Monthly Archives: August 2021

Four fishermen died of asphyxia while cleaning the fish storage compartment of their vessel near the waters off Barangay Talisayan, Zamboanga City, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Monday. The victims were identified as Joseph Oro, 45, boat captain; Marjon Oro, 37; Charlie Caspe, 29; and Billy Lamag, 27, all crew members of FV…

by Rainier Allan Ronda (The Philippine Star), 10 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) will start the enrollment period for school year 2021-2022 on Aug. 16, again with public school teachers expected to take the initiative in enlisting students to pursue remote learning.

by Patrick Galey (Agence France-Presse), 10 Aug 2021 PARIS, France — World leaders, green groups and influencers reacted on Monday to a “terrifying” UN climate science report with a mix of horror and hopefulness as the scale of the emergency became abundantly clear.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 9 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines posted the second fastest growth in motor vehicle production and sales in Southeast Asia in the first semester, registering double-digit increases from last year when demand for cars was affected by the strict lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

by Rudy Santos, Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star), 9 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Officers of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have prevented six Filipino women from traveling to the United Arab Emirates.

by Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star), 9 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — To improve the quality of basic education and learning outcomes of students, Sen. Sonny Angara is pushing a program that aims to produce the best teachers for the public school system in the country.

by Ben O. de Vera, 8 Aug 2021 The two-week lockdown that the government imposed to contain the contagious Delta strain will likely cost the economy P300 billion in output losses, the country’s chief economist said.

by Bianca Angelica D. Añago, BusinessWorld, 8 Aug 2021 THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) said it has distributed P13 billion to its regional offices, and is seeking P2 billion more to support a cash-for-work program, which budget officials said will be forthcoming once the original funds are spent.

by Fr. Shay Cullen, 8 Aug 2021 The recruitment and sale of humans is an age-old crime against the rights, freedom and dignity of everyone exploited and forced to work for little or no wages and controlled and trapped by their traffickers and slave masters.Young women and boys are especially targeted and offered fake jobs…

Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 11. UK🇬🇧19. Japan🇯🇵23. France🇫🇷25. USA🇺🇸32. Spain🇪🇸52. Italy🇮🇹57. Malaysia🇲🇾69. S. Africa🇿🇦78. China🇨🇳86. India🇮🇳92. Colombia🇨🇴94. Brazil🇧🇷102. Indonesia🇮🇩124. Mexico🇲🇽129. Russia🇷🇺149. Nigeria🇳🇬176. Venezuela🇻🇪@anticorruption pic.twitter.com/ArKWkD4Erg — Informal Economy (@EconomyInformal) August 7, 2021

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 8 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Economic Zone Authority is pushing for the development of more ecozones in CALABARZON (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) for priority industries including automotive, electronics, as well as information technology – business process management (IT-BPM).

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 8 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine economy will lose at least P150 billion per week as Metro Manila and other areas are placed under the strictest quarantine measure as the country grapples with the expected spread of the more transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant.

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 7 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The country’s balance of trade in goods recorded a wider deficit in June as the rebound in imports outpaced the uptick in exports during the month, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday.

by Edilberto C. de Jesus, 7 Aug 2021 Not in or by itself. But, given the tightly-centralized structure of the system, an Education Commission (EdCom) is arguably essential to crafting a strategyʍand required by international assessment test results that showed the Philippines with the lowest student competencies in Science, Math, and Reading. It was thus…

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 7 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Dutch financial giant ING Bank and ANZ Research expect the Philippines to make a slower bounceback from the pandemic-induced recession as stricter lockdown and quarantine measures were reimposed in the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces.

by Ben O. de Vera, 7 Aug 2021 The Philippines’ trade in goods with the rest of the world climbed 26.1 percent year-on-year to $89.25 billion in the first half of 2021, with six-month exports exceeding prepandemic shipments amid global economic recovery.

by Dindo Manhit, 6 Aug 2021 After five years of the Duterte presidency, the administration’s governance and performance certainly merit scrutiny.

by Segundo ECLAR romero, 6 Aug 2021 Did VP Leni just pull the rug from under 1Sambayan? Much of the Filipino nation that wants an end to the Duterte regime see in 1Sambayan the mechanism for uniting the opposition to wage this fight. But when VP Leni entered exploratory talks with Senators Ping Lacson and…

by Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), 6 Aug 2021 Lockdowns aim to contain the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. But they unintentionally unleash a worse killer, tuberculosis.

by Jose C. Sison (The Philippine Star), 6 Aug 2021 This is the case of a lawyer Atty. Manuel Castro (Manny) and his wife Tina involving domestic violence that led to the filing of administrative complaint for disbarment and criminal case for violence against women against Manny. The main question that arises here is whether…

by Peter Wallace, 5 Aug 2021 Some 14 months ago, the world knew only one way of working: Everybody went to the office from 9 to 5. But in the last 14 months, the world has been shaken out of this rigidity, and people have been working from home. A new acronym was born: WFH.

by Don Pangan, 5 Aug 2021 A surge of labor disputes and workplace grievances among food delivery riders is erupting amid their increased significance and profile during the pandemic. The latest is the protest of some 300 Foodpanda riders in Davao over decreased pay. In response to this, Foodpanda suspended 43 riders for 10 years…

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by Catherine Talavera (The Philippine Star), 5 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) has partnered with several private sector firms to launch two projects aimed at accelerating the modernization of agriculture through digital platforms for farmers and fisherfolks.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 5 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Two-thirds of consumers saw their income negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter, with the impact more pronounced for Gen X and millennials, according to a survey by information and insights company TransUnion.

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By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, 4 Aug 2021 THE PRESIDENTIAL palace on Wednesday ordered agencies in the Philippine capital and nearby cities to reduce their on-site workers to 20% during the two-week enhanced lockdown meant to contain a more contagious Delta coronavirus variant.

By Ben O. de Vera, 4 Aug 2021 The number of jobless Filipinos increased to 3.76 million in June, equivalent to 7.7 percent of the labor force, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported yesterday.

By Ben O. de Vera, 4 Aug 2021 Debt watcher Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday said the pandemic-inflicted “deep” economic scarring in the Philippines—one of the worst in Asia-Pacific—would exacerbate social inequality due to job losses and households reverting to poverty.