Today, knowledge workers use devices and platforms we wouldn’t have dreamed of 15 years ago, in workspaces we probably didn’t see coming, either (goodbye, private offices; hello, telecommuting). But while work has changed, the training we get about how to manage our time looks pretty much the same as it always has. Traditional time management…

From the Department of Foreign Affairs The Philippines notes with satisfaction the European Union’s (EU) lifting of the warning or “yellow card” in recognition of the significant progress made by the country in addressing Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF). Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert F. del Rosario welcomed the EU’s decision as it will…

MANILA, Philippines–The government has earmarked P30.8 billion for the hiring of personnel to fill almost 87,000 vacant positions this year, according to the Department of Budget and Management. In a statement on Monday, the DBM said the funding shall come from the miscellaneous personnel benefits fund in the 2015 national budget. Citing the staffing summary…

Stereotypically speaking, women talk a lot. Statistically speaking, men talk more – at least within professional settings. Men tend to speak more frequently, loudly and dominantly than their female colleagues, which has effectively silenced many women in the workplace. The hazards of speaking while female Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton business professor Adam Grant in…

The Asian Development Bank has cut its economic growth forecast for developing Asia, citing weakness in region’s two largest economies China and India and jitters over plans to scale back United States stimulus that destabilised financial markets. The Manila-based lender says it expects the region’s emerging economies to grow by six per cent this year,…

​After years of rigorous planning and consultations with education stakeholders, the Department of Education (DepEd) has identified and mapped more than 5,800 public schools set to offer Senior High School (SHS) in 2016 nationwide as part of its continued preparations for the full implementation of the K to 12 program. Over the last several years,…

Sumadsad sa pinakamababa ang satisfaction rating ng administrasyon ni Pangulong Noynoy Aquino. Sa survey ng Social Weather Stations (SWS) na isinagawa noong Marso 20 hanggang 23 sa 1,200 respondents, pumalo lang sa 48% ang kuntento sa trabaho ng gobyerno, 29% ang hindi kuntento, at 23% ang walang desisyon. Lumalabas dito na +19 ang net score…

Your words matter and have a huge impact on your employees. Avoid these 7 phrases and watch your employee productivity and engagement soar. Sometimes leaders make statements that have an effect entirely opposite of what was intended. These phrases might be well intended, but the interpretation can be very damaging. Instead of leading to efficiency…

From the Department of Budget and Management The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reported that a total of P30.8 billion is allotted to fund 86,994 unfilled positions in government, contrary to the 190,000 positions reported in media recently. The latter figure comprises the Staffing Summary of the 2015 National Expenditure Program (NEP), which shows…

THE PHILIPPINES remained the third fastest growing market for vehicles in the region in terms of sales, fueled largely by the steady rise in domestic demand and the sustained robust growth of the local economy. Data from the Asean Automotive Federation showed that local automotive vehicle sales bucked the regional decline of 5.6 percent, as…

An activist lights a group of candles during World AIDS Day in Manila. Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images Though you wouldn’t know it from the media, the Philippines is in the midst of an alarming public health crisis. It is at a critical juncture with its growing numbers of HIV/AIDS cases. World Health Organization studies indicate that,…

MANILA, Philippines — There are at least five international issues the Philippines considers the greatest threats to the Asia-Pacific region it belongs to. In a recent interview with The Diplomat, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Cuisia Jr. said that face the rapidly rising region faces the problems of China’s assertiveness in the South…

Thoughts on its future Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. By Ayaan Hirsi Ali. HarperCollins; 272 pages; $27.99 and £18.99. NOT many people have lived deep inside a ruthlessly patriarchal, theocratic world and also won acclaim in the great bastions of Western, liberal thought. Even fewer can describe the contrast with insight, and that…

TARLAC CITY — President Benigno Aquino III on Friday pledged government support for teachers and employees who will lose their jobs due to the implementation of the K to 12 program. In a speech before students and teachers of the Tarlac National High School, Aquino said the government is already studying how it can provide…

