This seems to be an anchoring move. Given that the company has and is willing to at least match your existing pay and you as the potential employee want to get the most money you can, what is the optimal strategy? Always tell the truth….but then add your total compensation expectations.

If you think that having an intimate partner will always keep you safe from contracting HIV, better think again. More women from the Asia-Pacific region — housewives and career women — are contracting HIV from their intimate partners. These women are either married, or have long-term relationships with men who engage in high-risk sexual behavior.…

MANILA – With the 2016 elections looming, survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda might just have to compete with other plans and projects for funds meant for the Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan (CRRP) for 2014 to 2016.

One of the issues always raised about formal education in the Philippines is its inability to supply students and graduates with the skills that employers are looking for. This is called the “mismatch” between what schools supply and what enterprises demand. Companies have to spend time and money training the fresh graduates that they hire.

The research: Yale doctoral candidate Matthew Fisher and his colleagues Mariel Goddu and Frank Keil asked people a series of questions that seemed answerable but were actually difficult. The questions concerned things people assume they know but actually don’t—such as why there are phases of the moon and how glass is made. Some people were…

Harmful impacts of global warming such as heat waves and sea level rise are mounting and show a need for a “radical transition” to a greener economy, a study presented at U.N. climate talks said on Tuesday.

The Philippines is now equipped for the economic integration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

MANILA, Philippines – Mindanao is experiencing rotational brownouts from an average of 1-4 hours due to the lower water level of dams, according to the Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee (MPMC).

Vancouver (CNN) — She’s the woman who co-discovered HIV in 1983, and won a Nobel Prize for her work. But next month, French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi will retire from her lab. She spoke with CNN at this week’s International AIDS Society Conference, in Vancouver, about activism, the future of HIV and why there’s still no…

More than 300 senior executives across the world’s most mature markets give us their take on the opportunities and challenges in HGMs.

The law comes as the Department of Education works on its ‘last mile’: bringing the schools to where the learners are MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III recently signed a law that creates a “learner-centered and flexible” open high school system in the Philippines.

THE PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority said it estimated tourism to have accounted for 7.8% of gross domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, quantifying the sector’s impact at P982.4 billion, up 14% year on year.

How bad would it be for the economy of the Philippines if remittances were to dry up? Such a scenario may be far off but an analysis of central bank data suggests both the composition and the total value of payments sent home by Filipino workers overseas are undergoing fundamental change. If recent trends continue,…

In the aftermath of the Semirara mining accident, labor officials say that mine safety and sanitation are under the mandate of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and the Department of Energy

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday arrested 180 Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indonesian nationals who were working illegally at an online gaming and call center company in Parañaque City.

FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, June 2015, Vol. 52, No. 2 Montfort Mlachila, René Tapsoba, and Sampawende Tapsoba High growth alone will not improve social conditions Translating strong growth into better living conditions is the holy grail for policymakers in developing economies, many of which have experienced strong economic growth in the past decade. But poverty, inequality,…

BY the end of this year, the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will proceed with regional integration by creating the single-market Asean Economic Community (AEC).

Search and retrieval operations for three miners lost in a mine collapse on Semirara Island in Antique are being hampered by the sheer amount of soil that equipment has to dig through.

If you have made it through to the final interview stage and on to the final interview presentation then a soft whisper of a congratulations are in order! By this stage you clearly have the personality and skills that your potential employer is looking for – now it’s time to seal the deal. Problem is,…

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two pocket miners died of gas poisoning while another one died in a landslide in separate mining sites in Tublay and Itogon towns.

MANILA, Philippines – Young math wizards from the Philippines bagged two silver and six bronze medals at the 18th Po Leung Kuk Primary Mathematics World Contest held in Hong Kong last week.

Philippine colleges and universities have to make ‘hard decisions’ whether to increase graduate programs, or develop niches in the undergraduate programs in order to produce the manpower needed in the ASEAN region

Comparison will be inevitable in a post-ASEAN integration era. How are rankings influencing the Philippines’ higher education sector?

An official of the local government of Caluya, Antique on Saturday announced the retrieval and identification of a fifth victim of a mining site accident. The body of Bernie Manrique, 39, was found during retrieval operations at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, Pauline Rose L. Geroche, municipal information officer of Caluya, said. “We now have five (5)…

Authorities extricated on Saturday another body under the rubble of the collapsed mine wall at Semirara coal mine in Caluya, Antique, bringing the total number of fatalities to six, while three others have remained missing, a report from GMA’s “24 Oras” said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine and Japanese governments signed an Action Plan on Industrial Cooperation as part of their commitment to strengthen economic ties.

The Philippines has remained “off” its target to break into the top third of global rankings by 2016, even as the country has been identified as the “most improved” economy in four important global competitiveness indices.

MANILA, Philippines – Manila, the country’s capital, has regained its glory as a prime investment destination after being named as this year’s most competitive city, according to a report by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC).

SEMIRARA INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF ACCIDENT SEMIRARA Mining and Power Corp. is investigating an accident that led to the collapse of its open-pit coal mine Panian in Semirara Island, Antique early Friday.

Construction worker na naguhuan ng lupa sa Brgy Concepcion, Marikina, naiahon na; dinala na sa pagamutan | Joey Rebate, DZMM Correspondent