Monthly Archives: April 2017

BY KEVIN MANEY, 9/4/16 Three years ago, Jeff Bezos announced that drones are eventually going to deliver Amazon orders. In the past year, he brought out Amazon’s Alexa artificial intelligence service, which understands speech well enough that you can say, “Alexa, I really need a waffle cone maker,” and she’ll put one in your Amazon…

BY ALDEN WICKER, Jan 9, 2016 No one wants your cheap, old clothes—not even the neediest people on Earth.

BY WINSTON ROSS, May 21, 2016 Melissa Agnello earned her Ph.D in microbiology last year from the University of California at Los Angeles, an impressive achievement that unlocked her ability to wave goodbye to a decade of student poverty and… be a little less poor. She’s doing post-doctoral research now at the school, studying the…

ZDNet sits down with open source columnist Bob Reselman to discuss a question from our not-too-distant future: what happens to jobs when everything is automated? By David Gewirtz for ZDNet Government | April 13, 2017 One of the reasons I like to interview experts and students of technological change is to look at the differing…

by TOM GREENWELL, APRIL 13, 2017 More than 100,000 people die from asbestos-related disease each year, but the global asbestos industry continues to thrive. An African diplomatic initiative could be the first step in stopping it

by N.V. (Tiger) Tyagarajan, Apr 12, 2017 The process of learning, unlearning, trashing and reinventing is never-ending. Take the retail industry, for instance. The companies that are thriving are those that are constantly changing the nature of their businesses, like Amazon, which has grown from an e-commerce platform to a leader in all aspects of…

by Rutger Bregman, Apr 12, 2017 A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid.

by Erin Brodwin, Apr 12, 2017 So much for not being able to teach an old dog new tricks. Research has shown that some older people stay sharp into old age and retain the ability to recall personal experiences with just as much accuracy as their middle-aged peers. The brains of these so-called “super-agers” look…

by James Brooks, Associated Press, Apr 12, 2017 The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee’s hand. Another “cyborg” is created.

BY KENNETH CHENG, kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg, Apr 11, 2017 SINGAPORE — Employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can now enjoy the same suite of welfare benefits available to union members — except for workplace protection — after the labour movement rolled out a new scheme yesterday to raise the well-being of SME workers.

FIRST PERSON By Alex Magno (The Philippine Star), Apr 11, 2017 In their last meeting earlier this month, the negotiating panels of the Philippine government and the CPP-NPA agreed to an “interim” bilateral ceasefire agreement – whatever that may mean.

by Liz Ryan, Apr 11, 2017 For 50 or 60 years job-seekers have been taught to write their resumes in the most opaque and unhelpful way imaginable. Job-seekers have been taught to use terse, governmental language in their resumes, so that almost every job-seeker sounds identical to every other job-seeker!

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 11, 2017 Economic issues such as higher pay, inflation and job creation were the Filipinos’ most urgent national concerns in March, results of a Pulse Asia survey showed.

By Michael Birshan, Thomas Meakin, and Kurt Strovink, Apr 2017 We assessed the early moves of CEOs with outstanding track records; some valuable lessons for leadership transitions emerged. New CEOs face enormous challenges as they start assembling a management team and setting a strategic direction in today’s volatile environment. To provide some guidance for transitioning…

By: Tetch Torres-Tupas, INQINQUIRER.net, Apr 11, 2017 The Philippines and the US government on Tuesday signed an agreement to enhance the campaign against child trafficking and abuse in the country.

By: Ed Margareth Barahan, INQUIRER.net, Apr 11, 2017 Workers seeking overseas employment should be wary of fake job offers circulating online. In statement issued on Tuesday, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said: “Filipinos who are planning to work abroad should always be more careful of the too-good-to-be-true job offers being posted online. Avoid applying with…

By AYA BATRAWY, ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, Apr 11, 2017 South Asian migrants working in the multi-billion dollar construction industry in Arab Gulf countries are shouldering the costs of their own recruitment fees while companies and their clients are reaping the benefits from inexpensive labor, according to a study released Tuesday.

by Ninoy Sison, 06 April 2012 Through the years the Chinese secret service has constantly kept a keen eye on the Philippines, being strategically located in the South China Sea, long considered by China as a Chinese. Control early Philippine operations was handled directly from Yan’an, Mao Zedong’s stronghold and revolutionary base in mountainous Shanxi…

UNTV News, Apr 10, 2017 MANILA, Philippines — About 2,000 human trafficking victims nationwide had been assisted by the government in 2014, based on a report from the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) .

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Apr 10, 2017 Coa must now do a real audit I APPLAUD President Duterte’s recent tirade against his predecessor Benigno S. Aquino 3rd and the latter’s budget secretary, Florencio Abad, over their Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which was really an unprecedented, mammoth hijacking of government funds.

by Andre Goy, Apr 10, 2017 With so many novel therapies being developed, there has never been a more exciting time to be practicing medicine, says Dr Andre Goy, Chairman and Director, Chief of Lymphoma, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center. However, rising costs combined with an ageing population and an increase in…

How one field service management provider is benefiting from the technology. By Bob Violino, Apr 10, 2017 Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a huge impact on businesses in a variety of industries, including high tech. ServiceMax, a company that provides cloud-based field service software to help organizations manage contracts, scheduling, and parts, is a case…

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By Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star), Apr 9, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has limited the daily driving hours of public utility bus drivers to six hours to avoid accidents.

by Belinda Luscombe, Oct 28, 2014 As it has become clear over the last few years that sex trafficking takes place on every continent (O.K., maybe not Antarctica), approaches to defining it and ending it have changed. While there are ghastly situations in which young girls’ virginity is sold off by their debt-stricken parents in…

goo.gl/ZhM3LTcontent_copy Unhappiness is toxic. Throughout the years, I’ve learned there are certain traits and habits chronically unhappy people seem to have mastered. But before diving in with you, let me preface this and say: we all have bad days, even weeks when we fall down in all seven areas.

By Thomas Barta and Patrick Barwise, April 2017 Strong team leadership isn’t enough. New research shows the importance—for business impact and career success—of also mobilizing your boss and colleagues. Most of the leadership advice aimed at senior functional managers is how to build, align, energize, and guide a world-class team. This is a challenging task…

INQUIRER.net, April 08, 2017 For eating her employer’s food, a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong has been fined an amount eight times the cost of what she had eaten.

OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states agreed to work together to promote free trade at a meeting of their economic ministers in the western Japan city of Osaka on Saturday.

At a seminar organized by the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, 8 new labor attachés present their credentials to the OFW community Don Kevin Hapal, Apr 08, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Some of them may seem young but regardless of age, they maintained that they are all capable of taking on the challenge of looking…