Monthly Archives: September 2018

By Eimor P. Santos, CNN Philippines Staff, Sept 15, 2018 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 15) — Landslides triggered by Typhoon Ompong left two emergency responders dead in the Cordillera region, disaster officials said Saturday.

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By Ben Garcia, Kuwait Times Sponsors view domestic helpers as child-like and untrustworthy, despite the extensive responsibilities they shoulder in caring for the home and children.

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by Jennifer P. Rendon, Sep 17, 2018 AN AUSTRALIAN national and his Filipino live-in partner were arrested after authorities swooped down on an alleged cyberporn hub in Pavia, Iloilo, morning of Sept 15, 2018.

https://www.trendtopstoaies.com/2018/09/the-asia-pacific-region-lost-126.html, Sept 14, 2018 The Asia-Pacific region suffered two daily casualties of $126 million each day. The statistics were released in a report presented on September 13, at a conference in the framework of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN held in Hanoi.

by Louise Maureen Simeon with Evelyn Macairan(The Philippine Star), Sep 14, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is expected to import more rice next year as local production will not be enough to cover the demand for the country’s main staple, according to the latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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The ‘Trabaho’ tax bill, explained The Tax Reform for Attracting Better and Higher Quality Opportunities Bill — or the Trabaho bill, for short — is the second package of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law.

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By Kris Crismundo, Sept 13, 2018 MANILA — Call center applicants should learn to speak English with American, Australian, or British accents as business process outsourcing (BPO) clients have expressed preference for “near-native” English speakers.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018—- The Philippines is included in the United Nations’ (UN) list of “shameful” countries which it said had carried out reprisals or intimidation against people cooperating with it on human rights through killings, torture and arbitrary arrests.

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By TED CORDERO, GMA News, Sep 12, 2018 The Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce of the Philippines (JFC) on Wednesday urged the Duterte administration to retain the incentives of companies registered under the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA).

by Agence France-Presse, Sep 12, 2018 Automation will soon make millions of low-skilled jobs — from cashiers and machine operators to waiters and drivers — redundant across Southeast Asia, experts said Wednesday, warning the region to upskill fast or face huge employment problems.

By: Ben O. de Vera, Inquirer Business, Sept 12, 2018 To ease high consumer prices, President Rodrigo Duterte will be issuing an executive order (EO) to implement the measures approved by the economic team last week.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Daily Inquirer, Sep 12, 2018 More than a quarter of Japanese firms located in economic zones in Cebu plan to pull out their investments in the country if an opposed tax reform pushes through.

The good times are rolling in automation, but milestones like this may be bellwethers for some very human challenges ahead By Greg Nichols for Robotics | Sep 11, 2018 Collaborative robots, usually called cobots, are now the fastest growing segment of industrial automation and are expected to make up 34% of all industrial robot sales…

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But get ready to change your occupation. By Liam Tung | Sept 10, 2018 Consultant firm McKinsey reckons artificial intelligence (AI) will boost productivity way more than the steam engine was able to in the 1800s.

by Catherine Talavera (The Philippine Star), Sep 9, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia is urging the full implementation of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law for the country to reach its demographic dividend period by 2022 to 2025 and lower poverty incidence.

Viet Nam News/Asia News Network, Sep 09, 2018 HÀ NỘI – A world in which robots fully take work over from humans may seem scary for developing economies, but on-going automation is bringing substantial benefits to businesses and society. People worldwide are talking about the Fourth Industrial Revolution – or Industry 4.0 – and what…

By JOSEPH TRISTAN ROXAS, GMA News, Sep 9, 2018 The Duterte administration used only P299.75 million out of the P74.55 billion Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans it received in 2017 from foreign lenders, the Commission on Audit said.

By Leo Jaymar G. Uy, Businesssworld, Sep 9, 2018 FEDERALISM is a “strong predictor” of higher income inequality in developing economies and higher poverty on average for all countries, a study by the University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE) said.