by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 7 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The number of unemployed Filipinos last March declined to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic last year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
by Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star), 7 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Mental health and psychosocial counseling services are now being offered by the government online to persons and families affected by the coronavirus disease pandemic.
By Ruben Torres, 7 May 2021, Manila Times THE second Sunday of May is Mother’s Day. On this day we send greetings and flowers to our mothers. It is also a day on which we reflect on the existential importance of mothers to the human species, to the economy and to the family. From the…
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By: John Eric Mendoza, 6 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The country’s latest unemployment rate of 7.1 percent, the lowest since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country, indicates that the economy is “gradually getting back on track,” the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Thursday.
by Merlina Hernando-Malipot, Manila Bulletin, 6 May 2021 With the conduct of face-to-face classes still prohibited amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in the country, teachers – at all levels – are holding classes through alternative delivery modalities.
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BAKIT MAHAL ANG GAMOT (at bakuna) SA PILIPINAS? 1. Monopoly by transnational companies2. Prolonged patents3. Lack of genuine drug industry4. Government deregulation pic.twitter.com/6unauFNBP8 — Leonard Javier #StopTheKillings ✊ #HealthForAll ⌬ (@STPbasileo) May 6, 2021
by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 6 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Inflation steadied at 4.5 percent in April despite the continued hike in meat prices as this was offset by lower costs in other food items, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
by Gilbert Bayoran, Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star), 6 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Another policeman has succumbed to COVID-19. Philippine National Police (PNP) deputy chief for administration Lt. Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said a 31-year-old police corporal assigned in Central Luzon died while being treated in a hospital on Monday.
by Neil Jayson Servallos (The Philippine Star), 6 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has distributed around P46.1 million in subsidy to over 11,000 drivers.
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by Patricia B. Mirasol, BusinessWorld, 5 May 2021 Twenty Filipino companies made it to the 2021 Financial Times ranking of the top 500 high-growth companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
By Leslie Gatpolintan, 5 May 2021 MANILA – The country’s inflation rate remained at 4.5 percent in April as prices of some food items were lower, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Wednesday.
by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Population (PopCom) has reported an increase in maternal deaths in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 Old soldiers never die; they’re just forgotten. Veterans’ pensions were in fact delayed for decades. Other annual budgetary priorities kept overtaking their direly needed retirement benefits. Only in 2019 were those updated, though still with part of 2018 unpaid. And exigencies are again looming to block…
by Elijah Felice Rosales (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines continues to attract potential investors, mostly in business process outsourcing (BPO), as inquiries about office spaces have spiked despite the pandemic.
By DJ Yap, INQ, 5 May 2021 Underage girls from Mindanao, some as young as 14, were being sent to Syria using tampered passports under a scheme hatched by unscrupulous recruiters and immigration officers, a Senate committee learned on Tuesday, as it peeled a new layer in the insidious trafficking of young women to the…
by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Negotiations for the takeover of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines’ shipyard in Subic may be finalized within two months, Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Steven Robinson said in an online briefing.
by Gerardo P. Sicat (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 May 1 or Labor Day leads us to thoughts about the welfare of our country’s working class. It is a fair question to ask how our working class has benefited from seven decades of political independence.
by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Imposing a carbon tax in the Philippines will significantly help the country and the region address further risks of climate change and will aid in the long-term recovery from the pandemic.
By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 5 May 2021 The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) has asked President Duterte to lift the ban on new economic zones in Metro Manila that had discouraged call center companies from either setting up shop or expanding in the capital.
By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 5 May 2021 A group of local manufacturers, which repurposed their facilities at the request of the government could now make tens of millions of personal protective equipment (PPE) in a year, but the Duterte administration had bought only a portion of that supply, which forced the group to lay…
by Franco Luna (Philstar.com), 5 May 5, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Transport workers on Thursday slammed the delay in the release of funds under the transportation department’s service contracting program, saying “not even one percent” of the budget set aside for it has been spent.
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