MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has identified the types of students who could be permitted to enroll in college despite the implementation of the K to 12 program, which will add two years in basic education starting next year.

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects the Philippines to outpace several of its Southeast Asian neighbors in economic growth for this year and the next, according to a supplement to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) for 2015.

Anytime a company goes through a transition there will inevitably be bad days, but the end goal is worth the initial struggle.

THE ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) has maintained growth forecasts for the Philippines this year and next, expecting the country to remain among the fastest-growing markets in the region despite a marked first-quarter slowdown as investments and household consumption — buoyed by election-related spending — continue fueling economic expansion, the regional lender said in a new…

The Provincial Health Office in Aklan has recorded 126 new cases of HIV in the Western Visayas in the first five months of 2015, bringing the total number of cases to 890 in the region since 1984.

HONG KONG – A trafficking victim, who was beaten and forced to work without pay in Hong Kong, will be allowed to challenge in the courts the autonomous region’s failure to pass laws protecting victims of forced labour early next year.

Less than a decade ago, the world economy sank into the Great Recession: the deepest and most widespread downturn since the Great Depression of the 1920s and ’30s. Since the stock market crashed in 2008, recovery has been long and slow, marked by persistent bumps in the road along the way. Nonetheless, an economic recovery…

As of the first quarter of 2015, there are 25 certified aviatrixes operating planes across the Philippines, records from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines show.

There are cracks in the Philippine recruitment industry owing to the desire of some disgruntled agency owners to oust the head of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

PARIS – Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warned Monday.

Growing up in the 80’s, I was already in high school when Rock Hudson died of AIDS. Back then, it was still called AIDS because it was still at its infancy and a lot of misconceptions were believed to be true. It was only later on when I learned that a person does not become…

“More than anything, employees want a workplace that they enjoy coming back to every day.” The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question “How do you keep your best employees?” is by…

Regional leaders in digital marketing gathered at the Singapore Ad:Tech Summit MANILA, Philippines – We’re halfway through 2015 and terms like “Big Data,” “Reach,” and “SEO” are not foreign concepts to most brands and marketers anymore. We are fully in the Digital Era and everyone is already using data and social media to reach out…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said there is no need to remove the suggested retail price (SRP) tag for basic necessities and prime commodities as its absence would only lead to price abuse.

The public has always been familiar with the terms tax dodging, tax avoidance, and tax structuring. However, in today’s international tax parlance, terms have evolved into more creative and catchy phrases. One may have probably encountered the terms “Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich”, more often combined by tax lawyers as “Dutch Sandwiches washed down with…

THE PHILIPPINES may find it difficult to sustain its streak of positive export growth this year due to sluggish global demand and base effects from 2014, an analyst at DBS Bank Ltd. yesterday said.

THE DEPARTMENT of Justice (DoJ) Office for Competition (OFC) has recommended a review of the present Suggested Retail Price (SRP) mechanism, saying that it has removed incentives to compete on price.

FOR YEARS after the 2008 financial crisis, Asia’s rapidly expanding economies propped up global growth, with China clocking a pace of more than 9%, pulling along its neighbors.

Recently, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Management (DSWD) came under attack. Again. More popularly known as 4Ps or Pantawid (Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program), political commentators seized on a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) which stated that close to P19 billion of the 4Ps budget…

Joel Locsin/KBK, GMA News, July 13, 2015 A Filipina maid was beaten up and killed by her Sri Lankan colleague in their employer’s house in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, a UAE news site reported early Monday.

Originally posted on 25 June 2015 Ask anyone to name the most polluted city in the world, and chances are the immediate response will be Beijing. In truth, the Chinese capital is only half as polluted as the city in the top spot – Delhi.

As the chief legal officer at Single Stop I’m typically not involved in the hiring decisions at our organization–except at the most senior level–but I do talk to our human resources department about what we should be looking for in candidates, and what it takes to succeed at Single Stop. We care about many things,…

Pope Francis left for Rome on Sunday at the end of a trip to South America during which he censured capitalism, championed the rights of the poor, warned of irreversible damage to the planet and urged youths to “make a mess”.

The Philippines will be able to export many of its products to the United States duty-free until 2017 under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) scheme.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — Two workers, who were cleaning up the Baguio City Camp Lagoon, were swept away by rampaging floodwaters on Thursday, when monsoon heightened by storms Egay and Falcon dropped moderate to heavy rains in the Cordillera region.

Post-2015 Voices around the world are demanding leadership in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand
 global action, and this year presents unprecedented opportunities for achieving the future we want. This September, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to adopt a new agenda for sustainable development.…

Developing countries face a series of tough challenges in 2015, including the looming prospect of higher borrowing costs in a new era of low prices for oil and other key commodities. This will result in a fourth consecutive year of disappointing economic growth this year, says the World Bank Group’s latest 2015 Global Economic Prospects…

Sam entered the HIV Testing clinic expecting to get an envelope with money. He exited with a letter that read “For confirmatory” in big block letters.

The post-2015 development agenda will require trillions in development resources. 1. The post-2015 development agenda, set to be launched at the United Nations Summit in New York this September, will require trillions in development resources, far surpassing current financial flows. Source: Statement by the Heads of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the…