Monthly Archives: December 2013

DAVAO CITY — Parts of the population, including small farmers, are still generally unaware of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economic integration scheduled for 2015, industry figures said.

MANILA, December 5 (PIA) — Quality of infrastructure in the Philippines is second to the last in the ASEAN region. Senior Research Fellow of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) Dr. Adoracion Navarro disclosed this during the forum “Financing Infrastructure in the Philippines ” held at PIDS.

The number of countries deemed to be an “extreme risk” for human rights abuses has increased by 70 per cent since 2008.

MANILA, Philippines – Eight agents of the environmental protection division of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been deputized to apprehend perpetrators of illegal mining activities that continue despite numerous court orders suspending illicit operations.

Recently, the World Bank undertook an assessment of the unemployment problems plaguing the Philippine economy. This analysis makes comprehensive use of Philippine labor data, notably those produced by the NSO (National Statistics Office). I will use this more recent analysis to explain the unemployment problem as an introduction to next week’s discussion of labor policy…

HOW will the Philippines’s property sector—which has been experiencing growth as of late—fare once Southeast Asian economies merge as one come 2015 when the region formally establishes an Asean Economic Community (AEC)?

ANILA, Philippines – When it comes to the impending ASEAN economic integration in 2015, the Philippines is cramming things it should have done a decade ago because bureaucracy got in the way then, the education chief said.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Labor Organization (ILO) sees slow recovery for the typhoon-devastated city of Tacloban in Leyte, but it said residents still have a better life ahead of them.

MANILA, Philippines – The government has embarked on a massive education and all-out awareness campaign to prevent the spread of AIDS, a Palace official said yesterday as the country joined the observance of World AIDS Day.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 700 barangay officials nationwide, including 89 village chiefs, are already senior citizens aged 71 years and older, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said.

Microsoft may no longer be alone in wanting to see its 12-year-old computer operating system Windows XP go away. At least two major tech companies—chipmaker Intel and device maker Hewlett Packard (HP)—are also preparing for the end of XP, tech site CNET reported.

The Philippines and Malaysia are expected to lead growth in Southeast Asia until 2015, thanks to reforms and projected roll-out of major infrastructure projects, British financial services giant Barclays Plc. said over the weekend.

Data from the Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry showed MANILA, Philippines—Almost 500 new cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which could lead to the fatal acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), were reported in October, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

MANILA, Philippines – Some 18,016 displaced people or 4,352 families in Haiyan-hit islands Samar and Leyte flocked to Manila on board the government’s C-130 flights from November 16 to 29, Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a radio interview on Sunday, December 1.

MANILA, Philippines – As World AIDS Day is marked today, the Department of Health (DOH) has reported close to 500 new HIV/AIDS cases last October, the highest ever recorded in a month in the country.