THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) Western Visayas has recently declared 21 child labor-free barangays in six local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental.

THE sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal now being debated would cover everything, from Vietnamese labor unions to copyright protections to trade in sockeye salmon. With the details having been released on Thursday, a furious dispute is expected in the US and some of the 11 other countries that negotiated it.

In recent years, citizens’ concerns about allegations of corruption in the public sector have become more visible and widespread. From São Paulo to Johannesburg, citizens have taken to the streets against graft. In countries like Chile, Guatemala, India, Iraq, Malaysia and Ukraine, they are sending a clear and loud message to their leaders: Address corruption!

MANILA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — In any major undertaking, especially if it involves countries with different economic structures and stages of development, there is bound to be different views and expectations. While the Philippine government is enthusiastic about the benefits that the country can get from the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by…

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – A million “food guardians” will be generated for 100 million Filipino rice consumers after the National Food Authority (NFA) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) reported that wastage of rice had gone up to P10 billion yearly or around P27 million daily.

SINGAPORE—Like many maids in Singapore, Dewie, 27, came here for a bigger pay check to support her young children. She could endure the backbreaking hours, even the repeated scoldings, but what made her decide to leave was the closed-circuit television camera in the toilet.

FILIPINO employees, in flexible and highly digitized workplaces, are among the most avid users of productivity tools in Asia Pacific, according to Microsoft Corp.

27 October 2015 – While youth violence is not a simple problem with easy solutions, a new report launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores that prevention programmes can improve a broad range of health, education and social outcomes – and lead to potentially substantial economic savings.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger rose to 3.5 million in the third quarter of the year, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) found in its latest survey.

MANILA, Philippines – The manufacturing industry across Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, would suffer productivity losses in the next 30 years due to rising temperatures caused by climate change, a research showed.

3 November 2015 – Climate change poses severe and distinct threats to food security, and could subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080, a United Nations human rights expert warned today.

For the month of September alone, close to 700 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were recorded, increasing the number of cases for the year to almost 6,000, according to the Department of Health (DOH).

MANILA, Philippines – Microsoft has unveiled an Asia Pacific wide study that shows enterprises are lagging behind their employees’ expectations to be more productive, collaborative and innovative in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. The Study, conducted together with a global consultancy firm Organisation Solutions, also unveils the New World of Work Index comparing how workers perceive…

MANILA, Philippines – Road traffic deaths remain high, with around 1.5 million reported each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015.

(UPDATE2, – 9:20 p.m.) MANILA – Former labor leader and member of an independent commission that probed the 1983 Ninoy Aquino assassination, Ernesto “Boy” F. Herrera, who as senator later authored the 1995 Migrant Workers’ Act, died Thursday at the age of 73.

The Philippines is home to over 100 million Filipinos, yet there are only 690 psychiatrists and around 1,000 nurses working in psychiatric care

A new study suggests that by the end of the century, parts of the Middle East may become uninhabitable for human beings. Extreme heatwaves could create conditions in several Middle Eastern cities that would exceed the threshold of what human beings can endure. Scientists used what is known as ‘wet bulb temperature’ (WBT), the combination…

All public junior high school students who have completed Grade 10 are qualified voucher recipients and shall receive the full voucher value. Grade 10 Education Service Contracting (ESC) grantees from participating schools are also qualified voucher recipients and will be given 80% of the voucher value.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino signed into law yesterday the bill amending the Public Employment Service Act of 1999 to further help people in rural areas secure jobs more easily.

MANILA – A student of Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila got a perfect score in the 2015 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC). Grade 8 student Andres Rico Gonzales, 13, is one of the 42 students worldwide who got perfect scores among the 300,000 participants from 40 countries in this year’s AMC.

Migration remains ‘essentially an urban affair’ according to a new report published by the International Organisation for Migration. The World Migration Report 2015 – Migrants and Cities: New Partnerships to Manage Mobility estimates that there are 232 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants around the world. Nearly 50% of all international migrants reside…

THE Aquino administration likes to brag that the business environment has improved remarkably since it took over almost six years ago. That may be true but the plight of workers has not.

The Philippines’ business process outsourcing (BPO) sector will continue to thrive in the coming years. This was the prediction made by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Philippines Inc. Rick M. Santos, chair and chief executive officer who founded the company two decades ago.

Ms. Helen Orande is a member of ASEAN CSR Network’s Board of trustees and is also the Executive Director of the League of Corporate Foundations. Here, Ms. Orande talks about how CSR in the Philippines has evolved past philanthropy and charity. to where it is done because it is the right thing to do. She…

Opening up more opportunities to jobseekers, the Department of Labor and Employment will be conducting nationwide job fairs until the end of 2015, to be hosted by Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs).

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 October) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Region 12 has stepped up its interventions to facilitate the tuna industry players’ compliance with international labor standards.

Filipinos continue to seek credit from loan sharks and other informal lenders than go to banks for their financial needs, according to the results of a World Bank survey.

After Election Day, will the country be able to reclaim territory from dynasties, or will the bleeding continue? Last week thousands of people trooped to the Comelec to file their certificates of candidacy (COC), many of them vying for seats in local offices where members of their families hold monopolies of power. After the dust…

In the recent Asia pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting held in Iloilo the first week of October, the two main subjects under discussion were disaster risk reduction and the increasingly important role of women in Southeast Asian economies. Founded in 1989, with 21 members, APEC’s challenge today is to develop more micro, small, and medium…