Monthly Archives: October 2011

A nationalist business group appeals to all Filipinos to patronize locally-made products as it launches its “Buy Philippine Made” campaign. Bayan dela Cruz, president of the National Economic Protectionism Association, told GMA News Online over the weekend that the Buy Philippine Made campaign, which the NEPA launched last Sept. 27, aims to demonstrate that the…

MANILA, Philippines – Doubling the broadband speed for an economy increases gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.3 percent, a new report conducted jointly by Ericsson, Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology in 33 OECD countries revealed.

Government should harness the millions of indigent families under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in national environmental programs starting at the barangay level to cope with the growing threat of climate change.

MANILA, Philippines – Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo is pushing for the amendment of the Local Government Code (LGC) to increase the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of local government units to enable them to promptly respond to calamities and support the implementation of development projects.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) should conduct a thorough investigation on the “tragedy” at the Keppel Shipyard in Subic, Zambales where at least six workers were killed and many others were injured after a huge, tons-heavy steel platform in the area collapsed, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada yesterday said.

The move to amend the Constitution has the possibility of going beyond the economic provisions despite the insistence of House leaders who are pushing Charter change (Cha-cha) that the proposed amendments will be made strictly to enhance the competitiveness of the economy.

New data from the Women’s Health Initiative indicate that hyperinsulinemia is an independent risk factor for breast cancer. This observation goes a long way toward explaining the well-established association between obesity and increased breast cancer risk, said at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Right. Reforming our investment laws is not a silver bullet. I don’t think advocates ever said that. There are other things to do and reform to make the Philippines investment friendly. Removing rules that discriminate against direct foreign investments is a good starting point for reforms.

MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Church yesterday joined the growing clamor for an immediate end to the prevailing labor dispute at the country’s flag carrier.

MANILA, Philippines – The US government has granted $15 million for the education and other services of Filipino children engaged in hazardous forms of child labor.

The U.S. Labor Department this week announced a list of the worst countries for abuses of child labor but held out only meager hope for improvement soon. India, Bangladesh and the Philippines are at the top. Several Latin American countries also made the list.

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PHILIPPINE Airlines service providers are shifting to high gear. PAL service providers are swiftly adjusting to the pace and new work set up for ground handling and catering at the flag carrier’s hub at NAIA Terminal 2.

BUSINESSES in Manila and Mindanao want the government to restrict the entry of Japanese goods covered by the Philippine-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA).

A NUMBER of lawmakers have warned that the benefits provided by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) would dry up in light of the P39.4 billion allocated for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program and the fixed rates of the new PhilHealth payment scheme.

SUBIC, Zambales, Philippines  – Five workers were killed and at least eight others were seriously injured, some of them reportedly losing their legs, in an accident at the Keppel ship repair facility in this town yesterday morning.

MANILA, Philippines – More than P5.923-billion worth of housing units and other assets owned by the Home Guarantee Corp. (HGC) are being occupied for free by informal settlers and evicted former owners, according to a 2010 Commission on Audit (COA) report.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said Saturday it will tap local government units (LGUs) to intensify it campaign against the worst form of child labor.

Labor leaders designated by President Benigno Aquino III to help oversee industrial peace have urged the government to work out a compromise between Philippine Airlines and its restive ground employees, in accordance with the mandate of the Constitution for the State “to provide full protection to labor.”

MANILA, Philippines (4th UPDATE) – The number of shipyard workers killed in an accident at the Keppel Subic Shipyard in Subic, Zambales Friday morning has risen to 6.

THE GOVERNMENT withheld P571.89 million from 19,063 kindergarten teachers who remain unpaid since June, ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio said Thursday.

THE United Nations estimates that 60 percent of the world’s population aged 65 and above will reside in Asia by 2050 that will increase market demand for quality healthcare.

The Aquino government should consider reducing the budget of the Department of Social Welfare’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program and channel its funds to the Philippine Health Corp. (PhilHealth) where it could be used to provide free medical and surgical procedures to its members.

Malacañang virtually backtracked from its plan to impound billions worth of budgetary allocations for unfilled positions in government in the Judiciary and constitutional bodies in the proposed 2012 national budget.

MANILA, Philippines—Five shipyard workers in Subic died while eight others were injured after the platform they were standing on fell Friday, police said.

Changing World MANILA, Philippines — The recent improvement in global competitiveness of the Philippines in the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranking leaves little room for complacency.  We are still behind all of our ASEAN peers, with the exception of Cambodia.

The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines is calling on its members to stand their ground and just say no to “revolutionary taxes” extorted by insurgent groups who threaten to commit more atrocities to disrupt mining operations.

Citing heavy losses to life and property due to recent typhoons, the Philippines pushed for the inclusion of climate change in the agenda of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

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“Will the Philippines become the next Asian tiger?” This was the question Dato Timothy Ong of Brunei posed to the academic, business and political leaders from the Asean countries that he had gathered in Manila last week to take stock of regional developments in the last year.