Monthly Archives: July 2013

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – After a year and a half of recession, Europe’s battered economy could finally be showing signs of life.

MANILA – State subsidy to government owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs) jumped in June because of a huge increase in the financial support given Philhealth.

Palawan has dislodged Boracay as the best island for international travelers, based on a recent survey conducted by New York-based Travel+Leisure magazine.

Vice President Jejomar Binay regained his personal high satisfaction rating while the country’s top officials and institutions saw their ratings improve as well in the second quarter of 2013, pollster Social Weather Stations said Monday.

Investors await window of opportunity to come in MANILA, Philippines—After outperforming all expectations this year, the law of gravity has finally caught up with high-flying local equities. All it took was for US Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to signal the tapering of an aggressive monetary stimulus that had inflated emerging market assets to temper…

RETIREMENT AT 20? It’s never too early to prepare MANILA, Philippines – For 20-somethings like us, retirement may be the last thing on our minds. After all, with all our concerns with attending the hippest events, wearing the trendiest clothes, and purchasing the coolest gadgets, who has the time, energy, and money left for it?

MANILA, Philippines – Despite an aggressive tourism campaign and record high arrivals, the Philippines still remains one of the countries with the lowest tourist arrivals in Southeast Asia.

SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur—A Chinese national landed in jail here on Friday for allegedly abusing one of his employees.

MANILA, Philippines – Not only Filipino domestic helpers, but even Filipino nurses and other health workers are prone to recruitment abuses, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported yesterday.

DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / July 26, 2013) – The Philippine military has condemned the continued recruitment of minors by the communist rebel group New People’s Army and use them as combatants in fighting the democratic government.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in job creation, providing two thirds of all formal jobs in developing countries and up to 80 per cent in low income countries.

MANILA — Despite efforts of the government to increase funding for the farm sector, poverty incidence among agriculture households remain high.

MANILA — Despite its status as one of the top countries where gender gap is the narrowest, women in the Philippines who own land only account for a little over 10 percent of all landowners in the country, according to a study recently released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Food and Agriculture…

Citing inadequate accommodations, a group of Hong Kong-based domestic helpers is pushing for the scrapping of a policy requiring maids to live with their employers.

Cavernous. Dim. Quiet. It provided just the right hiding place. In its corner, I would sit. The corner was still too big for me as I curled myself into a ball; the bigger my belly became, the more difficult it became to hug my knees. Sometimes, the tears could come. Sometimes nothing. I would just…

Zamboanga Peninsula’s economy soared 12.4 percent in 2012 from 0.1 percent in 2011. This was the fastest growth in 2012 among the country’s 17 regions. The impressive economic performance of the region was brought about by the accelerated growths of the Industry and Services sectors.

LONDON – Nothing lasts forever but a global trend that set in 30 years ago shows no sign of ending: a steep rise in the share of income that goes to profits and a corresponding decline in labor’s slice of the economic pie.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) on Tuesday expressed doubts over the claim of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) that 81 percent of Filipinos had so far been enrolled in the government’s universal healthcare program.

Two workers died in a construction mishap Monday evening at the Iglesia ni Cristo’s Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan.

While Philippines economy is booming, the government is failing to create enough jobs for locals. Except in the tourism branch which is predicted with a very bright future, according to the fourth State of the Nation address, presented last week by Philippines president Benigno Aquino.

Chris Lagman vividly remembers the night that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) came into his life. It was two years ago, and the LGBT activist was at a pre-Christmas dinner party in Quezon City with a dozen gay Filipino professionals. During the course of the evening, a fellow guest and close friend asked if he…

MANILA, Philippines – Is the Philippines ready for full economic integration into Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community by 2015?

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BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Mining officials are still at a loss on how one of their employees died underground last July 20.

Sec. Abad: New expenditure plan a blueprint for inclusive growth A day after President Benigno Aquino III delivered his 4th State of the Nation Address (SONA), Secretary of Budget Florencio “Butch” Abad will be submitting to Congress today the National Expenditure Program for FY 2014—a blueprint of the Aquino Administration’s development agenda to sustain the…

LONDON (Reuters) – Global consumer confidence rose in the second quarter with more optimistic perceptions about jobs, personal finances and spending intentions in the United States, China and Japan, a survey shows.

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MANILA, Philippines – Did the President fulfill promises he made in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year? Rappler’s research team compiled the promises that President Benigno Aquino III made when he faced the nation in 2012 and tracked whether his administration has delivered on them.

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