Monthly Archives: February 2012

PHILIPPINE cinema’s glorious years are no more. The once-lively movie industry is barely thriving, as can be seen by the number of movies locally produced every year.

MANILA, Philippines – Oil companies implemented yesterday a new round of oil price increases. Petron Corp., Pilipinas Shell Petroleum, Chevron Philippines, SeaOil Philippines and Total Philippines jacked up pump prices of regular and premium gasoline by 50 centavos per liter.

The Aquino government allocated P19.6 billion in counterpart funds for the government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program this year, registering a 56.8-percent increase from 2011’s P12.5-million counterpart budget.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino government continues to adopt a better and more transparent compensation and incentives system based on the performance of public institutions and of individual civil servants, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven out of 10 Filipinos remain satisfied with the performance of the Aquino administration, a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

ORMOC CITY, Leyte, Feb 14 (PIA) — The sugar planters in the Ormoc-Kananga Sugar District expressed their commitment to end child labor practice in the sugar industry.  

President Benigno C. Aquino III [seated, second from left] presides over the Philippine National Police Command Conference at the general headquarters of the PNP in Camp Crame, Quezon City. Joining him are PNP Director General Nicanor Bartolome, Local Government Undersecretary Rico Puno, and senior police officers.

SOME government agencies have bloated their budget for maintenance and other operating expenses in order to realize higher savings and grant more incentives to their employees.

The Philippines is considering tightening rules, cutting tax breaks and reviewing resource contracts in what could be the biggest revamp in its mining policy since a 2004 court ruling supporting foreign investment.

Outraged mining executives aside, it is right for the government to start heeding lessons learned from our sad experiences in the mining industry. Mining companies will always say that mining is good for the economy, that mining is booming, but who really gets the huge rewards from our country’s vast mineral wealth?

(AGI) Turin – A court in Turin has sentenced Stephan Schmidheiny and Jean Louis de Cartier to 16 years in the Eternit asbestos trial. The defendants were found guilty of environmental disaster and wilful omission of safety precautions. However, the judgement makes a distinction between the various Italian factories, declaring them guilty for Casale Monferrato…

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Following the drop in inflation rate to 3.9 percent last month, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) expects commodities price level to settle within the Philippine Development Plan 2011 to 2016 target of three to five percent for 2012, using the 2000-based Consumer Price Index (CPI) series.

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THE Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Labor and Employment warned that the recent ruling of a Quezon City court granting PMI Colleges a preliminary injunction on the closure of its non-compliant BS Marine Transportation and BS Marine Engineering programs in October last year threatens the country’s P3-billion maritime industry.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a comprehensive new database providing open access to the latest information on ILO international labour standards as well as national labour and social security laws.

BANGKOK (AlertNet) – The Philippines is looking at dropping the age of consent for HIV testing from 18 to 15 in order to tackle a substantial increase in infections among teenagers, a government official says.

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The Philippines may cut rice imports to about 100,000 tons in 2013, Agriculture Assistant Secretary Dante Delima told reporters Thursday.

Foreign tourist arrivals in the Philippines hit a record high last year, surpassing the government’s expectations and bolstering hopes the 10-million mark could be breached in 2016.

The peso climbed near the 41-per-dollar level Thursday on heavy trading volume of $1.5 billion, as the Philippines continued to draw foreign capital flows and remittances despite the renewed volatilities in regional stocks.

THE Supreme Court may step in to stop any abuse of discretion during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, noted constitutional expert Joaquin Bernas said Thursday.

Dear PAO, My husband has been working as a security guard in a security agency in Quezon City since 2005. However, he was not given a new assignment after the company where he was previously assigned has closed its operations. When my husband asked his operations manager for an assignment, he was told that he…

MANILA, Philippines – More than 61,000 foreigners are enrolled in different schools in the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said yesterday.

I give a lot of lectures on K to 12. At the beginning of each lecture, I give my cellphone number to the audience. They text me their questions while I am speaking, and I answer the questions in the course of my lecture. It is my way of getting instant feedback and adjusting my…

“DepEd teams up with Peñaflorida to bring pushcart education to more areas,” headlined the Philippine STAR Education page last week. Education Secretary Luistro launched with the so-called DTC (Dynamic Teen Company) the K4 outreach program to implement the “kariton” education delivery program of Efren Peñaflorida using 1 meter by 1 1/2 meters wooden cart to…

THE Supreme Court has given the Court of Appeals the power to litigate cases of “midnight appointees” of then-President Gloria Arroyo who were later sacked by President Benigno Aquino 3rd.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz is encouraging high school graduates to take training courses related to construction which is in demand not only here but abroad.

MANILA — The Philippine economy is projected to grow more than 4.6 percent in the first quarter of the year mostly because of the increased government spending, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said Wednesday.