Monthly Archives: June 2015

From January to May this year, the Philippines deploys 55,961 domestic workers, lower than the 70,034 in the same months in 2014 MANILA, Philippines – Philippine deployment of household service workers (HSWs) to foreign countries went down by 20% in the past 5 months compared to the same period in 2014.

DAVAO CITY — Jepoy, 16, has been working for a sugarcane plantation in Bukidnon since he was 12 years old. At a young age, he decided to work to help his family for their survival.

There are 2.1 million child laborers in the Philippines. We must put a stop to this! MANILA, Philippines – Local Filipino artist and bands took to the stage on Friday, June 12 at the Rizal Park Open Auditorium to help raise awareness against child labor in the Philippines. The event marked Independence Day in the…

CEBU, Philippines- Cebu City has the highest prevalence rate of human immunodeficiency virus infection, in terms of males who engage in sex with males, among major cities in the country.

Merilyn Buhisan and her two teenage sons are among the millions of Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries who continue to enjoy health care benefits under PhilHealth. Merilyn Buhisan and her two teenage sons are among the millions of Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries who continue to enjoy health care benefits under PhilHealth.

By Iris C. Gonzales (The Philippine Star), June 15, 2015 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will have 23 new coal-fired power plants by 2020, Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said.

Labor strikes, wage increase, and historical issues are reasons many Japanese manufacturers want to exit China and enter the Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Around 200 Japanese companies in China want to relocate their bases here in the Philippines, as declining economic growth and rising wages there are making it difficult for them to continue doing…

June 15, 2015 From the Department of Budget and Management In response to the country’s growing population of students, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P31.8 billion to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the proposed construction or rehabilitation of 22,325 classrooms nationwide as determined by the Department of…

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cut its 2015 and 2016 growth forecasts for China and the rest of Asia, largely as a result of the slower than expected growth in the region’s largest economy and in developed economies elsewhere.

It is a sad story that is repeated each time a foreign domestic worker steps forward to file a case against her employer HONG KONG – Falling victim to a sexual predator is traumatic enough, but if you’re a foreign domestic helper in Hong Kong, the burden is much graver.

BAGAC, Bataan—An International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive on Thursday said global growth should remain moderate, with uneven prospects across many countries and regions, although he noted a changing recovery trend for advanced economies.

In the wake of the Group of 7 (G-7) industrialized nations’ announcement to limit global warming to 2 degrees, United Nations climate negotiators from the most vulnerable nations have questioned whether 2 degrees is too dangerous. Unfortunately, their call to focus efforts on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees were blocked by some of the…

Senate President Franklin Drilon expressed confidence Friday that the country’s preparedness for the ASEAN market integration has stepped up another notch with the Congress’ ratification of the Philippine Competition Act or the Anti-Trust Law.

As regional economic integration nears, Philippine businesses need to go digital and interactively engage with their market, says ABS-CBN’s chief digital officer Donald Lim MANILA, Philippines – With about 6 months to go before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) integration kicks in, many Philippine companies, especially in the manufacturing sector, are still unprepared…

From the National Economic and Development Authority Ineffective and counter-productive laws and regulations must be repealed to boost the country’s competitiveness and encourage investments, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

by Agence France-Presse, Jun 11 2015 MANILA – Filipino police have freed eight children from a house in Manila where they were allegedly sold for prostitution and forced to have sex for an online audience, authorities said Thursday.

Employees think performance reviews at work are irrelevant and a waste of time – what are your thoughts?

Today, employers are looking for a variety of talents, skills and personality traits in future candidates. This means that people who haven’t attended university, have just as much of a chance of getting employed due to the potential skills and experience that they have gained in the time that others have spent studying for a…

MANILA, Philippines – China continues to ignore calls to stop large-scale reclamation in the South China Sea while slamming the Group of Seven nations for being “out of step.” The G7 leaders issued a communiqué on Monday voicing opposition to Beijing’s large-scale reclamation and other coercive activities in the disputed waters.

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After 11 years of legal ping pong, retired female flight attendants of Philippine Airlines (PAL) won their gender discrimination case against the flag carrier following a favorable decision by a Makati regional trial court on May 22.

New ILO report shows the need for coherent policies tackling child labour and the lack of decent jobs for youth together. GENEVA (ILO News) – Around 20 to 30 per cent of children in low income countries complete their schooling and enter the labour market by the age of 15, says a new International Labour…

MANILA – Money plunked by foreigners to put up businesses in the Philippines or expand existing ones was halved in the first three months of the year.

One way Philippine businesses can increase their value is through better treatment of employees, which can lead to ’employee retention and employee productivity’

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In the Doing Business 2015 report for the Philippines released by the World Bank Group released late last year, the country ranked 95th in terms of ease of doing business. Malaysia was 18th on the list, Thailand 26th, Vietnam 78th, Indonesia 114th, and Lao PDR 148th.

Earlier this year, Container Store CEO Kip Tindell said one of the most important things a leader can have is high emotional intelligence.

All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills.

Brussels, 10 June 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The Gulf States are among the world’s worst countries for workers’ rights, while workers under European austerity measures endured the starkest deterioration of standards, according to the 2015 Global Rights Index.

A shocking statistic has emerged, which reveals suicide has overtaken maternal mortality as the biggest killer of young women in the world. Nisha Lilia Diu asks the experts why this is happening – and how we failed to notice