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The Philippines has one of the worst cases of income inequality in the world, according to Credit Suisse in its annual global wealth report.
By: Daphne Galvez, INQINQUIRER.net, 28 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for a new law that penalizes catcalling, wolf-whistling, sexist and homophobic slurs, unwanted sexual advances and other forms of sexual harassment in public spaces, workplaces, schools, and online were signed on Monday.
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There are 52,135 Filipinos who are worth at least $1 million, according to Credit Suisse’s annual global wealth report.
by Ronald Reyes, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 Oct 2019 An appellate court in Canada has increased the prison term of Canadian national Philip Michael Chicoine who was originally ordered to spend 12 years in prison for the livestreamed sexual abuse of Filipino children in MacArthur town in Leyte.
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by Ben O. de Vera, 25 Oct 2019 The rate of increase in the prices of commodities purchased by poor Filipinos further slowed to 0.9 percent in September, marking a 46-month low as food prices and cost of utilities declined year-on-year.
by Ronnel W. Domingo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 25 Oct 2019 The Philippine government is rallying not only national agencies but also local governments in a bid to be among the top 40 percent of world’s economies in terms of ease in doing business.
By Bernadette D. Nicolas, Business Mirror, 25 October 2019 FARMERS may have to wait for at least one or two years before they can get protection from the influx of rice imports as a result of the rice trade liberalization law.
by Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News, 25 Oct 2019 MANILA – Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo vowed to reduce packaging and recycle waste, after they were named top “plastic polluters” by environmental network Break Free From Plastic.
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By: Krissy Aguilar, INQINQUIRER.net, 24 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino-Taiwanese woman suspected of being a member of a human trafficking syndicate has been arrested by authorities at Clark International Airport (CIA) in Angeles City, Pampanga.
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By: Karl R. Ocampo, Philippine Daily Inquirer / 24 Oct 2019 Rosadilla Limbres has been planting palay for the past three decades in her hometown of Bukidnon, but she described the last three years as the hardest time she had in farming.
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by JONATHAN LLANES, 23 Oct 2019 PASIG CITY — Child labor remains to be the leading violation against children in the country as per data gathered by the Fundacion Educacion Cooperacion or Educo, a global development non-government organization.
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by Jovic Yee, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 22 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has bucked the trend of a steady global decline in HIV cases, becoming the country with the “fastest growing epidemic” of the sexually transmitted infection, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
by Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star) – 22 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Unless the Philippines implements some “drastic moves,” the number of persons affected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) will hit 201,000 by 2025, according to the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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CEOs, Silicon Valley investors, and techno-academics talk to themselves about new technologies, but workers must have a say in these debates as well. BY STEVEN GREENHOUSE, 22 Oct 2019 There’s something hugely awry with many of the discussions about the wave of new technologies confronting us and what they mean for the future of work:…
by Ratziel San Juan (Philstar.com), 22 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Bureau of Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente warned Philippine airport personnel against “passengers disguised as tourists who were illegally recruited to work overseas.”
by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 21 Oct 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The government’s offer of a one-time P5,000 cash assistance to the country’s farmers is of little worth, as the rice industry’s liberalization has cost them way more than that, a farmers’ group said over the weekend.
June 2025
Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideosturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
1 Jun – World Day of Parents
5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 Jun – World Refugee Day
25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
Daily Observances:
June 6: Migrant Workers Day
June 19: Filipino Youth Day
June 25: Day of the Filipino Seafarer
