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by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) – Aug 2, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The proposed bill raising taxes on alcohol, heated tobacco products and e-cigarettes is expected to raise close to P370 billion over the next five years, addressing funding gap for health care services, according to Finance Undersecretary Karl Kendrick Chua.

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), Aug 2, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The government had missed out on P441 billion worth of tax incentives that could have been rationalized in 2017, the Department of Finance (DOF) said.

By Ma. Teresa Montemayor, Aug 1, 2019 MANILA — The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led on Wednesday the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a multi-purpose building that would house victims of human trafficking for their full rehabilitation and recovery.

by: Philippine News Agency, Aug 1, 2019 ANKARA, Turkey — Children are one of the most affected victims of human trafficking, UNited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on July 30.

by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star), Aug 1, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — More than 1.8 million students in public schools across the country are undernourished, according to the latest data released by the Department of Education (DepEd).

by Federico D. Pascual Jr. (The Philippine Star), Aug 1, 2019 THE NEGATIVE unintended consequence was debated at length before the law (RA 11202) was passed recently to expand paid maternity leave to 105 days, but some employers are reportedly still weighing options on hiring female workers.

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) – Aug 1, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Even before it can be drafted and submitted for approval, the country’s largest labor group has rejected any new version or “tweaking” of the Security of Tenure (SOT) bill.

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by Rosamond Hutt, 31 Jul 2019 “Sluggish and precarious. But it doesn’t have to be this way because some of this is self-inflicted.” That’s how the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Chief Economist Gita Gopinath recently summed up the state of global growth.

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By: John Nery – @jnery_newsstand Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jul 30, 2019 It is possible that we misjudged public anger over the Chinese ramming of the fishing boat Gem-Ver 1 and the deliberate and merciless abandonment of the 22 fishermen on board. But it does not seem likely, for various reasons. Like the CCTV footage of…

by Rina Chandran | @rinachandran | Thomson Reuters Foundation, 30 Jul 2019 BANGKOK, July 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than three people were murdered each week last year while protecting their land from encroaching industries, a human rights group said on Tuesday, with a four-fold increase in killings related to conflicts over water.

by Atty. Josephus Jimenez (The Freeman), Jul 30, 2019 The veto of the so-called “Security of Tenure Law” demonstrates that we have a leader willing to bite the bullet and tell the masses they are wrong, and what they demand isn’t good for them in the long run. Our president is not like a populist…

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By Ralph Jennings, Jul 29, 2019 TAIPEI – Poverty in the Philippines, a chronic development issue that makes the country an outlier in Asia, is declining because of economic strength followed by job creation.

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) – Jul 27, 2019 After veto of Security Of Tenure bill MANILA, Philippines — After the veto of the Security of Tenure bill, the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) urged the government to conduct greater consultations with the private sector and worker groups to modernize the Labor Code and…

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by Julie M. Aurelio, Karl R. Ocampo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jul 27, 2019 President Duterte said suspending the importation of rice during the harvest seasons would be a “happy compromise” between helping boost farmers’ income and making sure the staple would be available year-round.

by Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jul 27, 2019 Factory worker Geraldine Gomez felt that President Duterte gave her and many other contractual employees false hopes when he promised in his 2016 presidential campaign an end to contractualization in the workforce.

by Coconuts Manila, Jul 26, 2019 The man on top of Europe’s list of online child sex offenders has been arrested by authorities in Cebu, non-governmental organization International Justice Mission (IJM) announced yesterday.

by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jul 26, 2019 No thanks to the delayed implementation of the 2019 national budget and the trade tensions between the United States and China, the International Monetary Fund has slashed by half a percentage point to 6 percent its growth forecast for the Philippines for this year.

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by Gaea Katreena Cabico (Philstar.com), Jul 26, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — After President Rodrigo Duterte rejected a proposed legislation seeking to end the practice of labor-only contracting, some lawmakers and labor groups vowed they would again push for the approval of a Security of Tenure Bill in the 18th Congress.