Monthly Archives: March 2012

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) recorded a total of 274 human immunodeficiency virus cases in February, the highest ever recorded in one month in the country based on the Philippine HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Registry Report.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino government will be working for the Philippines to be a “child-labor free” country this year, following reports that around 2.4 million children aged nine to 17 form part of the current workforce.

MANILA, Philippines — Domestic helpers, one of the “lowest valued economic activities in the country,” contribute more to the economy than mining, an independent research think-tank has said.

President Aquino’s leadership and resolve is at a test as he and his congressional allies are lobbied, bombarded and Noynoyed by divergent interest groups on two very live tax policy issues: a) the rollback of the VAT on oil products, and b) reform of excise taxes on cigarette and tobacco (“sin taxes”). Having just co-authored…

SINGAPORE — China may be slowing but its investment-led economic strategy still serves as a good model for countries such as the Philippines that want to boost growth and pull more people out of poverty, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said.

WORLD TRADE Organization (WTO) member economies last week called on the Philippines to create a more level and open business environment for foreign players.

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga—Owing to the fragile US economy, publicly listed BDO Unibank Inc. (BDO) estimates that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) may not exceed 5 percent this year.

RONALD Llamas, the controversial political adviser of President Benigno Aquino III, on Friday said the Democratic Left was gaining influence in the government with its push for peaceful reforms while the Communist extremists were becoming irrelevant with their call for armed revolution.

THE chairman of the House committee on energy on Sunday defended Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras from calls for his resignation over the growing power crisis in Mindanao. The power shortage in Mindanao is a complex problem that requires technical solutions that requires time to implement,” said Batanes Rep. Henedina Abad.

THE country’s biggest organization of doctors has criticized Malacañang for its “misleading” statement saying the quality of air in Metro Manila has improved, when it has not. Leo Olarte, The Philippine Medical Association’s governor for Manila, on Friday asked the Palace to check with experts before making supposedly scientific pronouncements on the metropolis’ air pollution…

THE Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) opposes Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara’s bill proposing to peg at only P14,000 the minimum monthly pay for nurse practitioners. The Angara bill actually seeks to demote our nurses, who, based on existing law, are already entitled to a starting monthly salary of P22,000.

PALAYAN CITY—Government and farmers groups have rejected the proposed privatization of irrigation services. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said such move would impair food security.

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 2.4 million children with ages ranging from nine to 17 are “employed” across the country, a report from the International Labor Organization said.

TWO “child warriors” of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) have been captured by government troops following an encounter in a mountain barangay of Quezon province.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is the most underrated country in the world, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said yesterday during a forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – The government moved yesterday to avert massive power outages in Metro Manila and ease the ongoing blackouts in Mindanao, with President Aquino presiding over a meeting at Malacañang on the energy situation.

MANILA, Philippines – Student leaders from the country’s top colleges and universities have joined various calls for Congress to pass the Reproductive Health bill.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) of the National Capital Region (NCR) said yesterday it saw no reason to raise the salaries of workers in Metro Manila before the one-year ban on increasing wages ends on May 26.

MANILA, Philippines – The local information and communications technology (ICT) industry is expected to contribute as much as $50 billion in annual direct revenues to the economy by 2016, a government official said.

MANILA, Philippines – After easing to its lowest level in 29 months, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees inflation rising due to soaring oil prices, higher food prices, and the continued weakening of the peso against the US dollar.

MANILA, Philippines—The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is taking action to help end violence against women and children.

MANILA, Philippines — Amid the rising cost of basic commodities, a labor group is pushing to raise the number of tax-exempt workers in the country.

An international trade confederation on Thursday said Philippine labor unions are facing an environment of violence and intimidation despite the country’s ratification of internationally recognized standards in the workplace.

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ZAMBOANGA CITY — The labor sector in this city is starting to feel the pinch of incessant and rotating blackouts, according to the Philippine Integrated Industries Labor Union or PHILU.

COTABATO CITY: Rows of rubber trees line the roads of Aleosan, North Cotabato, a farming community tucked into the heart of Central Mindanao particularly in North Cotabato.

MANILA, Philippines — The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has stressed that the quality of employment in January 2012 improved due to the expansion of remunerative wage and salary employment as well as the rebound of full-time employment growth.

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MANILA, Philippines – The National Wages and Productivity Board of the National Capital Region (NCR), after deliberations, found no supervening conditions that would warrant an early wage hike.