Monthly Archives: December 2016

Even white-collar workers can’t postpone retirement forever. See how your occupation stacks up. by Ben Steverman, December 9, 2016 One way to prepare for retirement is to save. Another way: Don’t retire. It’s surprisingly common to put very little aside and hope you never need to hang up your cleats for good. Among investors under…

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), December 8, 2016 The Philippines targets to reach the $100-billion milestone next year under the original Philippine Export Development Plan (PEDP) 2015-2017, but successive setbacks in the country’s export growth behind sluggish global trade have prompted government and export group officials to scale down and push back targets. AP/Koji…

Rappler takes a look back at some of President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial statements, and how his Cabinet officials tried to make sense of them by Katerina Francisco, December 08, 2016, Rappler.com MANILA, Philippines – In his 6 months so far in office, President Rodrigo Duterte has dominated the attention of national and international media alike.

By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema, December 8, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-philippines-idUSKBN13X2Q6 When Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, the man dubbed “Trump of the East”, told U.S. businesses to pack their bags if they didn’t like his anti-American rhetoric, the huge and growing outsourcing industry got a little nervous.

by Javier Blas and Angelina Rascouet, December 8, 2016 Will Opec Non-Members Agree to Cuts? OPEC is likely to bring the oil market into balance by the middle of next year, but its production cut looks set to fall short of its stated goal of draining the stockpiles that are depressing prices. The oil market…

By The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, December 7, 2016 Francisco ‘Isko Moreno’ M. Domagoso may have been unsuccessful in his quest to have a Senate seat in last May’s elections, but Christmas still came quite early for the former Manila vice mayor.

By Tarra Quismundo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 7, 2016 Senators on Wednesday expressed surprise and dismay at how more than a thousand Chinese nationals were able to work illegally at the Clark Freeport Zone under the radar of government agencies, noting their lapses and the possible exploitation of conflicting policies on foreign employment in Philippine-based…

http://www.ozy.com/acumen/the-us-is-beating-china-on-the-factory-floor-this-is-why/71321?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10182016&variable=52af57bdb25c500ad0fe628fd8cf4052 When you think of manufacturing megapowers, one country immediately springs to mind: China. After all, that nation has maintained the lead in the manufacturing horse race since 2010. But that’s about to change — and in as little as four years. Another horse is making a play for first place:

http://www.ozy.com/presidential-daily-brief/pdb-72512/market-woes-72522 Every party’s got to end. The WTO says this year global trade will grow at its slowest pace since 2007 as anti-trade movements like populist nationalism reverse a trend that stock markets and corporate profits have come to depend on. Free trade policies with new economies have rocketed economic growth around the world, but…

By: Allan Macatuno – Correspondent, INQPhilippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 07, 2016 SUBIC, Zambales – A worker was killed on Wednesday when his head was accidentally crushed by a barrier inside the Hanjin shipyard here, a worker’s group said.

Welcome to capitalism 2.0. At Amazon Go, a pilot store opening next year, customers check in with their phones, grab their items, and get billed to their Amazon accounts without standing in line or checking out. With Amazon reportedly planning thousands of grocery stores in the future, some speculate that the zero-human-interaction model could expand…

http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-robots-are-coming-for-the-farms/70693?utm_source=ozyge&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=12062016&variable=52af57bdb25c500ad0fe628fd8cf4052 Just minutes outside the city limits of Kyoto, Japan, the farmland begins. It’s lush, dotted with healthy paddy fields, halcyon against a mountain vista. Continue as far as Kameoka and you reach the place where the farmlands may end. Not because the horizon halts, but because a certain small factory, situated within these nearly…

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, December 7, 2016 PCIJ. Campaign Contributions By Region, Dec16IN 2010, PCIJ reported that only 308 donors contributed in the presidential race that Benigno Aquino III won. In the last presidential elections, where Rodrigo R. Duterte emerged as victor, that number has shot up to 830.

By Allan Macatuno, Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 7, 2016 SUBIC, Zambales – A worker was killed on Wednesday when his head was accidentally crushed by a barrier inside the Hanjin shipyard here, a worker’s group said.

Associated Press, December 6, 2016 MANILA, Philippines — A United Nations agency that promotes children’s rights says its survey shows a high prevalence of violence against Filipino children, with eight out of 10 suffering some form of physical or psychological abuse, with the highest number of incidents found among lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender youth.

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Dec. 5, 2015 – GBV PROGRAMS NEEDED – Four of ten workers in the Philippines had been victims of gender-based violence (GBV),or know of someone else in the workplace who had been similarly victimized. GBV’s negative effects on enterprise and workers productivity and well-being are clear, too. However, government or private sector programs to address…

AS HIV CASES HIT HIGHEST MONTHLY TOTAL SINCE JUNE 1984 BY MICAH YVANA M. VARDELEON, DECEMBER 6, 2016, Manila Times Department of Health (DOH) together with Department of Education (DepEd), non-governmental organizations, and private institutions used the occasion of World AIDS Day last Thursday to launch a multi-faceted effort to address the increase of HIV…

By Karol Ilagan, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, December 6, 2016 IN AN increasingly gloomy world, it may be wise to choose the positive when presented with a myriad of possibilities. So when politicians plunk down considerable amounts of their own fortunes just to run for public office, perhaps it is really because they believe…

Starting 2017, the government will set aside P1 billion for lending to micro and small enterprises By Chrisee Dela Paz, Dec 5, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will set aside P1 billion starting next year to implement an alternative lending scheme with an estimated 2% interest rate for micro…

by David Katzmaier, December 5, 2016 7:21 AM PST @dkatzmaier It may look like shoplifting, but it’s actually Amazon’s latest real-world shopping experiment. “Four years ago we started to wonder: what would shopping be like if you could just walk into a store, grab what you wanted, and just go.” That’s how a new video…

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), December 5, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – More than 300 adolescents and overseas Filipino workers were infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in just four months, the Department of Health (DOH) reported yesterday.

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By Prinz Magtulis (The Philippine Star), December 4, 2016 “The Philippines imposes the lowest minimum rate of two percent on taxable motor vehicles compared with five or 10 percent in minimum tax rate in other member countries,” the state-led National Tax Research Center (NTRC) said.

By Philippine News Agency, December 4, 2016 A Malaysian conglomerate that bankrolled the P1.5-billion government center/information technology (IT) hub in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija is bullish over the prospects of a project amid fears it might fail due to its remote location and other constraints.

Dec. 03, 2016 ZEA IO MING C. CAPISTRANO DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Two years after the last adjustment in the minimum wage in the region, workers will get a P23 to P29 minimum wage increase depending on the sector and industry effective December 16.

ABS-CBN News, Dec 03 2016 06:06 AM, http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/12/02/16/watch-the-philippines-and-human-trafficking As a developing country, the Philippines is vulnerable to human trafficking. Problems connected with poverty force most Filipinos to seek jobs outside the country, forming a culture of migration that contributes to human trafficking.

By Clare Dodd, 26 May 2015, http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Noble,_My_Love English books and pencils: which or that Which word should I use? Is it which or that? Both of these words are pronouns, and both are used to identify a person, place, thing or thought.

Dec. 1, 2016 – GENDER-BASED  VIOLENCE (GBV) messes with workers in many ways. An ITUC AP/Philippine affiliates survey in 2015 found that one-in-every-five workers had been victims of GBV (emotional/psychological, physical, sexual, harassment).  In addition, one of every five workers had known someone else in the workplace who had been victimized.  GBV caused workers being…

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