BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 29 (PIA) – Officials and members of the International Trade Union Congress – Asia Pacific’s (ITUC-AP’s) Philippine affiliates, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), Federation of Free Workers (FFW) and Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) recently made a joint call for action to combat gender-based violence (GBV),…

A 59-year-old carpenter was electrocuted in Quezon City Saturday, police said yesterday. Police identified the 59-year-old victim as Diego Carlos Medina, of Cainta, Rizal.

The iconic Burnham Hotel was being demolished by workers when the accident took place BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – A worker was killed and at least 3 others were hurt when one of the walls of the condemned Burnham Hotel collapsed late Saturday morning, September 26. Police said that construction workers of Alfonso Lao Construction were…

This is part of a series on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Size now matters: in a single human lifetime we have become a big world on a small planet.

MANILA, Philippines – The Iskolar ng Bayan scholarship program is getting P382.2 million in funding next year, Pasig Rep. Roman Romulo, who chairs the House committee on higher education, said Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)’s Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) is set to launch an initial 400 cyber technical-vocational (tech-voc) education centers nationwide next week.

The key to understanding the Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL) Track of Senior High School is studying the Curriculum Guides posted on the website of the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines — Fitch Ratings on Thursday gave the Philippines’ credit rating a “positive” outlook, an improvement from “stable”, on back of the economy’s proven resiliency against external shocks because of solid fundamentals.

QUEZON CITY, Sept. 23 (PIA) – One in five respondents reported personal experience with domestic violence (DV) at some point in their life, the Philippines’ first ever national survey on the impact of domestic violence on workers and in workplaces released today revealed.

PARIS – Europe is facing an historic moment. By the end of this year, the number of people applying for asylum in the European Union will exceed one million. The human cost of this refugee crisis is appalling. Yet, in all but a handful of cases, the response of Europe’s governments has been tentative, at…

If you thought traffic in Los Angeles was bad, just wait until you see how bad it gets in other major cities around the world.

A farmer harvests rice on a field next to residential buildings on the outskirts of Hanoi. Asia’s growth outlook has taken a haircut from slowdowns in China and India as well as developed markets’ soft recovery, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a new report, cutting its forecasts for the region.

While most Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) earn better in other countries, some of them still experience financial problems despite years of hard work due to inefficient money management. The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) has identified over-dependency of families and relatives of OFWs as one of the common causes why workers abroad struggle with their…

MANILA, Philippines — The government has earmarked P98.5 million to provide free college education to eligible dependents of sugar industry workers and small cane farmers, Pasig Representative Roman Romulo, chairman of the House of Representatives’ committee on higher and technical education, said.

AS THE 2016 presidential race heats up, foreign investors look forward to Filipinos electing a president with “integrity and a clear-cut economic agenda,” the country chief of European banking giant ING said. “We would want to have a leader with integrity. I think that kind of covers a lot of things that you would want…

Climate negotiations and the 2°C target The climate negotiations in December in Paris will be the funeral of the 2°C target (Doyle and Wallace 2015). It will be an expensive funeral, with tens of thousands of mourners in attendance. The Paris proceedings will re-open the question: How bad is it if the world would warm…

“A far more painful and insidious process.” If the 1997 Asian financial crisis was a heart attack for emerging markets, the current situation is akin to chronic cardiovascular disease, according to Macquarie analysts led by Viktor Shvets and Chetan Seth.

Having to give a speech in front of an audience can cause some people to shake, sweat, get sick, or freeze in terror. The root of this fear is simple: It’s scary because it’s unfamiliar to anyone who doesn’t regularly perform to a crowd.

STRUCTURAL SHIFT IN REVENUES TO KEEP PH STABLE The economy is on the brink of a structural shift, with revenues from call centers and other outsourcing firms expected to soon match the contribution of cash transfers from migrant workers.

This is part of a series on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This article focuses on goal 1 – End poverty in all its forms everywhere. The first goal in the soon-to-be minted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is quite a curtain-raiser: it calls on us to work…

30 July 2015, Manila –TUCP-affiliate Obrero Pilipino (OP) gears up for new collective bargaining negotiations after winning two certification elections covering some seven hundred workers in Laguna Technopark, a privately-run special economic zone in South Luzon.

This is a case where our Supreme Court has occasion to apply and explain quite clearly, the principle of the separation of Church and State. It is squarely applicable to the recent events involving the INC that will surely settle the controversies that may have arisen in the aftermath of the protest rallies that its…

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign business groups in the Philippines are pressing the government to pass a bill that aims to reduce income taxes, saying it will help make the country more competitive with other economies in the region.

THE Philippines is spearheading the preparation of a new strategic plan for tourism in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), and is bent on including gender parity and inclusive growth as regional objectives. This developed as the Department of Tourism (DOT) believes the integration of the Asean into one economic community will help boost…

Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky asked Peter Thiel, who invested in the company, for the single most important piece of advice he had for Airbnb. Thiel replied, “Don’t fuck up the culture.” This was a great advice, not just for Airbnb but also for every organization operating in the sharing economy. However, a couple…

MANILA, Philippines – Families of Filipinos working and living abroad are saving and investing less as they prioritize their spending amid the turbulence in the global financial markets, a survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.