Monthly Archives: March 2011

TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Philippines  – Mercury traces were found in three major rivers in this province, prompting the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) and the Mining and Geosciences Bureau to ask local officials to ban the use of the toxic substance by small-scale miners.

The opportunity is mind-boggling. The honor is undeserved. Yet my partners and I have been given the privilege to train thousands of executives from the middle- up to the senior-le-vel management of top business corporations in our country on the subject matter of leadership.

A proponent of the controversial Reproductive Health Bill belittled the Inter-Faith rally of the anti-RH groups, saying most Catholics favor the measure which promotes the use of artificial birth control.

THE HOUSE of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that seeks to integrate the study of the Labor Code in college to prepare students for uture work.

NEW YORK, NY – Dozens of Filipino migrant workers said to be employed at several locations of Carlton Cleaners in New York City claim to work below minimum wage and don’t even get overtime pay.

MANILA, Philippines – The British government’s 2011 budget will provide a firm basis for increased business between the Philippines and the United Kingdom (UK), it was learned.

MANILA, Philippines – As another oil price hike looms next week, the Aquino government is trying to put in place more mitigating measures to assist the food/agriculture sectors, a ranking energy official said.

MANILA, Philippines – Citing increases in fuel prices and the recent turmoil in oil-producing countries that have “burdened” the transport sector, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has granted a P1 provisional increase in fares for buses in Metro Manila.

TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Philippines  – Mercury traces were found in three major rivers in this province, prompting the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) and the Mining and Geosciences Bureau to ask local officials to ban the use of the toxic substance by small-scale miners.

In today’s Gospel incident, Christ broke through the triple discrimination tradition of His times: gender, race, and religion (Jn. 4: 5-42). Again, He insisted through His own example that when everything is said and done, LOVE is the one and only law of God for all mankind. In fact, love is precisely the very opposite…

Knee jerk reactions tend to emanate from baseless assumptions and wrongly conditioned minds. Often, knee jerk reactions are instances when emotions have prevailed over reason. In some cases, these are the results of the lie told too often and had been assumed to be the truth.

MANILA, Philippines – While struggling in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit their nation, Japan continues to support the development of conflict-affected areas in Mindanao as shown in the Japan-Bangsamoro Initiatives for Reconstruction and Development (J-BIRD).

MANILA, Philippines – The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) informed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) that there has been a 40 percent increase in the number of annulment cases over the last 10 years.

FILIPINOS can benefit a lot morally from the sad and costly experience that Japan—and the Japanese people— have been made to suffer these past two weeks.

SILANG, Cavite, Philippines  – Malacañang maintained yesterday that the Aquino administration’s position on responsible parenthood would not change despite the rally organized by the Catholic Church the other day to campaign against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill.

Under the chairmanship of Indonesia, ASEAN is on its course to become a single community with economic, socio-cultural, political and security pillars by 2015.

There is a saying that whenever the government needs money, all it does is increase the volume of money in circulation to trigger inflation, and people seldom know that an increase in the prices of almost everything they purchase would correspondingly increase the amount of taxes they pay. In fact, some say that government-induced inflation…

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has affirmed the Labor Department’s ruling allowing Philippine Airlines to lay off 2,600 employees as part of a program to spin off its ground service operations.

THE authors of the reproductive health bill have dropped a provision favoring two-child families and gave parents the option to opt out of sex education classes for their children, and in a bid to reduce opposition to the population management measure.

THERE’S another way of looking at yourself and determining the types of opportunities that you and your employees are most likely to take joy and pride in at work. Dave and Wendy Ulrich said that Marcus Buckingham and colleagues in his firm and the Gallup organization have also identified work-related skills and characteristics. The Ulrichs…

THOUSANDS of pro-life advocates and members of various religious groups on Friday converged at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park (Luneta) to show their opposition to the reproductive health (RH) bill pending in Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is drafting a P500-million nationwide assistance program to enable the transport sector to purchase diesel at P3 per liter lower than current prices, the country’s top energy official said yesterday.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines  – The Philippines and China are the most affected countries in the East Asian region by developments in Japan, the World Bank said.

MANILA, Philippines – Monetary authorities expect inflation to peak either in the second or third quarter of the year as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees consumer prices in March averaging between four percent and five percent due to escalating global oil and food prices.

MANILA, Philippines –  Slightly more than half of Filipinos favored making Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez face impeachment proceedings, results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey show.

Banks are reducing some cardholders’ interest rates, thanks to a section of the credit card reform law that requires them to review any rate increases imposed since January 2009. Millions of consumers faced rate hikes that year, as the economy tanked, banks teetered, and credit card reforms loomed.

Three workers from a construction firm in South Cotabato were killed Friday in an ambush by “armed natives”, the military said in a belated report on Saturday.

At least 15 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who were rescued from a tsunami-stricken shipbuilding facility in northeast Japan have been re-employed after opting to stay there, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

Last March 7, 2011, President Aquino, during the launch of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center, announced the first five PPP projects which will be subject to bidding this March to June. The PPP projects are: the P6.3 billion Metro Rail Transit Line 3, the P7.7 billion Light Railway Transit Line 1, the P1.6 billion Daang…

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