Monthly Archives: May 2011

MANILA, Philippines—The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is developing a “comprehensive HIV prevention program” for overseas Filipino workers and other most-at-risk population sectors in the Philippines.

Business sentiment is on a downturn with the periodic confidence index of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) at 31.8 percent in the second quarter from 47.5 percent in the previous quarter and 43.9 percent a year ago.

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The International Labor Organization is working with the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to educate Filipinos on how to distinguish child labor from “child work”.

Automotive importers and distributors are still bullish on their 2011 sales, saying their supply chain has remained intact amid disruptions encountered by the rest of the industry.

SUPPORTERS of the reproductive health bill on Wednesday challenged the Catholic Church to release to the poor some P12.9 billion it has locked up in shares of stock in the country’s third largest bank in assets.

MANILA, Philippines — There’s an acute shortage of almost everything at the Department of Education (DepEd).

OVERSEAS Filipino workers (OFWs) will be a matter of state financial policy under the Philippine government’s growth plan for the next six years.

We have an annual 15% turnover rate. To support our recruitment program these past five years, we have been doing an apprentice system designed to create a large pool of temporary workers that can be deployed anytime as soon as there are job vacancies. Unfortunately, we have limited success in moulding our apprentices to become…

FIVE GOVERNMENT agencies have agreed to step up efforts to prevent accidents in construction sites, following the death of 10 construction workers in Makati City early this year.

COMPANIES can set themselves apart from competitors by having a special focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR), an executive of a United States-based information technology services firm said.

THE GOVERNMENT Service Insurance System (GSIS) has approved a new system for collecting loan amortizations from members who have complained that the old scheme would eat up their retirement benefits.

THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Western Visayas approved Wednesday a P10 Emergency Cost of Living Allowance (Ecola) for commercial and industrial workers in the region.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines has not been making progress in meeting its sixth Millennium Development Goal, which is halting and reversing the spread of the dreaded HIV-AIDS disease, according to the country coordinator of the United Nations Program on HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS).

MANILA, Philippines –  The move for SAVE Act to be passed in the US Congress is gaining momentum in key cities all over the US, the Garments and Textile Industries Development Office (GTIDO) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

MANILA, Philippines –  Banks operating in the Philippines see the growth of money sent home by Filipinos abroad slowing down but expect steady growth in the amount of loans extended to corporate and individual borrowers this year.

MANILA, Philippines – Youth party-list group Kabataan said that the government’s neglect of its duty to maintain the quality of higher education in the country was largely to blame for the Philippine higher education institutions’ poor performance in a education quality audit conducted by an international education network.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Philippines has become a haven for fugitives due to the absence of a centralized biometric database of wanted criminals and the proliferation of fake documents, a multinational risk consultancy said.

EPIRA FAILURE: Next month is the 10th anniversary of the Electric Power Industry Restructuring Act (EPIRA) of 2001 that promised much cheaper and more reliable electricity.

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MANILA, Philippines –  Plenary debates over the Reproductive Health (RH) bill at the House of Representatives went out of control as these touched on other issues that included God and religion, House Minority Leader and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman lamented yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines –   The Department of Education (DepEd) bared yesterday the declining achievement rates in the past years of elementary and high school students nationwide.

The lobby in support of the SAVE Act which is pending in the US Congress is gaining momentum in key cities all over the country.

Merchandise imports grew by 21.2 percent to $5.523 billion in March from $4.556 billion in the same period last year, National Statistics Office (NSO) data released yesterday showed.

Output of local factories expanded by 11.1 percent in March compared to a year ago, the government reported yesterday.

A senator bared yesterday a strong lobby backed by multinational drug companies and certain “personalities” that are working for the enactment of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill saying that he will expose them in an appropriate time.