Monthly Archives: January 2011

Persons suffering from HIV/AIDS increased rapidly by 25 percent for this year in the Phillippines according to an international expert Steve Kraus of the UNAIDS Regional Support for Asia and the Pacific in meeting with Catholic bishops to discuss role of Christian faith in fighting the dreaded infection.

Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada moved to institutionalize measures assuring equal employment opportunities for all regardless of gender.

MANILA, Philippines – The government may adopt a selective deployment ban in an effort to provide more protection for Filipino workers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reported yesterday.

Vexed by the onslaught of criticisms it has been receiving lately on the government’s failure to prevent the recent bombing incident in Makati and address the rising criminality in the country, Malacañang yesterday slammed the so-called “noisy minority” for allegedly politicizing the issues that are currently confronting President Aquino’s leadership.

Malacañang spin-doctors seem to be working full blast in their efforts to push through with the alleged “Responsible Parenthood” bill. In a Philippine STAR news last Tuesday, January 25, 2011 (page 8), Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said that government officials and Catholic Church representatives met last Monday, January 24, 2011 to reconcile differences on the…

MANILA, Philippines – A non-government organization is urging the Labor Department to terminate existing subcontracting chains in the construction sector following the death of 10 workers in an ongoing high-rise residential project in Makati City.

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MANILA, Philippines—The Senate has started deliberations on proposals that seek to give equal employment opportunities regardless of gender. This includes allowing night work for women employees.

San Fernando City, La Union (27 Jan) –Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families, either displaced or presently working abroad were glad to have the inter-agency council for Migrants Concern here in La Union or the LUIMCO whose primary concern is the welfare and empowerment of OFWs in the locality.

MANILA, Philippines—For now, Charter change is not among the priorities of the House of Representatives, saying it needs ample time to be debated in plenary, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said Thursday.

The government has formed an inter-agency body to review the impact of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa) on the local economy.

Funds from controversial Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Subsidy Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under its chief, Corazon “Dinky” Soliman, as predicted, have been going to families who can hardly be considered the poorest of the poor.

MOTORCYCLE sales zoomed to a record last year, according to the Motorcycle Development Program Participants Association Inc. (MDPPA). Ma. Sheryl Santos, MDPPA secretary general, told The Manila Times that the sales of the group’s six member-companies last year totaled 759,849 units—the industry’s highest so far and 19.1 percent more than the 637,792 units sold in…

THERE is no need to come up with a responsible parenthood (RP) bill to compliment the pending reproductive health (RH) bill measure proposed in the House of Representatives, an RH bill author in the House said Wednesday. House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman noted that the responsible parenthood bill parallels Lagman’s House Bill 96 along with…

MANILA, Philippines – Here’s good news for aspiring overseas Filipino workers. The Philippine government is not halting the processing and deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) even to countries still “uncertified” by the government as safe destinations for workers.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Jan. 27 (PIA) — Men having sex with Men (MSM) tops the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) registry list as cause of the / Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in the region.

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 6) At least 10 workers, not 11 as posted, were killed at a construction site in Makati City when an electric gondola carrying them broke and sent them plummeting from the 28th floor to the 7th floor, according to a report on Radyo Inquirer.

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) Eton Properties Philippines, Inc. of tycoon Lucio Tan expressed its condolences to the families of 10 workers killed in Thursday’s accident at one of its property development projects in Makati City.

The Philippines is assessing how it can further benefit from the Philippines-Japan economic partnership agreement two years after the country’s first bilateral pact came into force.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) sent on Thursday an inspector to the Eton construction site in Makati City to investigate the company’s compliance with occupational safety standards in the building.

Southeast Asia’s mainland states are seen drifting away from ASEAN and into the warm embrace of China. RFA The route taken by ASEAN foreign ministers on their one-day road trip from Thailand to China. Twenty years after China and Southeast Asian nations forged official links, fears are growing that Beijing’s rising military and economic clout…

KUNMING / BEIJING -Foreign ministers from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday agreed to further promote strategic cooperation, which analysts believe sets a positive tone for China-ASEAN relations this year.

CEBU, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines PartyList has assured barangay and local government officials in Metro Cebu and other towns in the province of more assistance.

Three hundred female out of school youth from Cebu were granted Information and Communications Technology (ICT) vocational training in a deal signed between Cebu Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) and Informatics Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – The Society of Filipino Foresters Inc. (SFFI) is opposed to the imposition of a total log ban as proposed by Senate Bills 1360 and 21.72.

The monetary policy is still “appropriate” as inflation this year and next remains within the target range, Bangko Sentral Governor Amando Tetangco said.

THE Philippine Nursing Association on Tuesday belittled the move of the country’s hospitals’ group not to accept nurse interns for on-the-job-training, saying it will not impair the nurses’ chances for employment.

OFF-GRID utilities that source their electricity from state-owned National Power Corp. (Napocor) are appealing to President Benigno Aquino 3rd to address a power crisis in their service areas because of the government’s inability to secure their fuel requirements. In an open letter to the President, members of the Association of Isolated Electric Cooperatives Inc. (AIEC)…

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Malaysian households have been thrown into domestic chaos as a shortage of maids hits a country with a long-standing addiction to cheap foreign labour.

A new cycle of holidays will start in this new year, 2011. Our country has more holidays than most countries and some of them happen at the spur of presidential decision.