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by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) – Dec 26, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is pushing for more non-electronics exports for next year to diversify the country’s merchandise shipments and help promote development in the countryside.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (philstar.com) – Dec 26, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ adult population is likely to be cut by 9 percent due to migration, according to a new Gallup poll, which also sees an exodus of young talents already at home.

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by Jose Ramon G Albert, PIDS, Dec 26, 2018 Despite the Philippines recording an impressive average annual GDP growth rate of 5.3 per cent during 2003–15, this growth has not benefitted all Filipinos equally. Income poverty was estimated at a quarter of the population from 2003–12. This only reduced to 21.6 per cent in 2015.…

By Ferdinand Patinio/PNA, Dec 26, 2018 MANILA –The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has recently revealed that the government is putting up six more Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLO) in several countries where there are Philippine embassies.

By Samuel P. Medenilla, Business Mirror, Dec 26, 2018 About 7 million jobs are expected to be generated in Key Employment Generating (KEG) industries by 2022, according to a new report by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) – Dec 25, 2018 (Part 1) Most Filipinos never gave much thought about the growth in consumer prices in the past few years until its impact was felt with such force this year. Of all the commodity groups affected, the pinch was felt the most in food prices, particularly…

By Samuel P. Medenilla, Business Mirror, Dec 25, 2018 THE majority of companies in the country are compliant with government-imposed social protection wages despite higher minimum wages that took effect this year, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

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By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 24, 2018 The Board of Investments (BOI) registered P907.2 billion worth of investment pledges for 2018, setting another all-time high for the second year in a row.

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By Recto Mercene, Business Mirror, Dec 24, 2019 AIRPORT immigration agents stopped nine Filipinos they suspected as victims of human trafficking who disguised themselves as tourists while attempting to leave for Seoul, South Korea, via Taipei.

By Samuel P. Medenilla, Business Mirror, Dec 24, 2018 Studies that will look into the feasibility of raising real wage rates, which have stagnated for over a decade despite the country’s robust economic growth, are now under way according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star), Dec 24, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has rescued nine alleged victims of human trafficking at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

by LBG, GMA News, Dec 23, 2018 Philippines Immigration officers have rescued nine South Korea-bound Filipinos at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, believed to be victims of human trafficking syndicate.

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by BEN O. DE VERA, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 22, 2018 Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) members who want to avail themselves of the ongoing housing condonation program have been given by the state-run pension fund until Dec. 31 next year to do so.

By Dat Nguyen, Dec 22, 2018 Vietnam’s labor cost is the highest among comparator countries in Southeast Asia, a World Bank report says.

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by Richard Baldwin, Dec 22, 2019 “Globalization 4.0 has only just begun, but we are already vastly underprepared for it,” wrote Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, last month when announcing the theme of Davos 2019.

by Iris Gonzales, The Philippine Star, Dec 22, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The man, in his 60s, walks with a swagger and looks dapper in his chambray long-sleeved polo shirt and vintage blue jeans.

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By: Hermenegildo C. Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 20, 2018 Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has just revived the proposal to amend our Charter, converting the government from unitary to federal form. Advocates of federalization claim that the unitary government has not worked and, therefore, we should federalize. This approach, they say, will hasten economic development…

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By NICOLE-ANNE C. LAGRIMAS, GMA News, Dec 19, 2018 The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has stopped more than 28,000 Filipinos from leaving the country within the first 10 months of 2018 in what it claims is an outcome of the government’s “intensified” anti-human trafficking campaign.

By: Vince F. Nonato, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 19, 2018 The Commission on Audit (COA) has ordered high-ranking officials of the Social Security System to return over P71 million in excessive benefits granted to employees of its National Capital Region branches in 2010.

by Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News, Dec 19, 2018 MANILA – An alleged victim of illegal recruitment and human trafficking filed a complaint against a Makati-based recruitment agency at the Department of Justice on Wednesday morning.

by Gillian M. Cortez, Business Mirror, Dec 19, 2018 THE LABOR DEPARTMENT said over 400,000 contractual workers were converted to regular employment status this year, including more than half voluntarily regularized by their employers.

By Ferdinand Patinio, Dec 19, 2018 MANILA — Over 28,000 Filipino travelers have been barred by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) from leaving the country from January to October as part of the government’s intensified campaign against human trafficking.