadette Madrid said.

MANILA, Philippines – Power utility giant Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) has overcharged its customers by P14.2 billion in a span of five-and-a-half years, according to a consumer advocacy group.

THE bailiwicks of Vice President Jejomar Binay and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. are the richest cities in the country and with the highest spending in population control, health and education, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board. Romulo Virola, NSCB secretary general, said that the four consistently richest cities in 2008 were Quezon, Makati,…

MANILA, Philippines – Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. affirmed the House of Representatives’ commitment to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for the Philippines and called on lawmakers to pitch in to help end poverty.

MANILA, Philippines – Local businessmen are asking the government to restructure the tax system by limiting the allowable deductions in order to simplify the collection and ultimately collect more taxes.

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipina household service worker (HSW) in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia who was found in her employer’s kitchen was rushed to a hospital but died due to acid burns and stab wounds, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.

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MANILA, Philippines – More than P532 billion had been appropriated for 14 government-owned and controlled corporations for this year, or roughly 37 percent of the P1.441 trillion total for the period, Sen. Franklin Drilon said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang may have set the stage for the abolition of the National Food Authority (NFA) with its decision to take away the agency’s P8-billion rice procurement subsidy and transfer it to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

MANILA, Philippines—A United States-based Filipino doctor who specializes in caring for premature babies or neonates yesterday warned against the use of pesticides and insecticides at home to combat mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria.

Each Call Center in the Philippines has their own personal lingo and vocabulary. Obviously, when a Filipino call center agent is talking to you, you would possibly not be able to comprehend him. Here’s a list of the most common used call center lingo in the Philippines:

Spotlight interview with Elizabeth Tang (HKCTU-Hong Kong) “Society’s attitude to domestic workers is starting to improve” Brussels, 14 September 2010 (ITUC OnLine):  The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) (1) is among the organisations most experienced in the defence of domestic workers in Asia. Its chief executive, Elizabeth Tang, looks back on the difficulties…

HONG KONG – Asian newspapers are defying the global print media meltdown while their counterparts in the West spill red ink and lay off staff in droves as readers flock to online news.

DYING INDUSTRY Asbestos kills at least 300 people every day. It’s time the industry was killed off, say unions and campaigners. A statement from a United Nations body confirming its desire to see the end of asbestos use worldwide is the ‘death knoll’ for a substance which claims one life every five minutes around the…

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Differences between the sexes affected by environment during first six months of life EVANSTON, Ill. — It seems the old nature versus nurture debate can’t be won. But a new Northwestern University study of men in the Philippines makes a strong case for nurture’s role in male to female differences — suggesting that rapid weight…