Monthly Archives: July 2015

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday arrested 180 Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indonesian nationals who were working illegally at an online gaming and call center company in Parañaque City.

FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, June 2015, Vol. 52, No. 2 Montfort Mlachila, René Tapsoba, and Sampawende Tapsoba High growth alone will not improve social conditions Translating strong growth into better living conditions is the holy grail for policymakers in developing economies, many of which have experienced strong economic growth in the past decade. But poverty, inequality,…

BY the end of this year, the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will proceed with regional integration by creating the single-market Asean Economic Community (AEC).

Search and retrieval operations for three miners lost in a mine collapse on Semirara Island in Antique are being hampered by the sheer amount of soil that equipment has to dig through.

If you have made it through to the final interview stage and on to the final interview presentation then a soft whisper of a congratulations are in order! By this stage you clearly have the personality and skills that your potential employer is looking for – now it’s time to seal the deal. Problem is,…

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two pocket miners died of gas poisoning while another one died in a landslide in separate mining sites in Tublay and Itogon towns.

MANILA, Philippines – Young math wizards from the Philippines bagged two silver and six bronze medals at the 18th Po Leung Kuk Primary Mathematics World Contest held in Hong Kong last week.

Philippine colleges and universities have to make ‘hard decisions’ whether to increase graduate programs, or develop niches in the undergraduate programs in order to produce the manpower needed in the ASEAN region

Comparison will be inevitable in a post-ASEAN integration era. How are rankings influencing the Philippines’ higher education sector?

An official of the local government of Caluya, Antique on Saturday announced the retrieval and identification of a fifth victim of a mining site accident. The body of Bernie Manrique, 39, was found during retrieval operations at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, Pauline Rose L. Geroche, municipal information officer of Caluya, said. “We now have five (5)…

Authorities extricated on Saturday another body under the rubble of the collapsed mine wall at Semirara coal mine in Caluya, Antique, bringing the total number of fatalities to six, while three others have remained missing, a report from GMA’s “24 Oras” said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine and Japanese governments signed an Action Plan on Industrial Cooperation as part of their commitment to strengthen economic ties.

The Philippines has remained “off” its target to break into the top third of global rankings by 2016, even as the country has been identified as the “most improved” economy in four important global competitiveness indices.

MANILA, Philippines – Manila, the country’s capital, has regained its glory as a prime investment destination after being named as this year’s most competitive city, according to a report by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC).

SEMIRARA INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF ACCIDENT SEMIRARA Mining and Power Corp. is investigating an accident that led to the collapse of its open-pit coal mine Panian in Semirara Island, Antique early Friday.

Construction worker na naguhuan ng lupa sa Brgy Concepcion, Marikina, naiahon na; dinala na sa pagamutan | Joey Rebate, DZMM Correspondent

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has identified the types of students who could be permitted to enroll in college despite the implementation of the K to 12 program, which will add two years in basic education starting next year.

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects the Philippines to outpace several of its Southeast Asian neighbors in economic growth for this year and the next, according to a supplement to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) for 2015.

Anytime a company goes through a transition there will inevitably be bad days, but the end goal is worth the initial struggle.

THE ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) has maintained growth forecasts for the Philippines this year and next, expecting the country to remain among the fastest-growing markets in the region despite a marked first-quarter slowdown as investments and household consumption — buoyed by election-related spending — continue fueling economic expansion, the regional lender said in a new…

The Provincial Health Office in Aklan has recorded 126 new cases of HIV in the Western Visayas in the first five months of 2015, bringing the total number of cases to 890 in the region since 1984.

HONG KONG – A trafficking victim, who was beaten and forced to work without pay in Hong Kong, will be allowed to challenge in the courts the autonomous region’s failure to pass laws protecting victims of forced labour early next year.

Less than a decade ago, the world economy sank into the Great Recession: the deepest and most widespread downturn since the Great Depression of the 1920s and ’30s. Since the stock market crashed in 2008, recovery has been long and slow, marked by persistent bumps in the road along the way. Nonetheless, an economic recovery…

As of the first quarter of 2015, there are 25 certified aviatrixes operating planes across the Philippines, records from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines show.

There are cracks in the Philippine recruitment industry owing to the desire of some disgruntled agency owners to oust the head of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

PARIS – Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warned Monday.

Growing up in the 80’s, I was already in high school when Rock Hudson died of AIDS. Back then, it was still called AIDS because it was still at its infancy and a lot of misconceptions were believed to be true. It was only later on when I learned that a person does not become…

“More than anything, employees want a workplace that they enjoy coming back to every day.” The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question “How do you keep your best employees?” is by…

Regional leaders in digital marketing gathered at the Singapore Ad:Tech Summit MANILA, Philippines – We’re halfway through 2015 and terms like “Big Data,” “Reach,” and “SEO” are not foreign concepts to most brands and marketers anymore. We are fully in the Digital Era and everyone is already using data and social media to reach out…