Monthly Archives: September 2010

WITH only five years remaining until the deadline of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a joint report of the two United Nations agencies and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) showed the Philippines can achieve the poverty and health targets, but only after 2015.

THE PHILIPPINES will resist pressures for it to commit to greenhouse gas emission cuts and will demand damages from large industrial economies at next month’s talks for a global deal to fight climate change, a ranking official said late last week.

Global telecoms revenue will bounce back this year, thanks to a strong rally in the mobile sector, telecoms analyst Ovum said. New figures released by Ovum’s Global Telecoms Analyzer showed that telecoms service provider revenues only grew by 2.2% year-on-year in 2009.

MANILA, Philippines – The European Union (UE) expressed its continued support for the Philippine health care sector as it aims to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of infant and neonatal mortality reduction (MDG 4) and maternal mortality reduction (MDG 5) by 2015.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The National Statistics Office (NSO) central office revealed that 58 million out of the estimated 67 million Filipinos aged 10 to 64 years old are functionally literate, meaning they can read, write, compute, and comprehend.

President Obama should close the political gap on regional engagement This coming Friday at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, President Barack Obama will host his counterparts from 8 of the 10 ASEAN nations for the second U.S.-ASEAN Summit. The luncheon is important because it institutionalizes American engagement in ASEAN on equal footing with…

The absence of a national road safety masterplan and non-coordination among nine concerned government agencies for the proliferation of land traffic accidents that kill and injure countless people across the country every year, private think tank Forensic Law and Policy Strategies Inc. (Forensic Solutions) said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US economy exited recession in June 2009, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday, making it official that the downturn was the longest in more than half a century.

Will LTO chief Virginia Torres insist on Friday’s bidding for a new driver’s license supplier, against superiors’ orders? If so, she might be the second friend-appointee of President Noynoy Aquino to bring him shame.

LONDON (AFP) – – Amnesty International on Wednesday accused world leaders at a UN summit of damaging the fight against global poverty through their failure to combat human rights violations.

The fiscal path of underspending taken by the Aquino administration and the possibility that it would further raise the 12 value added tax to improve its tax effort could derail the economic rebound being experienced by the Philippines, according to a study released Wednesday by the Metrobank Group.

POVERTY AMONG Americans is now at a record high. According to the latest report from the US Census Bureau, there were close to 44 million poor Americans last year, the highest recorded in 51 years. Our government has yet to release our own official poverty statistics for 2009, but as of last count in 2006,…

MANILA, Philippines – Female traffic enforcers were deployed by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) across the country’s roads and thoroughfares starting Monday. The LTO believes that the move will discourage erring motorists from either attempting to bribe the traffic enforcers or engage them in an argument.

WASHINGTON DC, United States—The United Nations and national governments are ill-prepared to tackle the rapidly evolving threats to world peace and security, a joint US-EU report released Monday says.

UNITED NATIONS  – Asia has slashed the number of people living in extreme poverty, but leads the world in malnourishment and is struggling to meet ambitious development goals set at the United Nations, a UN report said.

MANILA, Philippines—In need of workers from plumbers to carpenters to engineers, the provincial government of Manitoba, Canada on Tuesday morning signed an agreement with the labor department to deploy overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the province.

COTABATO, Philippines—The Philippines is to offer money and jobs to its militant-hit southern communities amid peace talks with Muslim rebels, an aide to President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday.

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Management of Philippine Airlines lashed back at disgruntled cabin workers for ‘forum shopping’ by filing case before the Commission on Human Rights even amidst ongoing mediation hearings at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

Despite objections of teachers Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro remained adamant on his order of implementing a “no assignment on weekend policy” despite objectons from a group of teacher group about it.

MANILA, Philippines – The government successfully sold P8.5 billion worth of 91, 182, and 364-day Treasury bills (T-bills) yesterday although there was an uptick in the rate of the shorter-term paper because of the lack of supply in 91-day T-bills.

UNITED NATIONS – The statistics for maternal mortality have improved by 34 percent. That means a woman is no longer dying every minute, but one woman is still dying every minute and a half.

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Last week I decided to drop by the opening-day budget hearings of the Congressional appropriations committee. It was also my very first time to visit the Batasan compound, which I duly found to be pretty impressive, except for the lack of parking space.

Manila (20 September) — Senator Edgardo J. Angara pays tribute to the Filipino seafarers and maritime workers around the world in commemoration of the International Seafarer’s Week and the World Maritime Day yesterday.

PHILIPPINE Airlines will be suing the remaining 10 pilots who resigned abruptly despite reports they have left the country to work for foreign carriers, an official said over the weekend.

KUWAIT: A group of some 20 Filipino employees working with a private company in Kuwait lodged a complaint with the office of Philippine labor attach�, accusing their employer of non-payment of salaries, breach of contract and lying about legal residency in Kuwait. In a recent interview with the Kuwait Times, workers claimed that they were…

Noting less restiveness of workers, employers are backing a proposal for a two-tiered wage scheme to do away with mandated yearly minimum wage increases. “We may be eroding our advantage of having lower wages through our yearly minimum wage setting such that this discourages investments,” Edgardo Lacson, president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines…

MANILA, Philippines – After almost two years of extreme belt-tightening and drop in profit, most of the world’s executives now have a brighter outlook on the global economy, according to research by advisory firm McKinsey & Co.

MANILA, Philippines – Members of a labor union at the Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Monday lodged complaints of gender discrimination and ill treatment of female flight attendants against the beleaguered airline company, calling for the abolition of these erratic policies.