For the past decades, in many countries of the world, the State has slowly retreated amidst the belief that by giving more space to market forces there would be greater economic growth and thus greater economic opportunities. This belief was manifest in the drive to liberalize goods and financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s…

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is ready to defend its revised college general education curriculum, which is the current subject of a petition for certiorari and prohibition before the Supreme Court (SC). “We will await the request of the Supreme Court to respond to the petition and will prepare an appropriate…

IN our last conversation, we focused on the first two education priorities of Asean 2015. What we suggested were a mix of Asean-related activities in and outside formal classes, extending our reach to our various communities through civic engagement. Also as academics, that we enhance our scholarship on the Filipino through literature written by Filipinologists.…

SOME of the cargo coming from and/or leaving the port of Manila should be diverted to two other facilities located in the North and South of the Philippine capital, a state-run think tank said in a policy note. The Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) made this recommendation in a policy note as part of…

Whatever you may have heard to the contrary, Chip Wilson is not an idiot. The founder and former CEO and Chairman of Lululemon Atheltica is, in point of fact, a highly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, innovator, and self-made billionaire. Idiots are very rarely any of those things. But a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview with him and…

MANILA, Philippines – Many among those suffering from sexually transmitted diseases come from broken families, an official from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said yesterday. In an interview over Radio Veritas, CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Health Care (ECHC) executive secretary Fr. Dan Vicente Cancino said the “less than ideal” setup in families may…

MANILA, Philippines — A Filipina won a Canadian $55,000 (almost P2 million) award from the human rights tribunal of British Columbia, which found she had been held as a “virtual slave” and subjected to sexual assault and other abuses by members of the Hong Kong family that had hired her as a nanny.

Alarmed with the rising number of cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which could lead to the deadly Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said that many people living with HIV/AIDS hail from “dysfunctional families.” In a report published on CBCP News on Wednesday, CBCP’s Episcopal…

Poor employment opportunities have driven approximately 10 millions Filipinos overseas to find decent jobs. In foreign lands they develop a broader worldview and gain experience that can prove useful when they return to their own land. This, however, doesn’t happen as often as it should. Many overseas Filipino workers often return home only for annual…

No matter how this administration tries to spin it, there’s no denying that the country’s economic growth is driven by the precious dollar remittances sent in by the millions of overseas Filipino workers deployed all over the world. Data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas show that OFW remittances increased 5.8 percent to $24.3 billion…

THE COUNTRY could finally penetrate the upper rungs of key global competitiveness lists this year, starting with the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business report, following further simplification of procedures especially for entrepreneurs, public and private sector officials yesterday said in a briefing in Makati City. A memorandum of understanding was signed by representatives of…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees a below-target growth for the Philippines next year, but raised its expectations for 2015. In its recently published World Economic Outlook (WEO) for April, the IMF said its 2016 growth projection for the Philippines is at 6.3 percent. This is lower than its earlier forecast of 6.4 percent, as…

MANILA, Philippines – The property market remains strong across all sectors as top developers continue to expand due to the sustained growth of the Philippines as well as the impending Asean economic integration. According to Pinnacle Real Estate Consulting Services Inc., the office space sector is robust due to demand from business process outsourcing (BPOs),…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines could lose as much as $500 million worth of export revenues if local exporters and manufacturers fail to comply with the social audit requirements of importers. In a statement, the Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. cited the Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines (FOBAP) as saying the country could lose $500…

MANILA, Philippines – Congressmen yesterday urged the government to fill nearly 190,000 vacant positions in the entire bureaucracy. Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano lll said filling these jobs would reduce the number of jobless college graduates in the country. He said as far as he knew, the House of Representatives and the Senate had included funds…

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 April) – The Department of Health (DOH) has raised a red flag for Davao City for being one of the six cities in the country to have high HIV prevalence rates. According to news reports, in a workshop last Thursday in Tarlac, Dr. Jose Gerard Belimac, program manager of the department’s National…