Omar Hasan, Agence France-Presse, Jul 15 2016 Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse.

SHANA LEBOWITZ STRATEGY, Jul. 15, 2015 People may judge you based on the way you drink. From the moment two people meet, they’re sizing each other up, looking for signs of qualities like honesty, intelligence, and altruism.

The problem could be worse as the statistics are based only on who get tested and not on the entire population David Lozada @iamdavidlozada, July 14, 2016 SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines – Around 25 Filipinos get diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) daily, according to a report released by the Department of Health (DOH)…

by: H. Marcos C. Mordeno, July 14, 2016 SUBIC, Zambales (MindaNews/14 July) – The number of people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Philippines will reach 133,000 by 2022 based on the current rate of infections, a health official said Thursday. Dr. Genesis May Samonte, program manager of the Epidemiology Bureau of the Department…

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), July 13, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The government will run out of contraceptives for Filipino women within the next two years if the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the Supreme Court (SC) on reproductive health products is not lifted, the Commission on Population (Popcom) said yesterday.

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star), March 13, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) yesterday assured the public that the agency’s finances remain stable and reforms are in place to ensure fund sustainability.

Former Finance Minister Pedro Aspe says the right policies can ensure everyone is better off from globalization by Craig Torres ctorresreporter, July 12, 2016 Globalization is under fire in some developed economies. But in parts of the Americas voters are embracing leaders looking to deepen integration and trade. Bloomberg Benchmark is publishing a series of…

By Betchai Julian, Abante, July 11, 2016 Sugatan ang limang construction workers nang aksidenteng bumagsak ang isang scaffolding habang kinukumpuni ang isang eskwelahan sa loob ng Kalibo Integrated Special Education Center (KISEC) compound sa Kalibo, Aklan.

by Mike Snider, USA TODAY, July 11, 2016 Microsoft and GE are joining forces to use cloud technologies in industrial production. GE will bring its Predix industrial data-gathering operating system to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, the two companies announced Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.

Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 10th, 2016 Worrisome is the announcement of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that the Philippines is the only country in the Asia-Pacific with rising numbers of teenage pregnancies in the past two decades. It’s bad enough when there are more children than can be properly nourished and cared for in…

by Atty. Alex B. Cabrera (The Philippine Star), July 10, 2016 I experienced my first 24-hour daylight while in Iceland on vacation. It was strange, but not too bad, really. In fact, it was energizing to have sunlight at midnight. You sleep just a tad bothered when you wake up into temporary consciousness at 2…

By Armida Rico, Abante, July 9, 2016 Pinapauwi na sa Pilipinas ng kanyang amo ang isang domestic helper makaraang maaktuhang nakikipagtalik sa nobyong Pinoy sa Jeddah.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), July 9, 2016 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines remains the world’s top call center destination despite growing challenge from other countries, the Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP) said.

http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=TopStory&title=Millions-of-SE-Asian-jobs-may-be-lost-to-automation-in-next-20-years—-ILO&id=130091 SINGAPORE — More than half of workers in five Southeast Asian countries are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation in the next two decades, an International Labor Organization (ILO) study found, with those in the garments industry particularly vulnerable.

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), July 7, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has set conditions for the implementation of the K-12 work immersion program.

By Melissa Luz T. Lopez, Reporter, Businessworld, July 07, 2016 THE NEW government’s economic managers warned against being too reliant on the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, as advances in technology could take the place of workers, thereby reducing the segment’s contribution to the economy.

by Anders Borg, Chair, World Economic Forum’s Global Financial System Initiative, 6 July 2016 The world after the Brexit referendum is fundamentally different. It will take decades before we will see the full consequences for Great Britain and the European Union. The process of negotiating a way forward for the co-existence of the United Kingdom…

By Helen Flores (The Philippine Star), July 6, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The number of unemployed Filipinos rose by nearly two million in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

By Prinz Magtulis (The Philippine Star), July 6, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Growth targets and other macroeconomic assumptions were slashed yesterday as the new administration opted to be “conservative” despite planned aggressive spending focused on infrastructure. Gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all products and services created, is targeted to rise between six and…

Laura El-Katiri, JULY 06, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/07/saudi-arabias-labor-market-challenge?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvardbiz Saudi Arabia is in the middle of a major economic transformation, one whose scope and intensity may merit the label “unprecedented.”

Labor strikes, wage increase, and historical issues are reasons many Japanese manufacturers want to exit China and enter the Philippines Chrisee Dela Paz, June 05, 2015, http://www.rappler.com/business/industries/95369-japanese-manufacturers-china-relocate-philippines MANILA, Philippines – Around 200 Japanese companies in China want to relocate their bases here in the Philippines, as declining economic growth and rising wages there are making…

by Chito A. Chavez, July 4, 2016 (updated), http://www.mb.com.ph/involuntary-hunger-up-by-13-7-percent-sws/ A survey network said that the number of families that experienced involuntary hunger rose to 3.1 million in the first quarter of 2016, up from the previous quarter’s 2.6 million families.

By Edu Punay (The Philippine Star), July 4, 2016 – 12:00am In a one-page legal opinion sent to the Office of the President last June 23, the DOJ expressed its full support to House Bill 5417, the Proposed Philippine Credit Card Industry Regularion Law. Philstar.com/File photo MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Justice (DOJ) has…

by PERSIDA ACOSTA, Manila Times, July 4, 2016 Persida Acosta Dear PAO, I currently employ several household helpers in our home in Manila. Most of them are from far-flung provinces. In order to get their services, I usually pay for their transportation expenses, which include their food for the trip and financial allowance they need…

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star), July 3, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines ranks 15th out of the 23 countries in the Western Pacific with youth smokers.

By Nonnie Ferriol, Abante, July 2, 2016 Wala ng buhay na bumagsak sa lupa ang isang electrician makaraang aksidenteng mahulog mula sa bubungan ng isang bahay sa Quezon City, kamakalawa.

By: Joseph Jadway D. Marasigan @inquirerdotnet, July 1st, 2016 Twenty years ago, we didn’t have social media. Ten years before then, we didn’t have the web. If you work in web programming, online marketing, or mobile apps development, your job didn’t exist 20 years ago. Who knows the kind of jobs that will exist, say,…

by Boo Chanco (The Philippine Star), July 1, 2016 Today is the first day of the Duterte administration and there is a mountain range of high expectations. The past administration is leaving behind a number of crisis situations and new ones seem to be erupting every day. Over the last month, there had been five…

By WAYNE COLE, Reuters, July 1, 2016, http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/572024/money/economy/asian-factories-struggle-brexit-throws-up-new-threats?utm_source=GMANews&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=GMANewsTwitter SYDNEY – China’s factories flatlined in June as exports shrank and jobs were cut, a worrying trend evident across Asia that argues for yet more policy stimulus as doubts gather over the potency of measures taken so far.

By Ramon Efren Lazaro (The Philippine Star), June 30, 2016, http://www.philstar.com/campus/education/2016/06/30/1598049/tvet-relevant-asean-integration CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines – Job opportunities and prospects for graduates of technical-vocational education and training (TVET) were highlighted in a forum at Fontana Hotel in this Freeport recently.