By: Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 19, 2019 The peso is seen weakening to 55 to $1 by year-end as the yawning current-account deficit mainly due to strong imports and weak exports continues to put pressure on the local currency, London-based Capital Economics said.

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By Elijah Felice Rosales, Business Mirror, Jun 19, 2019 THE country’s antitrust body has trimmed to 15 working days, from 30 calendar days, its review period for merger proposals in line with the government’s policy on ease of doing business (EODB).

by Roel Pareño (Philstar.com) – Jun 19, 2019 ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Naval intelligence and members of the Inter-agency Council Against Trafficking intercepted a boat carrying at least 100 victims of human trafficking in waters off Zamboanga City on Tuesday night.

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by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), Jun 18, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Major associations of local manning agencies yesterday asked the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of the Social Security System (SSS) Rationalization Act, which requires mandatory membership of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

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by Business World, Jun 18, 2019 PAYPAL HOLDINGS, Inc. said a study it conducted has found that nearly 70% of freelancers in the Philippines have business plans, signalling their intention to make occasional work assignments become more sustainable over the long term.

BY BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO, Manila Times, Jun 18, 2019 INCOMING senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on Monday laid down his priority bills in the 18th Congress, which include the proposal to increase the salary of teachers.

by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 18, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Tobacco-producing local government units (LGUs) will receive a total of P15.8 billion in shares from cigarette excise taxes collected in 2016.

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by Anna Felicia Bajo/DVM, GMA News, Jun 17, 2019 An infrastructure-oriented think tank on Monday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to gauge the objections of various groups before signing off on the Solar Para sa Bayan (SPSB) franchise.

by Christia Marie Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 17, 2019 Moratorium on SSS, PhilHealth OFW premium hikes sought MANILA, Philippines — A non-government organization (NGO) on labor migration called for the moratorium on all premium hikes to be collected from Filipino migrant workers as it warned that this would likely push workers away from seeking…

by Iris Gonzales (The Philippine Star), Jun 17, 2019 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — On the fourth floor of an offshore gaming firm somewhere in Paranaque City, a sprawling cafeteria serves a variety of Chinese food.

by Karlston Lapniten, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 17, 2019 BAGUIO CITY, Benguet, Philippines — The Philippines had planned to be self-sufficient in rice by 2017 and be at par with rice exporting countries like Vietnam and Thailand.

By Rea Cu, Business Mirror, Jun 17, 2019 RELEASES under the Social Security System’s Pension Loan Program (PLP) have hit the P1-billion mark, with around 42,000 people availing since its implementation in September 2018, the SSS reported on Sunday.

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by Manila Standard, Jun 16, 2019 Employers in the private sector were urged by the labor department to uphold the rights of the Filipino workers to security of tenure and help the government to curb illegal forms of contractualization or ‘endo.’

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by Manila Standard, Jun 16, 2019 The Association of Concerned Teachers partylist countered DepEd’s claim that teachers are taken cared of with the doubling of their salaries in two decades by raising the fact that salaries of cabinet members increased by 570% and the president’s basic pay by 606% since 2000.

by Consuelo Marquez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 15, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has vowed to push for the granting of hazard pay and more benefits for the agency’s traffic enforcers.

By: Mahar Mangahas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jun 15, 2019 Of the estimated 30.6 million adult Filipino users of the internet—see “First Quarter 2019 Social Weather Survey: Internet usage steady at 46% of adult Filipinos,” www.sws.org.ph, 6/4/19—virtually all have Facebook (FB). It is three times as popular as YouTube.

by Yongping Zhai, Jun 14, 2019 As the world responds to climate change, energy systems are evolving, and fast. The past 10 years have seen the rise (and dramatic cost reduction) of renewables such as wind and solar, to the extent that they are no longer considered ‘alternative’ energy.

By Dan Murtaugh, Jun 14, 2019 Hydrogen, which has been touted as the fuel of the future much of the past five decades, may finally be on the verge of converting its potential to reality.

by Eva Visperas (The Philippine Star), Jun 13, 2019 URBIZTONDO, Pangasinan, Philippines — A television lineman died after he fell from a tree while installing cables in Barangay Dalanguiring in this town on Tuesday.

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by Margaret Claire Layug/NB, GMA News, Jun 12, 2019 The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is planning to “slow down” the deployment of nurses abroad as there was a “great need” for people with the said profession locally.

By Elijah Felice Rosales, Business Mirror, Jun 12, 2019 Workers cook brown sugar in a factory in Bacolod, Negros Occidental. Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez told the BusinessMirror the government remains firm in keeping sugar prices low by shunning plans to liberalize the sugar trade industry.

by Business World, Jun 12, 2019 THE Department of Finance (DoF) has been ordered to step up its legislative liaison activities to ensure the passage of the remaining tax reform packages, ahead of the opening of the 18th Congrss on July 22, among other priorities that include exploring import liberalization for more agricultural products and…