Monthly Archives: April 2012

Looks like the Liberal Party (LP) still tries to project a holier-than-thou image, which is quite hypocritical, besides which, the cleaner than clean image they tried to project in 2010 no longer works, considering the even greater corruption in the Aquino government today.

Outside of the monoliths, Liberal Party (LP) and Nacionalista Party (NP), few other political parties had made a lasting impression in terms of fielding reliable bets for the periodic polls and those political groups that mount a challenge against such parties were parties usually formed by the incumbent.

President Aquino’s convening of the Mindanao Power Summit this Friday will only be for show as agreements to jack up power rates in Mindanao and put up environmentally-hazardous coal plants were already sealed during a pre-summit meeting organized by the Department of Energy last week, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño said.

The Philippines must strengthen overall competitiveness through enhancing competition including reducing the cost of doing business, and addressing infrastructure and service delivery bottlenecks.

The Philippine peso remains competitive as its volatility and movement remains in the middle of the range in the region on account of the weakness of the US’s economy and the Euro debt crisis.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has hailed Solaire Manila, the world-class fully-integrated resort and gaming complex in Parañaque City, citing the more than 4,600 new jobs the project would create.

A research firm shows a big concern on the employment of Filipinos, particularly the youth, which are the most affected segment of the population by the global financial crisis and availability of jobs.

Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano yesterday threw his support to a union leader sacked by the management of banking giant Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), a month before Labor Day.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has the fourth “most optimistic” community of business leaders in the world as strides taken in easing the cost of doing business likely negated other concerns like the tension between the Executive and Judicial branches of government.

Electricity users in power-strapped Mindanao are up in arms against government plans to build more coal-fired plants to relieve the critical energy shortage, warning that these would lock the island into a polluting source of power. The warning was sounded ahead of the energy summit in Davao City at the weekend by the environmentalist foundation,…

Mindanao is now experiencing frequent power failures. Given the nature of the problem, the situation is expected to get worse before it gets better. That should not come as a surprise. As early as two years ago, energy experts have been predicting such power outages in Mindanao and the Visayas. Yet, the government has failed…

Malacañang said on Tuesday the scheduled energy summit in Mindanao would not be a “farce,” as claimed by some critics, since a “consensus” is expected to be reached on how the power problem in the region would be solved.

PUBLIC SATISFACTION with the performance of government officials in the line of succession to the presidency is highest for Vice-President Jejomar C. Binay, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey found, with personal bests garnered by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Feliciano R. Belmonte, Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Renato C. Corona ranked…

Most businesses and individuals who avoid paying taxes are based not in Metro Manila but outside the National Capital Region (NCR), according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

ALTHOUGH the mining industry’s contributions to economic growth have been cited as among the largest, the industry’s full impact particularly on employment and the domestic economy continues to be limited, according to an assessment made by the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

Even Malacañang has acknowledged that there is now an oversupply of nurses in the country and has advised jobless nursing graduates to look for alternative jobs or join the government’s health programs where there is a dearth of health workers.

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The Philippine population as of 2010 has reached 92.34 million, higher by 15.83 million than the 76.51 million in 2000, the National Statistics Office (NSO) has reported.

Malacaang is calling for the cooperation of local government units (LGUs) in stopping illegal child labor in some 80 barangays which have been identified by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

A day after the controversial Manny Pacquiao victory over Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12, 2011, a call center agent in Manila handling a foreign satellite television account got a call from someone he suspected to be Mexican.

MANILA, Philippines — The robust business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has fueled growth of the country’s fast food chains that proliferate in areas near BPO centers.

More than 112 billion cubic meters, or 70 percent of the country’s total water resources, are lost or wasted each year, due to leaks and illegal connections, among other reasons given in a study by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

MANILA, Philippines – The deployment of household service workers or domestic workers continues to soar each year as the demand for Filipino maids remains unabated, especially in the Middle East.

Financial transactions-related complaints have risen more than twentyfold the past six years, led by issues on the use or abuse of credit cards, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said.

MANILA, Philippines – The local business process outsour-cing industry (BPO) is promoting a well-rounded lifestyle for employees to sustain its growth momentum and deliver client expectations.

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The Philippines has failed to stop the spread of HIV-AIDS, the head of a United Nations program on the dreaded disease reported Tuesday. Teresita Marie Bagasao, head of the Manila office of the United Nations Program on HIV-AIDS (UNAids), said that “while the absolute number of HIV infections in the Philippines is still relatively low,…

THE current clamor to increase the minimum wage is prompted by a number of reasons, the most important of which is the rise in the price of crude oil. Under the law, the minimum wage can only be adjusted once within a period of 12 months.

MANILA, Philippines – Some 2.3 million young Filipinos were in vulnerable forms of employment in 2010, the International Labour Organization said.

There were more than 1.5 million unemployed Filipinos between the ages of 15 and 24 last year, the International Labour Organization said Wednesday, prompting the Geneva, Switzerland-based labor institution and the Philippines to forge a strategic approach to the problem.