Monthly Archives: October 2011

CITING the lack of support for the 40-year-old birth control program, several groups have joined forces to ensure the family planning program achieves results.

Quezon City is really one of the richest cities in the country today. It may not be the main business hub, but its coffers have a huge surplus amounting to billions of pesos, thanks to the prudent and competent fiscal management of the past administration under former Mayor and now Speaker of the House of…

THE Philippines, already at the bottom of the list, fell two places further to rank 136th out of 183 countries in the world in ease of doing business during the first year of the Aquino administration, the World Bank and the International Finance Corp. said in a joint report Thursday.

COMMUNIST rebels attacked a Japanese-managed banana plantation in Compostela Valley Thursday, setting fire to heavy equipment worth P5 million before fleeing with six firearms, the military said.

Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) yesterday asserted that protesters encamped at the parking lot infront of its Inflight Center near NAIA Terminal 2 have no right to hamper the airline’s business by blocking entrances and exits of the said facility.

Despite all the hype about the country under President Aquino’s term being open for business and his administration’s institution of a level playing field, the Philippines slipped two notches to 136th from 134th last year in the latest edition of the World Bank’s annual “Doing Business” survey of 183 countries.

It was intriguing to read the Philippine Daily Inquirer column of Dr. Bernado Villegas on the Reproductive Health bill last Oct. 14. He said despite the inclusion of the RH bill in the priority list of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council, it seems there is very little probability that it will be passed even in…

MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 40,000 domestic seafarers onboard Philippine registered ships are expected to benefit from the government’s program to ensure decent work and labor standards in the local maritime industry.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said Wednesday that over one million jobs are still available in government job fairs nationwide.

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The Department of Interior and Local Government on Wednesday warned local government units not to collect pass-through tax, which is illegal.

FORMER employees of Philippine Airlines protesting their dismissal squared off with police Wednesday, who were sent to dismantle their camp near the company’s In-Flight Center at the airport, but both sides were armed with court orders.

QUEZON CITY  –  The Trade Union Congress Party (TUCP) through its Representative Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza today called on the Court of Appeals (CA) to reverse its ruling affirming the validity of the P14 billion settlement between the National Power Corp. (NPC) and Meralco in 2003.

EFFECTIVE corporate social responsibility programs must create a broader impact on the community, but laws must be in place to guide companies in the right direction, business heads and management experts said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) welcomed the move of President Aquino giving it an additional P1.1 billion fund for the grant of technical-vocational education and training (TVET) scholarships.

MANILA, Philippines – Bayan Muna partylist Rep. Teddy Casiño said yesterday he would ask the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) to explain the supposed cap on the use of renewable energy (RE) sources, particularly on solar power.

THE Department of Education (DepEd) revealed on Wednesday that they were able to reduce the number of high school students dropping out with nearly 2,000 secondary schools nationwide registering a zero dropout rate this school year compared to 56 schools last year.

ASIDE from being the Director of the DTI Public Relations Office, I also head the Garments and Textile Industry Development Office (GTIDO) as its Executive Director. When I assumed office this year, it was right smack in the middle of a long-drawn out advocacy campaign for the SAVE Act which began in 2008. It is…

TAURANGA, New Zealand: A New Zealand court heard of fears for the safety of Filipino officers from a stricken container ship Wednesday as a firebrand politician told protesters its captain should “hang”.

DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 20, 2011) – Communist rebels raided early Thursday a Japanese fruit firm in the southern Philippines, burning equipment and ransacked its arsenal, officials said.

The 1st Central Visayas Co-op Solidarity Council conference reels off today at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino in barangay Lahug, a three-day activity that brings together more than 700 coop leaders from all over the central islands.

INVESTORS ARE WILLING to wait for government to finish a fresh round of reviews of the much-delayed public-private partnership (PPP) program, since the need for caution is understandable, top executives of financial firms said late last week.

FOREIGN BUSINESSES are pressing the government to enact a competition law that had eluded its predecessors due to reported strong lobbying by affected parties. In a press release, dated Oct. 14 but e-mailed to reporters only yesterday, the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) said such a law would help spur business activity in…

Criss-crossed by active faults and located in the “bulls-eye” of storms, the Philippines is the world’s third “riskiest” country and is more vulnerable to rising sea-levels, subsiding land and warming temperatures than Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

CEBU, Philippines – Central Visayas has one of the highest numbers of jobseekers through Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) nationwide from January to September this year.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 15 million Filipinos still have no access to electricity, joining roughly 170 million more in the East Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent study by the World Bank and the Australian Agency for International Development.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine canned tuna production has gone down by around 20 percent this year due to the high seas ban on tuna fishing.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday announced its online job fair schedule until the end of the year.

MANILA, Philippines – Merchandise exports are still expected to grow this year although at a much lower rate of only three percent from the original target of 10 percent , the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reported yesterday.