Over 300 million liters of refined and highly inflammable fuel and liguefied gas are stored in the Pandacan depot that has been operating since 1921 without a buffer, as required under international safety rules, to insulate residents nearby from danger.

Failure to tap other source of water may result in acute water shortage in Metro Manila and nearby provinces by 2015, the representatives of the Manila Water Co. Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc. told Congress on Monday.

A sharp contraction in Philippine exports caused by the global financial crisis could dampen economic growth this year, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (Unescap).

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine economy will grow by no more than 3.0 percent this year as it faces the “triple threats” of renewed fuel and food price spikes and the worsening effects of the global financial crisis, according to a United Nations report.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines and Spain have signed three agreements that would further boost cooperation between the two countries.

SAN JUAN, Batangas—The government will spend P100 million to shoulder half the minimum wage of thousands of workers who would otherwise be laid off by the electronics industry as a stopgap measure to prevent further job losses, President Arroyo said yesterday.

CPJ report, threats to broadcaster spur action MANILA, Philippines—Heavily criticized over a number of unresolved political killings since she came to power, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday gave an explicit order to the Philippine National Police: Stop the killing of journalists.

MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has announced an incentive for workers who lost their jobs in the electronics industry.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine economy’s ability to avoid the contagion of the global economic crisis has been eroded by its dependence on exports, but income remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may mitigate this, according to a United Nations report.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines was warned against establishing a shipbreaking industry since its operations involve the disposal of toxic substances harmful to both humans and the environment.

ROSARIO, CAVITE – While dozens of workers are losing jobs at the Cavite Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), hundreds are going to be hired soon as more investors are coming in, according to CEZA authorities.

Most export companies inside the Mactan Export Zone (Mez) are not doing as badly as projected in the global economic crisis.

MANILA, Philippines—Whether they’re using Havaianas or Havanas, please don’t punish drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs) for wearing tsinelas (slippers), transport group leaders urged government Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines—The number of Filipino journalists killed rose to six in 2008, making the year one of the worst since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo began her term in 2001, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) said in its Philippine Press Freedom Report 2008, released Wednesday.

Recent Meeting of World Health Organization Research Group Again Reported that All Commercial Asbestos Fibers Cause Deadly Disease and Cited Important New Findings for Women

MANILA, Philippines (Reuters) — Exports may recover in the second half of the year as global demand picks up, which could limit job losses to half the 200,000 expected earlier, a senior government official said on Thursday.

Brussels,The 7th round of Association Agreement (AA) negotiations between Central America and the European Union will take place at Tegucigalpa between 30 March and 3 April.  The international trade union movement demands that the Agreement include a social and labour chapter embodying full observance of human and trade union rights, including the eight Core Conventions…

Geneva (Kanaga Raja) — There has been an increase in tariffs, new non-tariff measures, and more resort to trade defence measures such as anti-dumping actions by WTO Members since the start of this year, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said on Thursday.

Brussels- The 7th round of Association Agreement (AA) negotiations between Central America and the European Union will take place at Tegucigalpa between 30 March and 3 April.  The international trade union movement demands that the Agreement include a social and labour chapter embodying full observance of human and trade union rights, including the eight Core…

MANILA (Reuters) – Like millions of Filipinos, Alma Ang left her homeland to work abroad for a salary far higher than she could have ever earned at home.

MANILA, Philippines – A recent survey conducted by Pulse Asia showed that four in 10 Filipino adults or 42 percent oppose Charter change (Cha-cha).

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MANILA, Philippines – Nueva Ecija Rep. Edno Joson yesterday filed a bill seeking to provide compensation of up to six months to workers rendered jobless by the financial crisis or other causes.

The country’s economic managers are pinning their hopes on the Subic Bay Freeport zones and Clark Economic zones to keep Central Luzon’s economy humming amid a global economic slowdown.

The Pamilyang Overseas Filipino Workers-Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Network Foundation Inc. (POFW-SMENFI) announced yesterday that the 4th Pamilyang OFW-SME Summer Expo – which is slated this Friday (March 27) and Saturday (March 28) at the Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) – will feature a local and overseas jobs fair and free seminars on jobs, livelihood,…

Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Women’s party-list Rep. Liza Maza and a ranking member of the influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) yesterday condemned the worsening extra-judicial killing in Souther tagalong and Davao lambasting the Arroyo administration for practically doing nothing to stop the killing spree.

In a bid to downplay the wave of job losses due to the global economic crisis, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque yesterday said both the global deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their dollar remittances to the country’s economy have continued to increase despite the global financial crisis.

President Arroyo is silently endorsing Charter change (Cha-cha) with her refusal to personally make a public statement that she will step down in Malacañang in June 2010.

Long-standing problems on corruption in the Philippines, inadequate infrastructure, poor governance, unsound business policies and a weak rule of law continue to keep European investors at bay, the European Union’s top diplomat to the country said.

There will be at least 350,000 new graduates of Philippine colleges and universities this year. Not all will find jobs in the field they have earned diplomas in.