Monthly Archives: November 2010

Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the third part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series.

Piloxing (Pilates and boxing) and other top trends for 2011 HERE ARE THE top health and fitness trends for 2011, based on the results of a worldwide survey among American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) certified professionals. These are the personal trainers, health fitness specialists, clinical exercise specialists, registered clinical exercise physiologists, health/fitness directors and…

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s biggest trade group, threw its support to the decision of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to restructure the operations of Philippine Airlines (PAL) which the group said considered the welfare of the majority, including the passengers that would be affected by a full-blown…

The performance rating on President Aquino slid an ominous nine percentage points to 79 percent in the latest Pulse Asia survey even as the Palace heralded the latest poll as indication of shared optimism among the public.

The good and the beautiful should be highlighted in local newspapers instead of intrigues and the negative, President Aquino lectured reporters yesterday on his arrival from a recent visit to Japan for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum Leaders’ Summit citing the penchant of local media to delve on his romantic flings and highlighting stories…

FOR the second time in as many foreign trips, President Benigno Aquino III lashed out at the Philippine press, telling Filipinos working in Japan they probably “do not get all the news” because of the Philippine media’s heavy emphasis on negative reporting.

UPSTART Phoenix Petroleum Philippines Inc. saw its core profit shooting nearly three-fold in the third quarter, outpacing market leader Petron Corp. whose net income grew by just a sixth, according to separate disclosures made by the two listed oil companies.

A total of 112 repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and two children arrived from Lebanon at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Monday.

BUS firms who participated in Monday’s protest strike that left thousand of commuters stranded will be made to answer before the Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) as to why their licenses should not be revoked.

Rates of Treasury bill dropped to record lows in Monday’s auction amid the excess liquidity in the financial system and the decision of Standard & Poor’s to upgrade the country’s foreign debt rating.

Fumbles fail to pull down marks – survey Results of a Pulse Asia survey released on Monday showed that President Benigno Aquino 3rd continues to enjoy the confidence and trust of Filipinos despite various controversies and missteps that plagued his administration. While he was pleased with the latest Pulse Asia survey, President Aquino vowed to…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to look into the complaints of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as well as foreign employers over the mandatory insurance scheme.

MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of doctors, pharmacists, drug regulators and distributors is sounding the alarm on the proliferation of fake medicines.

MANILA, Philippines – At least one activist has been killed every week since President Aquino assumed office on June 30, the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said.

MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of commuters were stranded in key points in Metro Manila yesterday as public utility buses stopped operations to protest implementation of number coding or the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP).

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) has placed a total of 23 banks under receivership as of end October this year. That is equivalent to 59 head offices and branches of rural banks throughout the country.

MANILA, Philippines – Dollar remittances in September posted a double-digit growth for the first time since December last year as overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sent more money to their loved ones in the Philippines in time for the Christmas season, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.

Writing about overseas Filipino workers is very personal to me. I have been a migrant myself—twice in fact, first as a caregiver and printing press worker in Udine, Italy in the early 1980s, and later, from 1998-2006, when I worked in Washington DC as a senior manager and policy expert in an environmental think tank.…

Itogon, Benguet, Philippines  – Two miners cheated death here Friday after they were rescued alive in a harrowing five-hour ordeal inside a small scale mine tunnel at Sitio Garrizon, Barangay Ucab here. 

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All military units from major services to the battalion level are now required to have a human rights office (HRO) to ensure better adherence to respect of human rights among the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

WHY bite the hand that feeds? Party-list Rep. Teodoro Casiño of Bayan Muna sees this as the reason why the Akbayan party-list group made a sudden turnaround on its stand—from being a harsh critic of the controversial P21.9-billion conditional cash-transfer (CCT) program that is included in the House-approved P1.645-trillion 2011 budget to one of its most…

Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV) won the second best annual report in the Management Association of the Philippines’ (MAP) First Best Annual Reports Awards for 2002, participated in by 29 listed companies in the Philippine Stock Exchange. AEV chief operating officer Erramon Aboitiz received the award on behalf of the company during the recent awards night…

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) – The United States and eight other Pacific Rim nations aim to forge a free-trade pact before President Barack Obama hosts an APEC summit in Hawaii in a year, Chile’s president said Sunday.

Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the second part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series.

One news item that should have landed in the front pages of newspapers and given equal if not more prominence than the betting odds in the cruel Pacquiao-Margarito boxing bout or the intriguing love life of P-Noy is the assessment of the May 10, 2010 automated elections by former COMELEC Chairman Christian Monsod. Once more…

I had the pleasure of listening to the former US president Bill Clinton in his talk, “Embracing Our Common Humanity” last Wednesday at the Manila Hotel. It was inspiring to hear encouraging words coming from a powerful man — that Filipinos have done great all around the world. He said that we are smart enough…

BACOLOD City, Philippines  — Bacolod City made it to the list of Tholons’ Top 100 Outsourcing Cities for 2010, said Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, chairperson of the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology or BNeFIT.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has launched an information campaign on how to benefit from the economic partnership agreements of the Philippines with other countries after a study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) showed the country’s low utilization of free trade agreements (FTAs).

MANILA, Philippines – Manny Pacquiao has pledged to help the Philippines convince the United States Congress to pass the proposed Save the Industries Act.