Every year, approximately 5,300 colleges and universities in the U.S. busily churn out thousands of graduates. And American higher education remains a sought-after commodity worldwide, as evidenced by the million-plus (according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) international students flocking to the U.S. to study.

Aggregate exports of goods and services likely declined 2.4 percent last year, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

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By LAURA SECORUN PALET, February 17, 2016 There’s nothing sexy about forced porn. Bekunda Sunday still remembers the pride in his mom’s voice when he told her he’d landed a job in Kenya. He was 24 and studying tourism in Kampala, the capital of next-door Uganda. Struggling for money, he couldn’t believe his luck when…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has stopped the construction of an irrigation project in Quezon after an accident that left two workers dead.

AFTER 18 long years, the legality of a strike by 24 pilots of Philippine Airlines (PAL) in 1998 was resolved by the Supreme Court. The high court ruled that, except for one lady pilot, Gladys Jadie, the rest of the strikers were validly dismissed from the company for failure to comply with the return-to-work order…

Isang 25-anyos na janitor ang nahulog sa ikatlong palapag ng Victory Mall sa Monumento, Caloocan City Martes ng gabi. Kinilala ang biktima na si Ryan Agabon, residente ng Phase I, Paradise Village, Letre, Barangay Tonsuya, Malabon.

The efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS are painfully slowly gaining ground. Is it because sex is so good victims can’t resist engaging in it without protection? Is it because people who have them are too shamed to reveal they “have it”?

Barely eight years after the 2008 global economic meltdown, economists are again talking of another worldwide recession. Just a few years ago the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – were poised to join the Group of Seven – USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan among the economic superpowers.…

It will take 118 years to close the gender-pay gap in the workplace, the World Economic Forum predicted last year. Despite its documented existence, however, most American workers don’t notice the difference between what men and women make, new research shows.

To date, there are already 40 sectoral roadmaps submitted to the Bureau of Investments. Of the 40, 32 roadmaps have been completed and are currently being implemented or for implementation, while the rest are still subject to enhancement or finalization.

10/02/2016 – Most countries have made little progress helping their weakest students improve their performance in reading, mathematics and science over the past decade. This means too many young people are still leaving school without the basic skills needed in today’s society and workplace, hurting their futures and long-term economic growth, according to a new…

REMITTANCES from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may grow at just half the pace expected by monetary authorities this year, as the prolonged slump in global oil prices gnaws sharply on the Middle East, which hosts about 2.5 million Filipino migrant workers.

The Philippines has overtaken Thailand and Vietnam as the investment destination of choice in Asia among Japanese companies diversifying beyond China, a ranking official of the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro) told The STAR.

Superficial injuries and open wounds were the most common occupational-health risks faced by laborers nationwide, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Central banks’ ultra-loose monetary policy is putting the world economy at risk, said William White, a senior adviser to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

To help more young Filipinos obtain a college degree, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) should improve student loans, according to a study released by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).

WITH the recent signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, the possibility of the Philippines joining the 12 nations that are currently part of the pact has again become a mildly popular topic of conversation. Opinions are mixed – as they are in the countries that must now individually ratify the agreement – as…

CAMP JUAN, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte – Isang karpintero ang namatay pagkatapos umanong masaksak ng isang electric hand drill sa Barangay Caraitan, Badoc, Ilocos Norte noong Biyernes.

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Call centres have created millions of good jobs in the emerging world. Technology threatens to take those jobs away again WHETHER in Nairobi or Albuquerque, a shopping centre is not really a shopping centre unless it has at least two anchor tenants. These can be department stores, cinemas or bookshops—anything that will fill a large…

MANILA – Globally, new HIV infections have been falling in recent years, but in the Philippines, HIV infection rates have consistently risen at alarming rates.

EXPERT TELLS GOV’T TO EASE FOREIGN RESTRICTIONS The Philippines has the potential to become a global investment destination and the next big information technology hub by liberalizing foreign restrictions on property ownership, said an executive from the Indian unit of international property consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

MANILA, Philippines – Responding to numerous complaints of credit card holders on hidden charges, excessive fees and harassment by collection agents, a law to regulate the credit card industry will soon be enacted.

ALL OVER the country, we hear cries of patients who could die because of insufferable hospital and doctors’ fees sooner than from their ailments. There is this joke which has passed on to reality of people surviving their hospitalization but dying after a heart attack upon seeing the bill.

Last Jan. 13, the Department of Education (DepEd) issued a clarification on the Senior High School (SHS) Voucher Program. Among the important instructions in DepEd Order No. 1, series of 2016, is yet another reminder to students, parents, and (yes!) DepEd officials that the program “will empower students with the choice to pursue their desired…

This article is published in collaboration with Project Syndicate. January is usually expected to be a good month for stock markets, with new money gushing into investment funds, while tax-related selling abates at the end of the year. Although the data on investment returns in the United States actually show that January profits have historically…

Learning to Earn, the 3rd pillar of UNESCO’s 21st Century Education has been part of the educational pattern of upper secondary education of Europe, USA and Australia. With licensed expert instructors and fully equipped work areas provided in these continents, professional occupational training has enabled senior high school graduates – as well as unemployed adults…

Almost all Filipinos want their president to succeed. Only politics makes it difficult to see through this basic fact. Significant success of the president momentously moves the nation forward.

There’s been little change in the number of teenage pregnancies in the Philippines, says a UN agency MANILA, Philippines – Young, sexually active, and clueless. That is how some unwanted pregnancies start out in the Philippines and elsewhere.