Monthly Archives: November 2010

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines—If you want a job, don’t go to college. This, in essence, was the message to students graduating from high school by the Eastern Visayas office of the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines – Local carrier Philippine Airlines said it is willing to put to rest the messy labor row between the management and labor union with a P2.5 billion settlement.

SAN PABLO CITY, Philippines—They may be tourists abroad, but back home in San Pablo City in Laguna, spouses and children of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) play hosts to guests, either as tour guides or as home-stay operators.

THE large number of Filipino children living on the streets threatens the Philippines’ ability to meet the Millennium Development Goals, according to a joint study conducted by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies.

MANILA, Philippines— The Department of Trade and Industry aims to secure around $8 billion in foreign direct investments for the country—the same level now enjoyed by Vietnam—stressing the importance of incentives in convincing investors to locate to the Philippines.

TUCP and its affiliates join the tree planting activity spearheaded by the National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB) in celebration of the 21st National Statistics Month on October 27, 2010 at Brgy. Hacienda Dolores, Porac Pampanga.

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SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – Anti-mining activists in Nueva Vizcaya have urged the Commission on Human Rights to come up with the report of the investigation the agency conducted last year on human rights violations allegedly committed by a mining firm in the upland mining town of Kasibu.

In the year since the establishment of the Asean Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights (AICHR), the overall human rights situation in the region has actually deteriorated. Worse still, nobody talks about it anymore because the conventional wisdom is that Asean now has a human rights body. According to normal procedure, it should be AICHR members…

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — The Philippines ranks third after Burma and Indonesia in the list of countries in Southeast Asia with the most number of people displaced by internal armed conflict.

MANILA – The Philippines’s labor department reiterated its policy to reinforce centers for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) abroad by deploying more employees overseas.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole)-Central Luzon led the assessment of the national program against child labor and the formulation of the program’s action plan.

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A bunch of economists trooped over to the New World hotel last week to enjoy a free dinner (always a guaranteed crowd drawer), courtesy of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (Philippine office) and co-hosted by the Foundation for Economic Freedom. The FNF and FEF represent their respective countries within the Economic Freedom Network, a…

NEW YORK — The solution to manmade climate change depends on the transition to electricity production that, unlike burning oil, natural gas, and coal, emits little or no carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming.

JAPAN — Countries in Asia Pacific have agreed to help establish next generation high-speed broadband networks by 2020, in an attempt to overcome the ‘digital divide’ between rich and poor nations in the region.

DAVAO CITY — The government and power companies should work on a clear plan to avert, or at least mitigate, the power supply lack Mindanao is expected to experience again during summer next year, the leader of the island’s main business chamber said during a meeting on the issue last week.

Two overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia haled their employer to court for allegedly refusing to give them their exit visas and benefits six weeks after they quit their jobs.

STRONG SPENDING during the holidays, driven partly by remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFW), should help drive economic growth faster than officially projected, economists said yesterday.

ECONOMISTS expect 2010 and 2011 inflation to fall within official target ranges, a poll conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has called for stronger enforcement of environmental laws and greater cooperation between lawmen and other government officials under the Environmental Law Enforcement Task Force.

MANILA, Philippines – At least 70% of Filipinos are satisfied with the performance of Vice-President Jejomar Binay in his first 3 months in office, a new Social Weather Stations survey (SWS) revealed Tuesday.

Taxpayers are shouldering the subsidy of the daily 150,000 “ghost riders” of Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT-3) for the past few years, a senator yesterday revealed.

Members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed disappointment over the Transparency International (TI) report even as they pushed the creation of a permanent congressional oversight committee that would monitor major regulatory agencies of the government.

The total number of Filipino sailors taken hostage by ransom-seeking pirates off Somalia has climbed to 110. Just last week, pirates seized 30 Filipino seamen in two separate hijacking incidents on Oct. 23 and 30. Those ships seized were the Singaporean oil tanker MV York with 14 Filipinos on board and the Liberian vessel, MV…

To whip state firms into efficiency, a legislator has proposed that government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) and financial institutions to periodically give to the public what is equivalent to the requirement of the bourse on listed firms, which is adequate disclosure of their financial conditions.

Four senators have expressed reservations over the Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Development Program’s (CMVDP) provision on used-vehicle importation, government and industry sources said recently. The highly placed sources said that the offices of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Senators Francis Escudero, Manuel Villar Jr. and Ralph Recto recently called the Board of Investments (BOI) to…

THERE is really nothing wrong with paying more to people who work in government. This essentially is my point here. It seems that since President Aquino came out with that expose on the excessive pay and perks of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) in his SONA, the Commission on Audit (COA) has been…

With the country’s economic situation, employees nowadays are quite keen on their net take home pay. Thus, employers must explore ways to address this concern.   

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance (DOF) is planning to totally scrap income tax holidays (ITH) for investors in the next six years, a ranking government official said.