More than a month ago, President Benigno Aquino III vetoed House Bill 5842 which proposed to increase the monthly pension of Social Security System pensioners by P2,000. The President defended his decision stating that supporting the bill will result in shortening the system’s fund life.

A traveler to the Philippines knows the dance too well. You check into a hotel that advertises Wi-Fi. Turns out it’s only available in the lobby, and only in the daytime. Then you learn of a freak service outage in the lobby. When you do eventually connect, no websites come up. On better days, each…

MANILA, Philippines – Mobile phone has become a necessity for the common man as more than three fourths of Filipinos look at their devices within 15 minutes after waking up, according to the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing to impose stricter standards on coal-fired power plants to contribute to climate change mitigation programs and the country’s commitment to lessen carbon emissions.

MANILA, Philippines – Two employees were injured in a fire that broke out in Phoenix Petroterminal and Industrial Park in Calaca, Batangas on Saturday.

Concerns on the possible fall of the country’s remittances once oil-producing countries start laying off jobs have been “overblown,” according to the research group of an international financial institution.

Associations of private schools are urging presidential candidates to increase the subsidy given by the government to privately owned higher education institutions (HEIs).

Tired of all the traffic on major thoroughfares? Here are some foolproof solutions gathered from frustrated motorists who are willing to face the consequences of some of these proposed solutions. Many if not all of these suggestions may not see the light of day in the near future due to a number of reasons. Read…

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.