Monthly Archives: June 2014

MANILA, Philippines–They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two people were killed after they were hit by falling steel beams as they were inside a mess hall in a construction site in San Juan City on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – Two persons were killed when a metal beam fell on a canteen at a construction site in San Juan City yesterday.

Sure, everybody’s had those weeks where you just want to get home from work and flop onto the sofa until your headache subsides. But if that’s happening every week — well, you’ve got a lot of company, for one thing, but it shouldn’t be like that. Yes, we’re all working harder and getting little (or…

SINGAPORE – More Singaporean employers are now tapping the services of private investigators to trail their maids during off days and monitor their activities, according to The Straits Times report.

Thailand tops regional scorecard while Vietnam brings up the rear The Philippines’ top publicly listed corporations have improved their corporate governance (CG) practices over the past year but they need to work harder to catch up with peers from Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, according to the Asean corporate governance scorecard. The average CG scores of…

THE United States is very interested to promote entrepreneurship and innovation around in the Philippines and other developing countries to address the inequality problems.

The financial crisis that has affected the US and many other countries can be traced to bad corporate practices of lending to people who were likely to default on their payments. And default they did! So now the global economy is reeling.

As a manager, you can’t accept under-performance. It’s frustrating, time-consuming, and it can demoralize the other people on your team. But what do you do about an employee who isn’t performing up to snuff? How do you help turn around the problematic behavior? And how long do you let it go on before you cut…

MANILA – The ASEAN Economic Integration (AEC) offers immense business opportunities that both the government and the private sector must exploit to fully benefit from its advantages.

What is happening in our country now really calls for some radical and drastic changes. Such changes can only be realized through a revolution. This is not a revolution that entails the toppling of this government by raising arms against it. This is a revolution staged at the polling precincts starting at the 2016 elections.…

MANILA, Philippines – Listed companies in the Philippines recorded higher ratings in terms of corporate governance and investor protection efforts last year, a development that will help attract more investors in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – A 21-year-old helper died after he was pinned by two backhoes in a warehouse in Valenzuela City Saturday morning.

Maid in Brazil TO UNDERSTAND how maids are regarded by many in Brazil you only have to look at @AMinhaEmpregada (“my maid”), a Twitter feed that retweets the unpleasant, aggressive and sometimes racist things that some employers say about their staff. In 2011 there were 6.7m domestic workers among the country’s 201m people. These workers…

MANILA – Households dependent on wage earners have been wobbling from the swift rise in the prices of basic goods and services since May, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) said it would no longer accept hardcopy or paper-based contribution and loan collection lists from employers beginning July 1.

Preparing for rougher seas ahead: Bancas for the Philippines offers a platform to make a climate-smart technology – mass-based. In turn, more fishermen boost their resilience, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency. (Derrick Lim / Imagine Nation Photography) MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) has started building 5,000 units of…

I remember I met a young executive once while I was out on a dinner with friends some long time ago. One of our conversations led to his past employers, and my, I was so astonished to hear that many of his past employers –including the latest one- all happened to be my friends.

Kelly Sortino had a tough time recalling what she’d accomplished at the end of each hectic workday. Her job as head of the upper school for the Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, Calif., often required working 12-hour days, including weekends and evenings. She enjoyed the work but worried that she wasn’t accomplishing everything she…

This speech was delivered by New York-based fashion model and transgender rights activist Geena Rocero at the Democratic National Committee LGBT leadership council’s annual gala in the United States on June 16, 2014.

FOREIGN investors are keenly awaiting the outcome of the Charter- Change (Cha-cha) initiatives in both houses of Congress to relax the foreign-ownership restrictions in the country, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said.

With millions of pounds in the bank, you might have thought the world’s super-rich wouldn’t have a care in the world. But a new survey has revealed the top fears of the world’s wealthiest people, and one of the most common is that their money is their children’s ambition and drive to do well.

Biliran Geothermal Inc. is investigating a gas leak that downed at least eight workers in its geothermal plant on Biliran Island last Thursday.

Google has taken down a blog that listed ways to harass Singapore’s Filipino population, drawing praise from Internet users appalled by growing racial tensions in the city-state.

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WASHINGTON – A significant number of Filipinos who migrate abroad looking for work are subsequently subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor in Asia, throughout the Middle East and increasingly in Europe, the US State Department said.

Keynote Speech Sharephil Conference On Enhancing Share Value And Protecting Minority Shareholders June 18, 2014 Dusit Hotel, Makati City Her Majesty’s Ambassador Asif Ahman, Peza Director General Lilia De Lima, Sharephil Chairperson Evelyn Singson, Vice Chair Cherry Bernaldo, President Francis Lim, Sharephil Members, Honored Guests – Good Afternoon To All Of You. I’m Glad To…

WASHINGTON–Angered by anti-gay laws condemned here as “vile persecution,” the United States slapped sanctions on Uganda on Thursday, cancelling a military exercise and imposing visa bans on some officials. The legislation that Uganda signed into law in February “runs counter to universal human rights and complicates our bilateral relationship,” the White House said, demanding it…

The Department of Budget and Management on Thursday said it released P4.99 billion to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the implementation of the National Greening Program, which aims to plant 1.5 billion trees across 1.5 million hectares nationwide by 2016.

MANILA, Philippines – Parents of children found engaged in child labor would be subjected to counseling or possibly enrolled as beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) instead of being criminally prosecuted, according to Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman.

POLICE on Thursday refused to release the latest statistics one day after admitting a surge in crime while the Palace turned down calls to fire Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima and Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II for their failure to keep the peace.