By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 27 Sept 2019 Some foreign and local business groups want the government to continue implementing the rice tariffication law despite mounting calls to amend or repeal the months-old legislation.

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By: Darryl John Esguerra, INQINQUIRER.net, 27 Sept 2019 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the creation of the National Council Against Child Labor to strengthen government efforts for the protection of children’s rights.

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By: Christia Marie Ramos, INQUIRER.net, 26 Sept 2019 MANILA, Philippines – The sin tax shares of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) in the proposed 2020 budget is P28.3 billion short of what the law mandates, Senator Ralph Recto said.

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by ABS-CBN News, 25 Sep 2019 MANILA—Most sexually active Filipinos don’t always use condoms, a survey this year has found, which puts them at risk of sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy.

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by Mary Grace Padin (The Philippine Star) – Sept 25, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The proposed fiscal incentive system under the Corporate Income Tax and Incentive Rationalization Act (CITIRA) bill may lead to 703,000 job losses in the first year of its implementation, according to the Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) of the Philippines.

By: Neil Arwin Mercado, INQINQUIRER.net, 25 Sep 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Two minors, aged 14 and 17, were maltreated after being illegally deployed to Saudi Arabia to work as domestic helpers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said Wednesday.

By: Neil Arwin Mercado, INQINQUIRER.net, 25 Sept 2019 MANILA, Philippines — There were no safety officers or first-aid respondents on site when a portion of a Sogo hotel branch under demolition in Manila collapsed, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported Wednesday.

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by Constance Dierickx, 25 Sep 2019 The stakes are high when a new leader takes over. Despite their training and experience, a full 74% of new leaders say they are unprepared for the new role, and in 18 months nearly half of them disappoint or fail entirely. In many cases, leaders either judge too quickly,…

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by Wilmer T. Tardio (The Philippine Star) – 24 Sept 2019 As a second tranche of the comprehensive tax reform package, House Bill 4157, also known as the Corporate Income Tax and Incentives Rationalization Act (CITIRA), which replaced the Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-quality Opportunities (TRABAHO) bill, was approved by the House of…

by Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) – 24 Sept 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines, whose relations with international bodies have turned sour, has been listed among 48 countries that registered a rising retaliation against civil society groups and human rights defenders who have been cooperating with the United Nations.

by Marton Dunai, Geert De Clercq, 24 Sep 2019 BUDAPEST/PARIS (Reuters) – Nuclear power is losing ground to renewables in terms of both cost and capacity as its reactors are increasingly seen as less economical and slower to reverse carbon emissions, an industry report said.

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By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 24 Sep 2019 Foreign businessmen on Tuesday, Sept. 24, warned that more than 700,000 jobs would disappear in just a year if Philippine government efforts to revise a system for tax incentives led to the incentives’ removal.

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by Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News, 23 Sep 2019 MANILA—The Department of Health (DOH) is calling on local government units (LGUs) to intensify efforts toward zero open defecation amid the resurgence of the poliovirus in the country.

If passed into law, the bill would integrate labor education into the mandatory social science subjects under the general education curriculum by Mara Cepeda, Rappler, 23 Sep 2019 MANILA, Philippines – A bill that would require higher education institutions to integrate into their general education curriculum the rights of Filipino laborers hurdled the House of…

(4th UPDATE) A Hotel Sogo prematurely collapses while undergoing demolition in Manila by Rambo Talabong, 23 Sep 2019 MANILA, Philippines (4th UPDATE) – Two construction workers were declared dead and one of their colleagues were injured after a Hotel Sogo branch in Malate, Manila, prematurely collapsed as it was undergoing demolition on Monday, September 23.

By: Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 Sept 2019 AboitizLand has made its debut in Metro Manila’s property market, choosing the residential apartment-for rent business as its vehicle with a fresh deal to buy 50 percent of microstudio apartment developer Point Blue.

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