Monthly Archives: February 2012

The president of the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (Fasap) failed to show any direct evidence linking Chief Justice Renato Corona to the Supreme Court en banc’s order recalling an earlier SC ruling on the PAL-Fasap case.

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Legazpi City—Albay Governor Joel Salceda said the economy will post a 5.7 percent growth rate in the first quarter, a leap from the 3.7% level last year which was less than half of 2010’s 7.6%.

DISTRIBUTORS on Tuesday raised regular gasoline prices by P0.60 a liter, premium gasoline and diesel by P0.25, and kerosene by P0.30.

A 50-year-old group of jurists, lawyers, academicians and prominent businessmen marking the annual celebration of Constitution Day today has expressed concern over what they call an assault on the Constitution by politicians to promote “personal and vested interests.”

MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon, Feb. 7 (PIA) – As a response to the reported high number of child laborers, provincial mayors and private corporations recently signed the Commitment of Intent with the International Labor Organization-International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) to address this issue on child labor.

When presidential adviser for political affairs Ronald Llamas was caught on camera buying pirated DVDs, the public reacted with amused incredulity. Ang malas naman nya! What bad luck!

I RECENTLY needed to scan and post a book excerpt for a class I teach but wanted the pages to be available as text, not images. That meant using optical character recognition or OCR software that can translate scanned pages from my book to machine-encoded text.

MALOLOS CITY—-The Bulacan Environment and Natural Resources Office has fined and ordered Glo Siphoning Septic Tank & Declogging Pipelines Services to explain why its license should not be revoked for alleged pollution.

The ongoing impeachment trial rightfully deserves plenty of attention. The quality of our lives as citizens is affected greatly by the quality of our justice system. Irrespective of the verdict that the Senators will hand down, I am hopeful that they will arrive at it with prudence and care in order to leave our justice…

THE chairman and chief executive officer of Ayala Corp., Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, said on Monday that the Philippines has to compete like companies for its people.

THE communist New People’s Army (NPA) remains active in Nueva Ecija and Aurora even as these provinces had long been declared insurgency-free.

THE United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) said on Monday that its headquarters in Bangkok had hosted a discussion to find ways to speed up progress toward a region free from the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

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The Bangko Sentral has not detected signs of asset price bubbles yet, but is closely watching the housing market, which could become a source of concern.

Very few realize that to produce a single gold ring, 20 tons of mine wastes are generated. And where does all mine wastes go? To the rivers, the water systems, the air, the soil, the animals and the plants. Eventually, these toxic wastes will find themselves lodged in human bodies.

Some proponents of renewable energy are getting desperate. They have apparently engaged some PR professionals to get media behind their attempt to unfairly benefit from a government imposed subsidy supposedly to save the environment. Thus far, they have failed to get what they want, thanks to a group of economists and public policy advocates who…

MANILA, Philippines – Private economists further slashed their inflation forecast for the Philippines this year and next on the back of fragile global economic growth due to weaker than expected expansion in advanced economies led by the US and Europe, a survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS), the state-owned pension fund for private employees, is ready to invest as much as P50 billion in the government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program for infrastructure, its top official said.

President Benigno Aquino III has set a lower deficit cap for the current year, setting sight on a 2.6 percent limit for fiscal year 2012, lower than the target set for 2011.

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Malacaang may have lost the trust and support of the jeepney drivers on issues concerning the spate of oil price hikes, but it has certainly embarked on a potential friendship with the bus drivers and conductors who now stand to receive not just a fixed salary but also daily perks as incentive.

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THE economy’s poor showing bolsters arguments for revamping the government’s poverty-alleviation policies. President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd and his economic managers should abandon doles outs in favor of sustainable and dignified means of uplifting the lot of poor folk, such as creating jobs.

MORE journalists were killed during the first two years of President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s term than during the same period under the administrations of then-Presidents Gloria Arroyo, Joseph Estrada, Fidel Ramos and Corazon Aquino, the National Press Club of the Philippines and Alyansa ng Filipinong Mamamahayag (Alliance of Filipino Journalists) said on Thursday.

AT least 2.8 million Filipinos, or 7 percent of the population 15 years old and over, were unemployed in 2011, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said in its Labor Force Survey on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Bank of America-Merrill Lynch says investors are bullish on the Philippines because many stocks have little or no exposure to the weak economies of Europe and the US.

MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan, Philippines — The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is aiming at 60 percent employment rate for their 1.2-million graduates by next year.

FEF REACTION: Reacting to our Postscript last Sunday on the Aquino administration’s renewable energy program, Calixto V. Chikiamco, president of the Foundation for Economic Freedom, published in the FEF website a purported letter to our editor saying: