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by Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.com, 17 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Human rights advocates and groups across the globe are pressing the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Human Rights Council to prosecute President Rodrigo Duterte, as they mark August as “a month of killings” for the government.

by Alexis Romero – Philstar.com, 17 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered agencies to ignore the reports of the Commission on Audit and has asked state auditors to stop publishing their initial findings that “condemn” departments and officials and create impressions that they are corrupt.

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By David Tristan Yumol, Kristel Limpot, and Bamba Galang, CNN Philippines, 17 Aug 2021 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 17) — President Rodrigo Duterte blasted the Commission on Audit for its recent audit report on the Department of Health, which uncovered some ₱67.3-billion worth of “deficiencies” in the management of COVID-19 funds.

by Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2021 For years now, environmental activists have been pressuring the finance sector to withhold their banking services on fossil fuel-based power generating projects as a way of slowing down the construction of multi-million dollar projects. Generally, this call had failed; for banks, the opportunity to make big…

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continue to climb, hitting the highest level in six months in June amid further global economic reopening, although at a slower pace than the double-digit growth recorded in April and May, according to the Bangko Sentral ng…

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) said it would be difficult for most businesses, particularly micro enterprises, to advance the 13th month pay of employees amid challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By Maricar Cinco, and Dona Z. Pazzibugan, 17 Aug 2021 Low salary and sheer physical exhaustion from a prolonged pandemic have pushed a big number of nurses to give up and leave hospitals, straining further a health-care system that many feared could soon be on the brink of collapse.

by Cesar V. Campos, 17 Aug 2021 Last July 8, Peter Wallace wrote in his column about nuclear power plants being safe and that there are many countries operating their nuclear power plants safely over the last 50 years: the United States, Germany, Taiwan, Japan. etc.

by Cielito F. Habito, 17 Aug 2021 There was misplaced jubilation over the 11.8 percent second quarter increase in our GDP that the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently announced, as it gave the wrong impression that the Philippine economy is now out of recession. Unfortunately, it is not. As others have already pointed out, including…

By Daxim L. Lucas, 17 Aug 2021 Dollars sent home by expatriate Filipinos continued to rise in June resulting in a similar increase for the first semester of the year, defying the ill economic effects of the raging pandemic around the world, data from the central bank showed.

By Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, 17 Aug 2021 The prolonged pandemic is driving more Filipinos into entrepreneurship to support their households, even those who are still keen on keeping their day jobs.

By DJ Yap, 16 Aug 2021 Whatever happened to the promised subsidies for jeepney and bus drivers? Sen. Nancy Binay on Sunday assailed the Department of Tranportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) for their abysmal implementation of the service contracting program to subsidize public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers whose livelihoods…

By Doris Dumlao-Abadilla, 16 Aug 2021 Despite exiting five straight quarters of economic contraction, the Philippines is not yet out of the woods as rising COVID-19 cases may prompt the government to extend the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila beyond Aug. 20, according to economists.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The government is extending the work-from-home authorization given to information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) firms in ecozones beyond September this year.

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The government should move to include informal workers hard hit by the pandemic in its efforts to recover from the health crisis, a unit of the Asian Development Bank said.

by Danessa Rivera (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines needs to come out with an energy transition plan tailored to its specific requirements as a developing nation and as an economy recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.

by Elijah Felice Rosales (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Finance (DOF) expects the third quarter economic performance to take a hit from the revert to lockdown in select areas.

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By: Julie M. Aurelio, 15 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — “Insufficient internal control measures” in granting aid to workers affected by the pandemic have led to excessive payments, denied claims, and unclaimed cash aid in money remittance centers.

by Solita Collas-Monsod, 14 Aug 2021 Is the 11.8 percent growth of GDP in the second quarter of 2021 an indication that the Duterte administration has managed the COVID-19 situation really well, and has achieved the correct balance between lives and livelihood? Because that’s what Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Chua would have us believe. The…

By Julie M. Aurelio, 14 Aug 2021 The Department of Health (DOH) allegedly failed to pay mandated allowances and other benefits to thousands of health-care workers, including those who had fallen ill with COVID-19 or had died working in the front line during the pandemic, according to a minority lawmaker.In House Resolution No. 2121 she…

By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 14 Aug 2021 The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) objected to a suggestion of the Department of Health (DOH) to impose a five-week lockdown in a bid to drastically reduce the number of active COVID-19 cases.

By Christine O. Avendano, 14 Aug 2021 Among the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the Philippines’ work force fared poorest in 2020, suffering the “largest working-hour losses’’ caused in part by lockdowns imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Robert Siy, 14 Aug 2021 THE Pasig River Expressway, also known as Parex, is a proposed 19.37-kilometer six-lane elevated expressway running the length of the Pasig River with an estimated cost of P81.5 billion. The project proponent is the San Miguel Corp. It is still under evaluation by the Tollways Regulatory Board. Here are…

by Robertzon Ramirez (The Philippine Star), 14 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Four nuns from a Carmelite convent in La Paz District in Iloilo City have died of COVID-19.