Monthly Archives: November 2015

BATANGAS, Philippines – A 35-year-old woman died and three others were injured when a fire gutted a restaurant and a bakery in Batangas City Tuesday night.

MANILA, Philippines – Climate activists have assailed the Aquino administration for what it described as “snail-paced” rehabilitation of areas ravaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda two years ago.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite the country’s recent economic gains, Sen. Sonny Angara lamented the poor ranking of the Philippines in a recent financial literacy index, which he said may hamper the government’s efforts to pursue inclusive growth.

The Executive Board and the General Council of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) have unanimously elected Ruben Torres as president, a position that recently became vacant due to the untimely demise of former senator Ernesto Herrera. Torres is concurrently the president of the BPO Workers Association of the Philippines (BWAP-TUCP), an industry-wide…

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine exports shrank 24.7 percent in September, the steepest drop in four years.

MANILA – The House of Representatives Appropriations Committee approved in just one hearing the proposed Salary Standardization Law (SSL) of 2015 amid a scuffle involving government employees and a tense exchange between Budget Secretary Butch Abad and Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio.

According to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Public school teachers and nurses will be paid twice as much compared to their private counterparts under the proposed Salary Standardization Law of 2015 (SSL 2015). “Our study revealed that if we compare the median of the market to the median of SSL 3 rates, public…

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) Z Benefit Packages have been expanded to include coverage for colon and rectal cancer.

MANILA, Philippines – A 78-year-old barangay councilman was charged with sexual harassment and acts of lasciviousness by a newly hired employee at a hardware store he owns in Sampaloc, Manila Saturday night.

Where many of his friends and relatives have opted to move to North America to find a good job, the 38-year-old’s preference has always been to remain at home with his wife and four children.

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the Philippines have the potential to grow five times its present size should corruption and red tape be eliminated, a private sector-led group pushing for integrity standards said.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) Western Visayas has recently declared 21 child labor-free barangays in six local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental.

THE sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal now being debated would cover everything, from Vietnamese labor unions to copyright protections to trade in sockeye salmon. With the details having been released on Thursday, a furious dispute is expected in the US and some of the 11 other countries that negotiated it.

In recent years, citizens’ concerns about allegations of corruption in the public sector have become more visible and widespread. From São Paulo to Johannesburg, citizens have taken to the streets against graft. In countries like Chile, Guatemala, India, Iraq, Malaysia and Ukraine, they are sending a clear and loud message to their leaders: Address corruption!

MANILA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — In any major undertaking, especially if it involves countries with different economic structures and stages of development, there is bound to be different views and expectations. While the Philippine government is enthusiastic about the benefits that the country can get from the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by…

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – A million “food guardians” will be generated for 100 million Filipino rice consumers after the National Food Authority (NFA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) reported that wastage of rice had gone up to P10 billion yearly or around P27 million daily.

SINGAPORE—Like many maids in Singapore, Dewie, 27, came here for a bigger pay check to support her young children. She could endure the backbreaking hours, even the repeated scoldings, but what made her decide to leave was the closed-circuit television camera in the toilet.

FILIPINO employees, in flexible and highly digitized workplaces, are among the most avid users of productivity tools in Asia Pacific, according to Microsoft Corp.

27 October 2015 – While youth violence is not a simple problem with easy solutions, a new report launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores that prevention programmes can improve a broad range of health, education and social outcomes – and lead to potentially substantial economic savings.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger rose to 3.5 million in the third quarter of the year, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) found in its latest survey.

MANILA, Philippines – The manufacturing industry across Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, would suffer productivity losses in the next 30 years due to rising temperatures caused by climate change, a research showed.

3 November 2015 – Climate change poses severe and distinct threats to food security, and could subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080, a United Nations human rights expert warned today.

For the month of September alone, close to 700 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were recorded, increasing the number of cases for the year to almost 6,000, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

MANILA, Philippines – Microsoft has unveiled an Asia Pacific wide study that shows enterprises are lagging behind their employees’ expectations to be more productive, collaborative and innovative in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. The Study, conducted together with a global consultancy firm Organisation Solutions, also unveils the New World of Work Index comparing how workers perceive…

MANILA, Philippines – Road traffic deaths remain high, with around 1.5 million reported each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015.