Monthly Archives: January 2012

THE Department of Education has released P115 million financial assistance to 153 secondary schools that offer special education. Education Secretary Armin Luistro said DepEd earlier released funds to around 278 elementary SPED centers.

REMITTANCES, the economy’s saving grace last year as a result of the government’s lackluster spending, will grow more slowly this year because of the economic crisis abroad, the World Bank says.

Filipinos spent an average of 8.7 hours visiting social networking sites in October 2011, landing the Philippines on the sixth spot in the list of social networking countries as reported by research firm comScore.

MANILA, Philippines – When President Aquino was elected into office, the nation wrapped itself in euphoria. Filipinos were filled with hope as Aquino promised that he would finally be that leader the country needed.

GLOBAL executives are considering investing in Southeast Asia, except in the Philippines, according to a consulting firm’s international survey.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine economy is likely to expand by at least six percent this year as government spending improves, an economist said in a report.

MANILA, Philippines – Two lawmakers are proposing to institute reforms in the water industry to address what they described as the “perplexed and fragmented approach” in water resource and industry management.

TO reduce poverty incidence to 16.6 percent and to meet key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, President Benigno Aquino 3rd provided the biggest funding support to poverty reduction and other social services under the 2012 national budget.

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s population is projected to increase from 95.8 million to 97.6 million this year, the government said yesterday. In a telephone interview, Commission on Population (PopCom) executive director Tomas Osias, citing data from the National Statistics Coordinating Board, said the adjustment will be brought about by the 1.7 million Filipino babies…

The number of new HIV cases in the country jumped by nearly 90 percent in November compared to the same period in 2010, a Department of Health (DOH) report said.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Sunday reported a surge in the number of companies and contractors implementing their own occupational safety and health (OSH) programs last year.

In my parents’ house, the cooks and nannies, the drivers, houseboys and gardeners, the handymen and carpenters made easy friends among themselves–and then some It must be in the water, my father would mutter to himself, each time another domestic affair broke out in the open in my parents’ house. The servants seemed given to…

WE can’t spend the next 40 years repairing damage. There must be a way to avoid the repeated loss of lives, and sidestep annual economic dislocations. Over the last year, WWF and BPI Foundation studied four Philippine cities—Baguio, Cebu, Iloilo and Davao. Our objective was to take adaptation thinking to the next level and better…

MANILA, Philippines – The local stock market rose by a meager 4.07 percent last year, the slowest pace in 10 years, as natural calamities and financial turmoil took a toll on investor sentiment.

PHILIPPINE climate-change Imperative The sooner we realize that disasters are never natural but always a product of hazard and history, that a people’s vulnerability is not a given of place but derivative from the past, the better we are likely to understand what fate might await us in a world of changing climate.

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s population is projected to increase from 95.8 million to 97.6 million this year, the government said yesterday.