Monthly Archives: August 2013

MANILA, Philippines – The number of unemployed Filipinos rose by one million in the first quarter of the year, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said.

MANILA, Philippines—Household service workers (HSWs), better known today as the kasambahay, need not endure sufferings at the hands of abusive employers.

MANILA, Philippines – Like the government’s weathermen, Philippine air traffic controllers, pilots, and professional aerobridge operators are leaving their posts, lured by high salaries offered by the emerging Middle East airports.

America has changed the way it measures GDP ECONOMICS is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity…

By 2016, nations around the world must meet a deadline to end child labor. In the Philippines, much remains to be done. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), there are about 5.5 million children in the country who working, with 2.9 million in hazardous child labor like mining, deep sea fishing and other dangerous…

AT LAST, August is upon us. The summer fruit is plump and the sea is warm. You can almost hear the warbling melody of “La Mer”, Charles Trenet’s ode to the seaside. In summer Europe’s natural order is inverted. The urban become rural. Big cities disgorge their citizens and suck in foreign tourists. Northern Europe…

LACK of jobs remains one of the country’s biggest problems, the World Bank has said, and even if the economy continues to grow at its current pace, some 12.4 million Filipinos would still be underemployed or without jobs by 2016.

TUGUEGARAO CITY—Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation arrested 18 Chinese on charges that they were conducting illegal mining operations in a coastal village in Aparri town.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed with finality the disqualification of party-list group Alliance For Reform Towards Effective Management and Sustainable Development Inc. (ARMD) from joining last May’s elections.

In any situation at any given time, the ethical person seeks to fulfil a simple credo: To do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. Oftentimes this can be a difficult task. What is right is sometimes unclear by the murkiness of a world marked by moral dilemmas. Doing what is…

MANILA — Child labor remains to be a serious problem in the Philippines, with millions of children working in hazardous circumstances.

Inihayag ng dalawang lider ng Kamara de Representantes na isusulong nila ang panukalang batas na naglalayong alisin ang diskriminasyon sa iba’t ibang sektor kabilang na sa lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT).

A NEW survey from the Money Advice Service finds that more than half of Britons are struggling to pay their bills and service their debts, despite record low interest rates. Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 index is up 16% this year. In the US, median real household incomes rose just 0.1% annually in June (on an…

MANILA, Philippines – A 23-year-old operator of a wire-drawing machine was found dead in an industrial plant in Valenzuela City Wednesday afternoon.

MANILA, Philippines – The Sandiganbayan has ordered the arrest of 13 former officials of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) for allegedly granting behest loans to a private firm owned by businessman Roberto Ongpin in 2009.

MANILA, Philippines – Investments approved by the country’s four major investment agencies the Board of Investments (BOI), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and Clark Development Corp. (CDC) – went up 39 percent in the first semester from a year ago, showing the increasing interest of investors here amid an improving…

Many women from developing countries who migrate to richer nations in Asia and other regions for jobs as domestic workers experience abuse, illness, mental health problems and limited access to medical care, an extensive new review of more than two decades of scientific studies confirms.

Nearly P301 billion worth of investments approved from January to June this year are expected to create about 78,000 new jobs when the projects are in full operation, the four major investment promotion agencies of the Philippines said Thursday.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz urged undocumented Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia to take advantage of job openings as more companies are seeking to hire workers, especially in Jeddah.

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz urged undocumented Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia to take advantage of the increasing job openings in several areas in the Kingdom, particularly in Jeddah.

MANILA, Philippines – After scrutinizing the 2014 budget for education, Sen. Ralph Recto revealed yesterday that the government is expected to hire 33,194 teachers, build 43,183 classrooms, and buy 42.6 million books next year.

The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will accept applications for its new housing loan restructuring program beginning Aug. 1, 2013.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has unveiled an electronic learning or e-learning software program to help develop English language skills that will make one qualified for employment in call centers.

There were around 1.7 million self-employed professionals in the country who paid a total of P9.8 billion in taxes in 2010, or an average of only P5,764, according to Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares.

Four days after President Aquino delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address on July 22, Pulse Asia released the results of its June 20-July 4 survey that showed the President and Vice President Jejomar Binay continuing to enjoy high approval and trust ratings from a large majority of Filipinos.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the reported economic gains achieved under the Aquino administration, four in 10 Filipinos think the state of the economy remained “unchanged” from the previous year, according to a recent survey by Pulse Asia.

MANILA, Philippines—Two public school teachers’ groups have called on the Bureau of Internal Revenue to change “outdated” tax exemption levels that have made them lose a large part of their salaries to taxes.

Public school teachers were not happy that they were made the poster boys and girls of the Department of Finance (DOF), which ran a print ad Wednesday showing that they were making more money than half of the lawyers and doctors in Makati City as what their tax returns showed.

Knocking down gender barriers like land ownership and access to credit is key to ensuring food security in Asia-Pacific, according to new report published by the Asian Development Bank.

San Diego, California (NAPSI) – Should you be taking the medications you’re taking? If you’re 65 or older, that’s an important question to ask yourself and your healthcare provider. Why? Because some commonly prescribed medications can actually be harmful for older adults.