Monthly Archives: February 2011

MANILA, Philippines – The government has stopped the deployment of Filipino workers in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, Malacañang said yesterday.

NESBRU – Government negotiators and communist rebels agreed Monday on a road map for continued peace talks aimed at resolving Asia’s longest-running insurgency by June 2012.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines, which ranks among the most corrupt countries, also holds the unenviable record of having the highest residential power rates not only in Asia but in the entire world.

James (not his real name) has two Facebook profiles. One has existed for over a year and the other was created just weeks ago. Recently, James, through his first profile, blasted a message and a status update saying that the second profile isn’t his and asked those who have accepted the friend request from the…

THE Asian Development Bank on Monday asked President Benigno Aquino III to consider giving tax reductions to credit card holders to widen the use of credit cards in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – State-run Government Service Insurance System said Monday that it will implement new guidelines on the grant of survivorship pension aimed at providing more responsive service to members and pensioners.

BUSINESSES’ shift to online processing of export documents, as required by the Bureau of Customs, has been slower than expected, requiring the postponement of the deadline for registration with this system.

THE GOVERNMENT yesterday updated Asian Development Bank (ADB) officials on the former’s governance, tax administration and poverty reduction measures during a routine visit, a Palace official said.

ABUSINESS group on Monday prodded the Aquino administration to prepare for a potential oil shortage as well as displacement of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East and North Africa amid changes in that region’s political landscape.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will establish the first Renewable Energy (RE) market to provide the venue for the issuance, trading and monitoring of licenses to comply with the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS).

VIGAN CITY, Feb. 21, 2011, (PIA) – – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) had announced that the members of the Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (RTIPC) affirmed its support in institutionalizing plant level reforms in Labor Standards Enforcement Framework and labor arbitration and adjudication system initiated by the agency. This is to foster…

MANILA, Philippines—At a time when college students would rather become nurses, chefs and seafarers, the Commission on Higher Education and the antipoverty NGO Gawad Kalinga have partnered to give agriculture a makeover and attract more students to the rather unpopular course.

MANILA, Philippines – The conditions are ripe for the Philippines to break free from years of subpar growth but an environment that draws and keeps investors is needed, the chief of the oldest foreign bank in the country said.

MANILA, Philippines –  US Senator John Ensign from Nevada has refiled the Save the Industries Act before the US Senate in a bid to help revive the local Philippine textile industry.

It’s not like Ramon S. Ang to gripe about the economy. The go-getter president of San Miguel Corp. finds challenge in any condition. But he has taken up a cause of late: to unpin the peso. If only the monetary authorities would stop restraining the currency, Ang believes it would spring to P35:$1, from the…

Objections to the RH bill continue to surface and are noticeably mounting. This time even the faculty members, students and alumni of the University of the Philippines who can really be considered the most independent and open minded sector in the raging controversy, “given the secular background of UP education”, have come out with a…

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) is expected to roll out a new government identification card in the first half of the year.

For the third quarter of its fiscal year ending December, flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) reported posting a modest gain of $15.1 million, an improvement over the previous year’s same quarter total comprehensive loss of $22.9 million.

MANILA, Philippines – Apart from the three whose execution has been deferred, there are 79 other Filipinos awaiting their fate on China’s death row, an overseas workers group said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—The state-run Philippine Health Insurance Corp. on Monday unveiled its own call center tasked to respond to inquiries of its members across the country.

MANILA — “Maid in the Philippines” was how its top export commodity used to be known, with millions of women from the impoverished country hired abroad as domestic workers.

February 18, 2011: MANILA, Philippines—If you are planning to renovate your house built in the 1970s, you may not be aware of the danger posed by such a job in terms of financial and health costs to your family. Homes built around this time are most likely to contain asbestos in their construction. Asbestos is…

MANILA, Philippines—Around 100 families were evacuated Sunday night following an alleged ammonia leak at an ice plant in Quezon City.

MANILA – Senators want to amend a provision of the labor code that seeks to better protect women, especially those in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies, working on graveyard shifts.

MANILA, Philippines – Beverly Hills 6750, which caters to the high end market for aesthetics and beauty market, has called for the creation of a cabinet level medical tourism council to address various issues affecting the industry and for the country to fulfill its vision to become a medical tourism destination and get a bigger…

MANILA, Philippines —  The House of Representatives has passed on to the third and final reading a pro-entrepreneurship bill that seeks to provide financial security blanket to government employees during their retirement.

There are so many Filipino seafarers or merchant marines —more commonly known by the politically incorrect label seamen—that there is a joke that at any given time, there is a Filipino in every square mile of ocean or sea in this world.

Brussels, 21 February 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international trade union movement has sharply criticised the failure of last week’s meeting of G20 Finance Ministers to focus on the global employment crisis.