Monthly Archives: March 2015

MANILA, Philippines – When Filipinos are asked to describe their financial status, whether based on income or purchasing power, 3 terms are usually heard: mayaman (rich), may kaya (well-off), and mahirap (poor).

MANILA – The Supreme Court has ordered courts not to be too strict in interpreting the provision on psychological incapacity as a ground for the nullity of marriages.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has taken a liberal stand in allowing the annulment of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity. The SC reversed itself and nullified a marriage of private individuals, saying that a strict implementation of the rules would allow diagnosed sociopaths, schizophrenics, narcissists and the like to stay married.

The Philippines has consistently scored well in global surveys on gender equality but how do these indicators translate to life for women on the ground? MANILA: The Philippines consistently ranks high in global surveys for gender equality, resting in the top 10 above all Asian countries.

There is a saying that it is always darkest before dawn. That is true with what is happening to the Philippines today. It was darkest with the brutal killing of 44 SAF in Mamasapano. But it also promises a bright morning with more Filipinos becoming politically aware. They now know that they have to be…

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The government encourages women in all sectors of the society to take part in leadership and to drive for excellence MANILA, Philippines – “[What] we want is representation. We (women) comprise almost 50% of the country’s population; therefore we should be part of the leadership, the power and decision making.”

The survey, involving domestic workers from the Philippines, Myanmar and Indonesia, is to assess these workers’ mental well-being by getting their views on the living and working conditions in Singapore.

Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening Mar 7th 2015 | From the print edition Timekeeper “IT’S all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,” says Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, a posh English boarding school. “There’s a mentality that it’s…

How big of a problem is violence against women in the Philippines? Why should it concern you? MANILA, Philippines – Violence against women (VAW). The Philippines is no stranger to these 3 words. It is real, it is happening, it is claiming lives.

Power from the People FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, March 2015, Vol. 52, No. 1 Florence Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron The decline in unionization in recent decades has fed the rise in incomes at the top Inequality has risen in many advanced economies since the 1980s, largely because of the concentration of incomes at the top…

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Employees specializing in IT are the highest paid ones, according to the Annual Salary Report 2015 of Jobstreet.com Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Looking for a job or specialization that pays well? The latest report of an online job search site listed the top 10 highest-paying ones that might suit you.

(Bloomberg) — Business activity expanded in each of the euro area’s four largest economies for the first time in almost a year, signaling that a fragile recovery is slowly becoming more sustained.

A total of 1,257 OFW members of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) had received over P800 million in financial aid since the establishment of the agency’s Reintegration Program in 2011.

INFLATION is a disease that can wreck a society, Milton Friedman, the late Nobel laureate economist, once said. Add rising unemployment to the diagnosis, and his profession ascribes a rather non-technical term to the debilitating effect on people: “misery”.

From the forums in Davos to the protests taking place on the streets: inequality is the defining challenge of our time. It hurts economic growth, denies workers their fair share and robs families of their hopes for a better future.

“We all know great concepts are attractively elegant. Yet the underlying realities do not necessarily agree with the beauty of the theory,” Mr. Pangilinan told the members of the ASEAN Law Association during its 12th General Assembly.

Women make up over half of our population. Their contribution to society has been incalculable, but disparities clearly remain between the fulfillment of their needs, on the one hand, and the services and protections afforded them by the state, on the other.

LAGUNA, Philippines – A lineman died while two others were injured after they were electrocuted as they were working on a power barge of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines in Bay town here Saturday.

Posted on March 2, 2015 Statement of the Office of the Cabinet Secretary: On post congestion [Released on March 2, 2015] We are pleased to report, that with the combined efforts of the Cabinet Cluster on Port Decongestion, the Technical Working Group of various agencies, and the cooperation from the private sector, operations at the…

MANILA – Filipino workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) in Korea enjoy most rights and wages accorded to their Korean counterpart.

GENEVA – More than one billion young people risk damaging their hearing through listening to loud music, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

MANILA – The Philippines is now the twelfth biggest grower of genetically modified (GM) crops. This was achieved in 2014 when 415,000 farmers planted Bt (Basillus thuringionsis) corn in 831,000 hectares, enabling the country to maintain its rank as among the world’s “biotech mega-countries” or nations that produce GM crops in 50,000 hectares or more,…

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