Monthly Archives: November 2011

With international scrutiny on the arrest of his predecessor, former President Gloria Arroyo, turning critical after a Brussels-based think tank branded her recent arrest and treatment thereafter as a show of vindictiveness, President Aquino through his spokesman said the Department of Justice-Commission on Elections (DoJ-Comelec) panel that filed an electoral sabotage case against Arroyo will…

From Nov. 18 to 20, three teenage boys aspiring to be robotics engineers trekked to Abu Dhabi to compete in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO). It was a much-awaited trip for the boys, who put in hours upon hours of whatever spare time they had left after school, as well as on Saturdays and Sundays,…

Developing countries that can’t afford traditional CO2 mitigation measures can now embrace black-carbon reduction In 1997, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Kyoto Protocol _ an agreement among signatory states to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Next year, however, the Clean Development Mechanism, a system of carbon credits in which each credit…

This time, it was the patients who gave the prescription. When pediatricians asked Filipino high school students what should be done to improve health and education, the answers were a revelation worthy of the attention of grownups.

MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of anti-child abuse groups and the Department of Social Welfare and Development launched yesterday an information campaign via social media sites in a bid to bring the battle against all forms of child abuse to cyberspace.

Inflation rate in November likely settled within a range of 4.5 percent to 5.4 percent, according to the estimate of the Bangko Sentral.

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CEBU CITY — A work standard for Filipino nurses and caregivers in Japan and the raising of tariff quotas for chicken and other agricultural items will be among the issues that the Philippines will raise when it reviews its bilateral agreement with Japan next month.

MANILA, Philippines – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) admitted yesterday that some of its officers failed to remit millions of pesos collected from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

BRUSSELS – The Aquino administration is being vindictive in its treatment of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo which could result in a damaged democracy, according to an executive of a policy think tank.

MANILA, Philippines – A House of Representatives’ panel has endorsed for plenary debate a bill providing additional benefits to single parents.

BACOLOD CITY—Two persons were seriously wounded on Friday when firecrackers exploded inside a makeshift factory in Sitio Kahilwayan, Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran town, 60.3 kilometers south of here.

There are many ways of skinning the capitalist cat. Instead of the Marxist cry for workers to unite to destroy the free enterprise system and replace it with Socialism, there is the rising trend towards workers forming cooperatives to engage in all types of business. I am glad to see more workers’ cooperatives in the…

MELBOURNE was judged in August 2011 as the most livable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit considering availability of goods and services, low personal risk and an effective infrastructure.umagoya.net

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Nov. 23 (PIA) — Some 79 Human rights desk officers (HRDO) from the Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) headquarters and the four police provincial offices underwent a 2-day seminar-workshop on human rights focusing on the practice of rights-based policing spearheaded by the Human Rights Affairs Office (HRAO) under Police Supt.…

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign direct investments approved by government agencies in the third quarter of the year rose by 32 percent compared to the same period last year, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported yesterday.

MALAYSIA-based computer whiz Arlene Teodoro packed his bags and flew home to the Philippines this year, going against the tide in an impoverished country that sends millions of workers abroad.

Business confidence showed an improvement for the final quarter of this year as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) periodic survey’s confidence index (CI) rose to 38.7 percent from 34.1 percent the previous quarter.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) yesterday blamed the communist New People’s Army (NPA) for 31 cases extra-judicial killings out of the total 32 recorded in Bicol region since January this year.

SOLGEN FAILED TO SHOW FROM WHICH LAW DE LIMA’S WLO GETS ITS POWER Power won’t last forever, Chief Justice Renato Corona seemed to caution government lawyers yesterday during the oral arguments into the suit filed by the Arroyo camp challenging the travel ban imposed on them by the Department of Justice (DoJ).

Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay urged all governments and international organizations to ensure that the rights and dignity of all migrants are protected.

None of PH companies surveyed have active corporate blogs or video-sharing services MANILA, Philippines – Like many of their Asian counterparts, businesses in the Philippines have been slow in integrating the social media into their operations, a survey by public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller (SEA) Pte Ltd. showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday dismissed a petition of a lawyer questioning the legality of Executive Order No. 883 issued by the previous administration in May last year that granted Career Executive Service Officer (CESO) rank to eligible lawyers in the executive branch.

MOBILE phones and social networking sites have become popular targets of cybercriminals, said antivirus software developer Trend Micro Inc. Myla Pilao, director for core technology at TrendLabs, said malware threats in Android phones surged by 1,410 percent in the first seven months of the year.

SAYS TRUTH, MORAL RIGHT AND PEOPLE ARE BEHIND HIM All signs and presidential speeches point to moves being made by President Aquino to ensure worsening the ongoing constitutional crisis and bringing it to a head in his bid to establish a dictatorship.

The Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) is pressing President Aquino to reconsider his views giving low priority on proposals to amend the Constitution by relaxing so-called anti-foreign capital provisions in the Constitution.

Two meetings in the last week of heads of government happened one after the other in two distant places that also claimed the schedule of our President Aquino. One was in Hawaii and the other in Bali, Indonesia.

Joint Foreign Chambers says doing business in the Philippines is getting more costly and difficult, urges economic reforms THE Joint Foreign Chambers and local business groups on Tuesday warned President Benigno Aquino III that time is running out on the economy because doing business in the country is getting costly and difficult.

A strong fiscal position is crucial for long-term growth. It also serves as a shield against future economic crises. Countries with robust fiscal space are able to pursue countercyclical fiscal policy when warranted, spending more when the economy is contracting, and generating large surpluses when it is booming. Sadly, Mrs. Arroyo left behind a fiscal…

New HIV infections and deaths from AIDS-related illness are falling worldwide, except in the Philippines and Bangladesh, where the number of new HIV cases continues to rise.