Monthly Archives: October 2010

CLARK FIELD (PLDT/WeRoam) — Killer typhoon “Juan” had not landed yet last Friday, but Metro Manila and other areas were already being battered blind by rotating power blackouts lasting hours.

PUBLIC Works Secretary Rogelio Singson on Friday promised P50 million in projects to 57 party-list lawmakers who demanded “equal treatment and a sense of parity” with congressmen who received additional funding for their districts, but House leaders balked at the offer, saying it would set “a bad precedent.”

MANILA, Philippines –  A party-list congressman filed Friday a bill that seeks to limit the interest rate being charged by credit card companies to one percent a month or 12 percent a year.

MANILA, Philippines—The number of Filipino nurses seeking jobs in the United States continues to decline, dropping by 38 percent in the third quarter, a prominent labor leader said Saturday.

CEBU, Philippines – The national government, through the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is intensifying its efforts to boost the research and development (R&D) skills of the Philippines.

The continuing appreciation of peso has started to impact on a few business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in the Philippines that have sent out signals of possibly closing shop.

A Filipino high school student from the Philippine School in Bahrain topped a recently concluded Inter-School Speech competition in Manama.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government continues to score poorly in the areas of stable laws, access to justice and corruption compared to similarly situated countries in the region, a new report on government effectiveness revealed Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Television continues to lord it over all media in the Philippines, but Filipinos are watching less of it as a result of changing lifestyles and habits, a media poll group said Friday.

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Despite the government travel ban to Afghanistan, some 4,000 undocumented Filipinos are reportedly working in the Middle East state, Labor and diplomatic sources yesterday said.

I had the good fortune to listen to an ensemble of illustrious, knowledgeable and practical speakers from different parts of the world at the Summit on Globalization of Human Capital held in Taipei, Taiwan last Sept 24 to 26. Among them are keynote speakers USA’s Dr/Prof. Dave Ulrich and Switzerland’s David Prince and concurrent session…

FILIPINOS, particularly the younger ones, have stopped the habit of reading newspapers because of changing lifestyle and other platforms.

WASHINGTON, D.C: Sweden and The Netherlands scored high, with the United States lagging behind its high-income peers in a new ranking of government effectiveness called the “Rule of Law Index.”

MANILA, Philippines – The European Union (EU) has warned that if the Philippines continues to drag its feet on a possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the EU might not be able to accommodate the Philippines anymore because it is processing several agreements with other Asian countries.

MANILA, Philippines – Officials lamented that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) allocated only P38.8 million to the 2011 budget of the Climate Change Commission (CCC).

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Senate will continue to hear important legislative measures including the Reproductive Health (RH) bill during its two-and-a-half week break that began on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang is renewing its pitch for a P21-billion program to benefit the “poorest of the poor,” appealing to Congress to keep the funds intact.

When the 21 leaders of APEC economies – including President Barack Obama, President Hu Jin-Tao, and our own President Aquino – meet next month in Yokohama, it will be the 18th time that APEC heads will do so. I have been privileged to attend all the APEC Summits beginning with the first one in Blake…

Judgment at 100 days is another one of those strange things picked up from the Americans. I’m not sure how you can fairly judge someone’s performance a scant three months into office. Six months is the more normal corporate measure. But 100 days is “mandated” by tradition, and President Aquino measured himself and his performance…

AKBAYAN, a party-list group allied with President Benigno Aquino III, was granted a P4.05-billion fund for its marginalized constituents in agrarian reform communities Thursday, lawmakers said.

THE country must relax its labor laws to attract foreign investment and remain globally competitive, Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo said Thursday on the sidelines of the Philippine Business Conference in Manila.

Credit cards are a necessary evil in the modern world. You need cards to book a flight, make reservations, pay bills, and to build credit. On the flip side, they can also devastate your credit rating if you are not careful.

Outsourcing services became an important sector in the world today. It has offered numerous solutions especially to big corporations who can not simply maintain in-house manpower. It enables the company to grow at a faster pace as it will be less constrained by large capital expenditures for people or equipment that may take years to…

MANILA, Philippines – The government must provide a predictable and secure business environment if it wants investors to commit billions of dollars to its planned infrastructure projects, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.

The 17th ASEAN Summit, to be held in Hanoi in late October, will be a landmark event looking towards an ASEAN Community by 2015, a Vietnamese official has said.

Manila (25 January 2010) – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) vowed to continue its services on Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning to all its union members and non-union members at the workplace .

Dividing a P21.9-billion lump sum into morsels and deciding how much goes where is not difficult. In denying the globally proven economic benefits of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) conditional cash-transfer (CCT) program, critics assert funds might better be spent elsewhere. As they enumerate a motherhood wish list, they’ve forgotten the operant…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is convinced that loose-credit standards rather than the absence of a credit-rating agency are the driving force behind the high incidence of loan defaults among credit-card borrowers.