MANILA, Philippines – The Hong Kong columnist who has been the target of Filipino rage since he called the country “a nation of servants” issued a public apology Tuesday evening, admitting that he crossed the line and was sorry.

SAN ESTEBAN, Ilocos Sur , Philippines  – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the Ilocos region is finally building up a case on the killing of an activist here four years ago.

ITOGON, Benguet , Philippines  – Another small-scale miner died when he ran out of his oxygen supply and suffocated in a tunnel in Barangay Tuding here on Monday morning.

KORONADAL CITY , Philippines  – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Central Mindanao has started its investigation into the killing of a militant leader and environmental activist here last March 9.

TOKYO — Japan began offering money Wednesday for unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry to go home, mostly to Brazil and Peru, to stave off what officials said posed a serious unemployment problem.

WASHINGTON (AFP): The World Bank on Tuesday forecast “unprecedented” declines in global economic output and trade volumes this year, warning that growth  would also slow sharply in the vulnerable developing world.

At least 20 beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program under Task Force Mapalad in Negros Occidental have sold their sugar farms, after fighting tooth and nail to gain ownership of the land. They said the program did not extend support services to them and failed to improve their living.

PRESIDENT Arroyo has ordered the Commission on Higher Education to draft a flexible, “socially sensitive” tuition payment plan for all state colleges and universities.

THE rental rates for outsourcing offices may fall by 10 to 15 percent this year because of the higher supply of office space coming into the market and the global recession, Ayala Land said in a briefing yesterday.

A sustainable technology for water purification, industrial wastewater recycling and reuse.

MANILA, Philippines – Pre-menopausal women face various health risks that can be best addressed by choosing the food items that would help them combat such diseases as osteoporosis and anemia.

MANILA, Philippines – More than 200,000 jobs will be created from April to June as construction for resorts, hotels and restaurants in the PAGCOR (Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.) City will be in full swing during the second quarter.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) expects an increase in remittances sent through formal channels to boost the country’s gross international reserves (GIR).

Rep. Casiño stresses need for a wider investigation of extrajudicial killings in the country

Leaders of the world’s largest economies have reached an agreement to tackle the global financial crisis with measures worth $1.1 trillion (£681bn).

Palace allows OFWs into Lebanon, Jordan   Despite the global crisis, more than 100,000 jobs in Qatar are available for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Labor department announced Wednesday after attending a meeting with Qatari labor officials last week.

THE Philippines’ biggest real-estate developer announced Wednesday that cancellations increased last year amid the global financial crunch.

When both partners are of one mind to end a relationship, the pain will be substantially less. Though both will mourn the loss of time, effort, emotional investment and money that were put into the failed love, at least both now recognize that the relationship has outlived its usefulness and the time has come to…

THE Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional a provision in the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act, which set limits on the salary claim of illegally dismissed workers.

The Philippines is one of the 22 high-burdened countries with tuberculosis based on the World Health Organization Watch List, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said.

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Fourteenth Congress Second Regular Session  Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand eight. Republic Act No. 9547             April 1, 2009 AN ACT STRENGTHENING AND EXPANDING THE COVERAGE OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAM…

MANILA, Philippines — The three biggest oil companies owe the government between P8 to P 9 billion in contributions to the defunct Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF), the chairman of the House committee on ways and means said Wednesday.

With complaints from members MANILA, Philippines–The House of Representatives is set to investigate complaints about difficulties in transacting with the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), according to militant lawmakers.

France threatens to walk out of G20 meeting LONDON — Top international organizations issued bleak forecasts for the world economy on Tuesday as France threatened to walk out of a high-stakes summit of the G20 group of the world’s top 20 economies, which is being overshadowed by US-Europe divisions.

MANILA, Philippines — Economic recovery should be on top of the county’s list of concerns notwithstanding the impending 2010 elections, charter change talks and various discussions of politicized issues, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) president Edgardo Lacson pointed out.

MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed an executive order (EO) for the drafting of “flexible, socially sensitive” tuition fee payment plans in state colleges and universities.

Press Secretary Cerge Remonde announced that the National Economic and Development Authority Board , headed by President Gloria Arroyo, has approved the Asean-Korea Free Trade Agreement. The agreement provides tariff elimination on 90 percent of lines in the normal track by January 1, 2009, Remonde said. An executive order implementing the tariff reduction schedule from…

MANILA, Philippines—As jobs become scarce, more than 11,000 nurses have scrambled to gain a slot in the government’s emergency employment program for 5,000 nurses in the countryside, officials said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines–The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry gleams with hope during times of crisis, according to Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI).

A six-hour drive north of Alice Springs, this is the proposed site of a radioactive waste dump – a project that has not only sparked the most rancorous of environmental debates, but divided the local Aboriginal community, the traditional owners of the land.