Monthly Archives: October 2010

Birth control advocates state their case plainly: • Responsible parenthood includes planning of family size and spacing of pregnancies. Planned family size and pregnancies enable parents to feed, rear and teach their children well.

MANILA, Philippines – In the first 100 days of the Aquino administration, the Department of Health (DOH) has largely been preoccupied with fighting dengue and expanding the coverage of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).

MANILA, Philippines – United States authorities have lifted the licensure examination ban on Filipino physical therapy (PT) graduates being recruited to practice in the US.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has named Rosalinda Baldoz labor secretary in a permanent capacity. Speaking at the 10th Public Employment Service Office Congress in Tagaytay City, Mr. Aquino said he had appointed Baldoz on a permanent basis because of her good performance.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino’s former colleagues at the Senate gave him a fair grade for his performance during his first 100 days in office. Maverick Sen. Joker Arroyo said the President “unqualifiedly deserves high marks” because of the enormous trust and faith of the people in him that remains steadfast and unwavering.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nation’s (Asean) single market idea is taking shape and will continue to consolidate to facilitate free movement of goods and services, and people within the region, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Brussels, 5 October 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Concerned by the faltering pace of global economic recovery, which has yet to produce a real recovery for millions of workers and unemployed men and women, the ITUC and its Global Unions partners have called upon the 2010 Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF to reject…

IAM not an authority on Catholicism but I am a practicing Catholic. I may not know as much about my faith as a theologian or my priest but I do believe in the Apostles Creed, which, if I recall my religion classes correctly, is the profession if not summation of our faith, of what we…

If you are qualified for a certain job but routinely turned down after a potential employer checks your credit record, the best tip is to move to Washington or Hawaii. These two states have banned employee credit checks, with certain exceptions. If you apply for a position in a financial institution, state or local government…

A wide-ranging study of Americans’ sexual behavior, based on the largest nationally representative survey since 1992, has found that condom use is becoming the norm for sexually active teenagers.

MANILA, Philippines—More than 16,000 people have been purged from the list of almost a million “poorest of the poor” under the government’s conditional cash-transfer program because they are either unqualified or their names were entered twice, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman said Monday.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Private-sector workers in south-central Mindanao will get P15 in additional cost of living allowance (Cola) based on the latest order of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board.

An official of state-run Home Development Mutual Fund, or Pag-IBIG Fund, admitted Tuesday that there were lapses that allowed a developer to take up loan proceeds for questionable housing projects.

On the eve of World Teachers’ Day, a party-list group urged the government to honor teachers by giving them salary raises and increasing the budget for education.

CEBU, Philippines – Urban poor housing problems take centerstage in yesterday’s celebration of the World Habitat Day in Cebu City.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday clarified that the government’s proposed 12-year education cycle will be introduced gradually.

MANILA, Philippines – Treasury bill (T-bill) rates dropped across the board in yesterday’s auction amid strong demand for government debt papers and the high level of liquidity in the market, Deputy Treasurer Eduardo Mendiola said yesterday.

Power network operator National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said it is capable of transmitting sufficient power to the Mindanao grid and the power hitch in the region is a result of a nagging supply shortfall rather than a transmission problem.

An interesting – and, despite its serious content, amusing — duel has developed between Rigoberto Tiglao and Dr. Bernardo Villegas in the pages of the Inquirer. Initially, rather than either mentioning the other’s name, they were like two battleships exchanging salvos from either side of the horizon.

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) bared yesterday many local government units (LGUs) nationwide are having difficulty of establishing and operating their own Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centers. The reason is owing to lack of funding.

A Church official yesterday said the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is accepting a ceasefire that he said Malacañang had sought on the exchange of threatening statements over the Reproductive Health bill issue but added that silence will not mean that the Church is “foregoing a strong position” on the controversial legislative proposal…

Debate Rages: We have not seen the final text – because there is none yet — of the Reproductive Health bill that the Congress is being asked to pass and which the Catholic Church and proponents of the measure are passionately debating.

MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) yesterday declared a unilateral “ceasefire” by momentarily keeping a vow of silence and not issuing “incendiary statements” in an attempt to defuse the growing Church-government row over contraceptives.

MANILA, Philippines – Joining in the reproductive health (RH) bandwagon, lawmakers filed 6 separate bills to take advantage of the position taken by Malacañang.

President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has no business talking to the leaders of the Catholic Church, a women’s rights activist said. EnGendeRights Executive Director Clara Rita Padilla said “good governance dictates that [Aquino] should not dialogue with the Catholic bishops on the government’s policy on reproductive health. Meeting with the bishops erodes the essence of…

President Benigno Aquino III promised to give Filipino educators better training, classrooms and related equipment on Tuesday during the celebration of World Teachers’ Day. Aquino said the bigger budget allocation for the education sector next year aims to help teachers, who he called his administration’s “partners” in facing the challenges he inherited from the past…

September was a rough month for LGBT America. Admittedly, there were two major victories regarding the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy: First, Judge Victoria Phillips ruled that the military’s policy violated constitutional rights to free speech and due process. Then, three weeks later, another judge ordered the military to reinstate an officer who had been…

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IF their tax payments last year mean anything, the insurance industry may sustain its upward trek and post another banner year this year in terms of tax payments on insurance premium.