Monthly Archives: November 2010

MANILA, Philippines—The state-owned Government Service Insurance System is set to review its global investment program to decide whether it must bring back all the funds it invested offshore or place them in other emerging markets in Asia.

TRANSPORT officials and other stakeholders pushed the implementation of the radio frequency identification (Rfid) project of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in a public hearing conducted by the House of Representatives.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment has issued guidelines detailing the exemption of women from a long-standing ban contained in the Labor Code prohibiting them from working at night.

Vice President Jejomar Binay has suspended for 60 days the implementation of the required certification of host countries for the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFW).

More than 25 percent of the recorded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive patients in the Philippines are overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said.

MANILA, Philippines—The selection of beneficiaries is one of the most contentious portions of cash transfer programs in various countries, according to Social Watch coordinator and Third World Institute executive director Roberto Bissio.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has partnered with various non-government organizations for the implementation of a supplemental feeding program that will benefit some 1.8 million children.

MANILA, Philippines –  The government urged state universities and colleges yesterday to raise and use their own funds on top of the subsidy being given them by the government.

MANILA, Philippines –  While supporting the need to limit the size of families, the Department of Health (DOH) will also help married couples with fertility problems have children.

MANILA, Philippines –  President Aquino has suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to South Korea while the government assesses the situation in the Korean Peninsula.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) – Leftist rebels destroyed a banana plantation in the southern Philippines Friday afternoon, local officials said.

A 24-YEAR-OLD man who just graduated from a six-month vocational course is the latest to contract the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Cebu.

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CEBU CITY — The Department of Energy (DoE) expects to energize about 2,650 more households in remote areas in the country using solar energy.

The employers in Algeria continue to express preference for Filipino workers as they intend to hire more of them.

While the government has not yet cautioned Filipinos against traveling to embattled South Korea, a deployment ban has been issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in connection with the ongoing unrest in the Korean Peninsula.

Growth in factory output moderated to a nine-month low in September, the government reported on Friday, results economists said were reflective of a slowdown in economic activity.

IT IS said that Asean [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] is composed of 10 precious and exquisite pearls that sparkle and stand on a class of their own. However, these pearls remain loose, and everyone agrees that the Asean region will be a more immense source of light and strength for the rest of the…

PUNDITS doubt whether the Aquino administration’s public-private partnership (PPP) imitative would improve the economy and people’s welfare.

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Police (PNP) cried foul over the branding of the Philippines as a “broken and lawless nation” by a Hong Kong-based human rights group, stressing that such assessment is exaggerated and baseless.

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He is the boss, not the FIlipinos. President Aquino no longer listens to his “bosses” as represented by the militant students who aired their disappointment and sought Aquino’s reconsideration on his decision to cut the budget allocation of state universities and colleges (SUCs) through a lightning rally that fell flat once again as the Chief…

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile expressed his support to President Aquino’s move to replace the Climate Change Commission’s (CCC) vice chairman and decisively resolve the governance crisis that has plagued the country’s lead government agency tasked to address the climate change crisis.

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In a bid to strengthen and promote breastfeeding, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri has filed a bill that will encourage and support breastfeeding initiatives in the communities and healthcare facilities as well as the workplace to make sure women breastfeed and continue to do so.

“We envision GSIS to become the most service-focused agency in government and to provide not just any kind of service, but responsive service.”

Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III is asking the Department of Education (DepEd) to seriously consider adopting a “drug abuse prevention education program” and appropriate a portion of its proposed P207.3 billion budget next year for this purpose.

TO bridge the classroom gap in the provinces, the national government plans to enter into joint venture agreements with local government units (LGUs) for the purpose. Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Florencio Abad told The Manlila Times that the national government would match every peso that an LGU would spend building classrooms in…

A LAWMAKER recently filed a bill to impose a ceiling interest rates and penalties on the credit card interest following the huge number of credit card users in the country.

President Benigno Aquino III’s address to the United Nations and meetings with UN leaders such as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon afforded him the chance to reaffirm the Philippine government’s resolve to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. But just five years into the deadline, it appears remote that all the targets would…