Monthly Archives: July 2011

Around 1 Mln Expat Transactions Processed: Al-Afasi KUWAIT CITY, July 18: The GCC countries have started coordinating their efforts to impose stricter rules on the recruitment of domestic workers, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting a reliable source. The source said the GCC nations are on the verge of approving a proposal to specify the countries from…

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THE PHILIPPINES’ innovation ranking has slipped 15 spots into the bottom 30% of a recent global survey as education and science development continued to fall while governance improvements failed to keep up with faster innovating economies. The country placed 91st out of 125 surveyed economies this year, from 76th in 2010, in the latest edition…

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Tuesday said that it will continue to prevent its homosexual jailguards from frisking inmates and visitors as it assures a gay rights group that there is no discrimination and it only wants to ensure the protection of both its personnel and the public.

ORION, Bataan—-A firm is putting up a P21-billion powerplant using American steam techology in processing garbage to generate electricity.

More than 12,000 employees of Philippine Postal Corp. in 2,000 different post offices nationwide are calling on Malacañang to act on their delayed salaries and benefits. Tirso Paglicawan Jr., president of the Philippine Postal Workers Union said that last May 1, 2011 a manifesto was sent by the union to the office of the President…

All men over 40 need a yearly checkup (this goes for the ladies, too). For those who are overweight or those with a family history of heart disease, diabetes or early deaths, you need to see a doctor even if you’re not yet 40. Listed here are the 10 most important health tips for men.

MANILA, Philippines – There are still 20 insurance companies whose certificate of authority (CA) had been withheld. The CA is an annual license to operate issued to life, non-life, and re-insurance companies, as well as mutual benefit association (MBA). The Insurance Commission (IC) is the issuing agency under the guidance of the Department of Finance…

AS THE country celebrates the 33rd National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week this week, persons with disabilities (PWD) in Cebu find little to celebrate, saying much still has to be done to improve the accessibility of public places to PWDs and remove the discrimination that PWDs face in society.

MEMBERS of the Philippine National Police have something to look forward to this year because besides the 20,000 housing units that will be constructed for them, the government is also finalizing the guidelines for the increase on the hazard pay of its personnel.

COLLECTIVE bargaining is the process of negotiating a contract between an employer and a legitimate labor organization, which has been duly certified as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of all employees included in a specific collective bargaining unit. The history of collective bargaining in the Philippines indicates that, in spite of its weaknesses in…

Filipino migrant workers in Saudi Arabia who get terminated from their jobs without a valid cause should get in touch with the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday.

The Recovery Of The Manufacturing Sector Accelerated To Its Fastest Pace This Year In June, On Growing Business Confidence In Japan And Softening Oil Prices, According To The The Asian Centre For Enterprise Development Inc.

MANILA, Philippines – About 200 military pensioners yesterday trooped to Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City to demand the release of their retirement benefits, coinciding with the start of the celebration of Pension Week.

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipino workers were hired abroad due to their lack of necessary skills and experience, local job recruitment industry leaders reported yesterday. The recruitment leaders said they were only able to fill up about 40 percent of job orders from abroad mainly due to lack of highly skilled Filipino workers.

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS), the state pension fund for private employees, has started production of new identification cards which may also be used to facilitate transactions with partner government agencies. In a press briefing yesterday, SSS president and chief executive officer Emilio de Quiros Jr. said the issuance of the new…

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board- National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) yesterday said it is pushing for excellence in the health and wellness industry in the country and is developing a training support to showcase the innate Filipino qualities of “caring hearts and healing hands”.

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LEGAZPI CITY, Albay, Philippines— With more than a million new jobs created in the agriculture and industry sectors last year, the country’s employment rate rose by 4 percent. The Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) said that subsequently, the unemployment rate dropped by .8 percent, from 8 percent in April 2010 to 7.2 percent…

TAGUM CITY, Philippines –Suspected New People’s Army rebels burned equipment of a mining company partly owned by an American miner in Pantukan, Compostela Valley, the military said Monday.

An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive MANILA—THE Philippine embassy in Baghdad said Filipino workers are not affected by the plan of the Iraqi government to deport illegal foreign workers. This is even if 2009 stock estimates on overseas Filipinos by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas show that there an estimated 2,800 irregular Filipino workers…

MANILA, Philippines – About 521,253 Filipinos became naturalized citizens of eight countries part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). OECD’s 2011 International Migration Outlook bared that 386,739 Filipinos became naturalized citizens of the United States from 2000 to 2009.

FILIPINO online consumers remained among the most optimistic in the world in the second quarter amid a record drop in confidence globally, ranking second behind India in a new Nielsen survey. The confidence index for the Philippines improved five notches to 115 in the first quarter, data from the The Nielsen Co.’s quarterly Global Online…

SINGAPORE — Asia’s major economies are set for a modest slowdown in coming months, while next year’s growth prospects hinge on how quickly inflation cools at home and demand recovers abroad, a Reuters poll showed. Economists have trimmed their 2011 and 2012 growth forecasts for China, India, and a handful of the other economies in…

What can drive a wife to such a gruesome act as cutting off her husband’s penis? In the news last week, 48-year old Catherine Kieu Becker reportedly drugged her husband’s food. And when he had lost consciousness, she tied him up to the bed and, with the use of a kitchen knife, proceeded to sever…

THE government will shelve a plan to put up a fund for Public-Private Partnership investors amid the domestic market’s excess liquidity. Finance Secretary Cesar Pursima told reporters that the government would defer its plan to provide financial assistance to investors that would qualify for PPP scheme in an effort to decongest the capital markets’ high…

Last of two parts (Ric Saludo’s colleague Bill Huang contributed this guest column.) IN tapping its nationals abroad, India has gone from indifference to engagement within the past decade. The first prominent achievement may have been its successful issue of foreign-currency-denominated “Resurgent India Bonds” in 1998, marketed specifically to non-resident Indians (NRIs) on the heels…

MANILA, Philippines – It used to be that a college diploma is a ticket to a secure future. As it is, the traditional view of education in the Philippines is that we proceed to college after finishing high school and then find a job after graduating.

MANILA, Philippines – Energy expert Alan Ortiz believes that the promise of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) to bring down power rates will be realized in two to three years time. Ortiz, who is now the president of San Miguel Global Power Holdings Corp., said that power rates would go down by 25…

SURIGAO CITY, Philippines – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz assured the public that not all of the 1.5 million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia will lose their jobs due to the Saudization policy because most of them are highly skilled.