Monthly Archives: November 2010

We should have more decisions, and Department Secretaries, like this! Three aggrieved teachers in Visayas vindicated by CHED’s decision Working for more than 20 years in the high school department, three teachers of a Visayas university had the shock of their teaching lives when they received on June 15, 2010 a memo reassigning them to…

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MANILA, Philippines— Philippine exporters are urged to tap existing free trade agreements (FTAs) in striking new business partnerships with prospective foreign companies and in further expanding their markets abroad.

MANILA, Philippines—Seeking to “tame” credit card companies, a lawmaker on Monday proposed to slash the current three percent monthly interest rate they charge card holders to one percent.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine population will continue to grow in the next 50 years even if each couple limits children to two, an official of the Commission on Population (Popcom) said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines—More than 700 hospitals all over the country have so far conformed with a Department of Health (DoH) order for the gradual phaseout of all medical devices containing mercury, a nongovernment environmental health group said Tuesday.

The 2,300-strong PLDT rank-and-file union Manggagawa sa Komunikasyon ng Pilipinas (MKP)  is seeking a meeting with the management to clarify certain issues regarding the company’s ongoing manpower reduction, including its “compensation program,” which was said to have been forced upon some employees.

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FAMILY, HEALTH, and religion emerged as Filipino men’s and women’s top sources of joy in the 2010 Philippine Happiness Index (PHI), whose results were released yesterday by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

THE PHILIPPINES, India and Indonesia offer the biggest opportunities for the fledging microinsurance industry, which has a potential market of 3 billion people, industry officials said on Tuesday.

Some 58 Filipino teachers in Brunei attended an orientation conducted by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) about the government services they can avail of while working abroad.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will likely grow by 6% this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said, a pace at the high end of the government’s target but lower compared to outlooks for 5 Southeast Asian neighbors.

Money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is likely to grow by 7.8 percent this year, according to a new World Bank report. In its “Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011,” the Washington-based lender said that OFW remittances will reach $21.31 billion this year from P19.77 billion last year.

A neophyte party-list lawmaker yesterday sought amendments to the Labor Code particularly on the provisions about security of tenure and contractualization of workers.

The level of happiness among poor Filipinos fell “dramatically” over the last three years, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). In its Statistically Speaking, NSCB Secretary General Romulo Virola on Tuesday said that the level of happiness did not change much between 2007 and 2008, but dramatically went down in 2010.

The six major Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries have rebounded from the global economic crisis with average expected growth of 7.3 percent this year, and 6 percent over the next five years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Tuesday. Vietnam is expected to post the highest average growth rate…

MANILA, Philippines – After the Manila hostage fiasco, Filipinos aspiring to work in Hong Kong face a new crisis. Employment agencies in Hong Kong are now threatening to stop the recruitment of workers from the Philippines due to the mandatory insurance requirement.

MANILA, Philippines – The electronics industry is expecting exports to hit $50 billion in six years and investments to reach $2 billion in 2011 from only $1 billion this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines ranks as the fourth biggest recipient of remittances worldwide with an estimated $21.3-billion inflow this year, a new World Bank study showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is eyeing China, Malaysia and Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar as new market for its banana exports, Agriculture Undersecretary for special concerns Berna Romulo-Puyat said yesterday.

PRIETO DIAZ, Sorsogon — More and more local governments and NGOs are reforesting their coastlines with mangroves. They can learn from this Pacific town how to do it by the hundreds of hectares, both to save the earth and spur the economy. It’s a success story of environment protection leading into different livelihoods.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is fine-tuning its code of conduct for state workers, including setting guidelines for social networking. Malacañang’s announcement came after the disparaging tweets by Assistant Secretary Mai Mislang about the wine served for President Aquino’s toast with Vietnamese President Nguyen Ming Triet. Mislang had also posted her unflattering opinion of Vietnamese…

MANILA, Philippines – The Senate committee on finance has endorsed the proposed Corporate Governance Act of 2010 for approval, a measure intended to put an end to the reported abuses committed by officials of state-owned firms.

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — An estimated two million household workers stand to benefit from the proposed Batas Kasambahay, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said on Tuesday as he prepares to sponsor the measure this week.

Runaway overseas Filipino workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are not only growing in number, they are also getting bolder. This was the assessment of Philippine labor officials in the KSA, who are getting worried over the development.

The advancement of technology in this millennium age has introduced a lot of flourishing careers with attractive compensation for the Filipino people. The development is growing rapidly because of the emergence of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services particularly in the call center industry. The unemployment rate that used to be a top problem in the…

TOKYO, Japan—The six major Asean countries have rebounded from the global economic crisis with average expected growth of 7.3 percent this year, and six percent over the next five years, the OECD said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines—Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on Tuesday called on all local government officials across the country to allow for more participation of indigenous peoples in policy-making through the appointment of IP representatives.

SAN JOSE, Saipan – Thousands of overseas Filipino workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are urging US President Barack Obama to protect legal foreign workers from mass deportation after November 2011.