Monthly Archives: July 2017

JULY 14, 2017, MARY SHACKLETT Incidents of workplace abuse often fly under the radar. Managers need to learn how to spot such activity, respond immediately, and communicate with staff about the consequences of abusive behavior. The fallout from Uber’s alleged employee harassment and discrimination is still reverberating throughout the Silicon Valley, where tech companies with…

by Laura Tyson, Jun 13, 2017 Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are powering a new wave of automation, with machines matching or outperforming humans in a fast-growing range of tasks, including some that require complex cognitive capabilities and advanced degrees. This process has outpaced the expectations of experts; not surprisingly, its possible adverse effects…

By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jul 13, 2017 Economic managers will ask President Duterte to certify as urgent a bill that will slap tariff on all rice imports to enable the country to finally do away with the quota system and avoid sanctions from the World Trade Organization (WTO).

She makes me tense. He argues with me. She appreciates me. Husbands and wives rate each other, and their unions. By Ben Steverman, Jul 13, 2017 The best marriages are win-win propositions, in which both spouses end up happier and healthier than they’d be if they were single.

By Boy Abunda (The Philippine Star), Jul 12, 2017 When it was founded in 1997, Bantay Bata 163 was solely meant to rescue and rehabilitate abused children by providing shelter, therapy and quality home care for rescued children until they can be reunited with their families or referred to proper child-caring agencies. As the years…

by Terence Tse, Jun 12, 2017 The application of the computational analysis and learning techniques described in previous research, manifest themselves in the form of artificial intelligence (AI). AI represents the ambition to create machines that can think, learn and create solutions to problems with the same range to which the human mind can be…

By: Jigger J. Jerusalem , Inquirer Mindanao, Jul 12, 2017 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Authorities on Wednesday said they were investigating the extent of the operation of a group running a cybersex den following a raid in Gingoog City on Monday.

By: Eunice Barbara C. Novio, INQUIRER.net US Bureau , Jul 12, 2017 Bangkok—Despite the world’s efforts to curb the population growth due to dwindling resources and the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) continuous effort to protect the rights of the women, the Philippines remains at the bottom when it comes to full implementation of reproductive…

Canada has finally committed to move forward with an asbestos ban by 2018. BY EMILY WALSH, JUL 12 2017 In 2016, Canada finalized plans to fully ban the use and import of asbestos, putting into motion a rule to enact the ban by 2018. For decades, asbestos use has been known to cause devastating illnesses,…

The Conversation, 11 Jul 2017 There’s no shortage of dire warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence these days. Modern prophets, such as physicist Stephen Hawking and investor Elon Musk, foretell the imminent decline of humanity. With the advent of artificial general intelligence and self-designed intelligent programs, new and more intelligent AI will appear, rapidly…

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The West could learn a thing or two 20 years after the region plunged into turmoil. By Mohamed A. El-Erian, Jul 11, 2017 Twenty years ago, I was working at the International Monetary Fund in Washington that would scramble — like almost everyone else — to understand and respond to cascading financial disruptions that would…

Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-11 WASHINGTON, July 10 (Xinhua) — While industrial robots are predicted to replace millions of U.S. workers and suppress wage growth in the next decade, reforms in education and social safety net largely lag behind, said a renowned U.S. economist.

On World Population Day, experts call on lawmakers to work towards the enactment of bills tackling the issue of teenage pregnancy in the Philippines Jee Y. Geronimo, Rappler, Jul 11, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Imagine this: Every day, 5 girls aged 10 to 14 become pregnant or give birth in the Philippines.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because millennials actually want to be in the office. The Daily Dose, Jul 10, 2017 Working from home is still an eyebrow-raising subject in some workplaces. Still, nearly 4 million U.S. employees — about 3 percent of the U.S. workforce — worked remotely half the time in 2015. Times are changing,…

Kevin Loria, Business Insider, Jul 11, 2017 Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the record for the longest verified lifespan, died in 1997 at 122 years old. Few people, of course, ever become supercentenarians — 110 years old or older — and even fewer hit 115. So few people have exceeded that age, in…

By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jul 11, 2017 GT Capital group’s property arm Federal Land Inc. has teamed up with Japan’s Nomura Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. and Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. to invest in a P20-billion residential and retail complex in Bonifacio Global City.

by Tracy Chou, Quartz, Jul 10, 2017 In 2005, the late writer David Foster Wallace delivered a now-famous commencement address. It starts with the story of the fish in water, who spend their lives not even knowing what water is. They are naively unaware of the ocean that permits their existence, and the currents that…

by Alex Heath, Business Insider, Jul 10, 2017 Mark Zuckerberg has increasingly been a vocal advocate of universal basic income, the economic system in which all people are given a free paycheck from the government, no questions asked.

Associated Press, Jul 10, 2017 HELSINKI — Coal-fired power stations are responsible for the most pollution in Europe, with Britain among the top polluters, the European Union says.

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by Tracy Chou, Jul 10, 2017, Quartz In 2005, the late writer David Foster Wallace delivered a now-famous commencement address. It starts with the story of the fish in water, who spend their lives not even knowing what water is. They are naively unaware of the ocean that permits their existence, and the currents that…

By David Weldon, Jul 10 2017 While the use of automation and artificial intelligence technologies is increasing, they will become widely used in the coming years and have a profound impact on the workforce and job security. Many low skill jobs will be lost. Some new highly skilled jobs will be created. Most jobs will…

By Rex Remitio, CNN Philippines, Jul 9, 2017 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 7) — The future of tens of thousands of Grab and Uber drivers in the Philippines is in limbo as transport authorities have yet to determine if they will renew the accreditations of the two Transportation Network Companies (TNC).

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http://development.asia/explainer/5-innovative-ways-produce-job-worthy-graduates Introduction 1. Establish university-industry linkages. 2. Use technology to facilitate teaching and learning. 3. Engage employers in skills development. 4. Tap into new modes of delivery for education. 5. Facilitate school-to-work transition.

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By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star), Jul 8, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday reported that more than 43,000 people have been barred from leaving the country during the first year of the Duterte administration as part of the policy of offloading suspected undocumented overseas workers.

July 08, 2016 SINGAPORE — More than half of workers in five Southeast Asian countries are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation in the next two decades, an International Labor Organization (ILO) study found, with those in the garments industry particularly vulnerable.

Businessworld, Jul 07, 2017 WOMEN remain bound by traditional gender roles, limiting their participation in the work force, according to a study published by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).