BAUAN, Batangas – A 29-year-old construction worker died after he was buried alive by sacks of salt in Barangay Balayong here Friday.

According to the latest report by the Department of Health (DOH) last February, 20 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are diagnosed every day. This is almost 50 percent higher from the number of cases reported daily in 2012.

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MANILA, Philippines – The country’s largest business group the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), has formed a foundation to help address the jobs-skills mismatch.

MANILA – The Philippines ranks 64th in the world in terms of social progress, a new report showed.

SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ, Nueva Ecija, Philippines – A construction worker died when the wall of a Catholic church collapsed here on Monday, police said yesterday.

The job interview might be the only thing left between you and the position of your dreams. Even when you’re the most qualified candidate with references galore, a poor interview performance can leave a lousy impression on a potential employer.

The senate has usually been fertile ground for the country’s next crop of executive leaders and several of its 24 members might just be major players in next year’s elections for the presidency and vice presidency.

A 27-year-old construction worker died after he was electrocuted while working in a building in Quezon City Thursday, police said yesterday.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – More and longer blackouts are expected in Mindanao in the coming weeks, an official said yesterday. “The situation is generally back to normal as the system regains stability, but derated capacity from Agus Hydroelectric Power Complex due to low water levels is expected during summer,” said Romeo Montenegro, assistant director of…

Investing in office spaces is seen to become an increasingly attractive proposition for many developers, as the country continues to enjoy a steady influx of companies setting up shop in the Philippines.

The Economist explains ON APRIL 7th Chicagoans went to the polls to select a new mayor; after a hard slog, the incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel beat his challenger Jesús “Chuy” García. Mr García’s upstart campaign targeted Mr Emanuel’s technocratic administration, which, he argued, paid too much attention to the concerns of businesses and the rich.…

MANILA, Philippines – A total of P100 million every year has been earmarked to support qualified college and post-graduate students who can contribute to building up the country’s sugar industry, House Assistant Majority Leader and Cebu Rep. Gerard Anthony Gullas Jr. said over the weekend.

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Filipinos are eating less vegetables, according to a three-decade survey done by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ ultra rich grew in numbers and in terms of wealth last year, according to the Wealth-X and UBS World Ultra Wealth Report 2014.

MANILA, Philippines – The government spent P505 billion last year to pay portion of its debts, 7.9 percent lower than the P559 billion in the same period last year.

Public satisfaction on the administration of President Benigno Aquino III has reached its lowest point so far, the results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.

MANILA, Philippines – Some two million people suffer from various diseases annually due to unsanitary food, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

This is perhaps the most insidious part of our present Constitution – we have a government developed from a system that does not represent the people or recognize the sovereignty of the people. Today, being Easter Sunday, we hope to encourage Filipinos to rise up for a new life and society for the Philippines.

THE PHILIPPINES figured as the “emerging market” most resilient to potential external shocks in a paper authored by an analyst at the Center for Global Development, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit think tank.

The world is awash with free-trade zones and their offshoots. Many are not worth the effort WHEN the first modern free-trade zone was established at Shannon airport in 1959, few outside Ireland paid much attention. Now everyone seems to be an admirer of “special economic zones” (SEZs) that offer a combination of tax-and-tariff incentives, streamlined…

The Philippine economy will be Southeast Asia’s growth leader this year on the back of more aggressive government spending, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Bristol is the ‘green capital’ of Europe, but its predecessor Copenhagen comes top in a Europe-wide index. Curitiba, San Francisco and Singapore all have strong eco-friendly claims too – so what’s the best way to compare cities’ greenness?

According to a UNAIDS report, new incidents of HIV infections around the world halved between the years 2001 and 2011. But in the Philippines, the number of new infections has risen by 25 per cent.

MANILA – The 16,296,231 textbooks that the Department of Education (DepEd) bought for P608.7 million for its school year 2011-2012 textbook replenishment project under the old curriculum have become obsolete because of the shift to the K to 12 program.

The Department of Education (DepEd) does not believe that “one size fits all.” If you read the curriculum guides on its website, as well as the DepEd orders relevant to the curriculum, you will see that the government has taken a lot of pains to allow individual public and private schools to tailor their curriculum…

Professor Nicholas Barr of LSE used to kick off his public economics lectures by illustrating cases of what he facetiously named ‘pub economics’, defined as something that everyone knows to be true, but is not. In his lectures, examples of these misconceptions were the notion that free university education would unequivocally lead to improved access…

MANILA, Philippines – Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo yesterday said he expected the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector to cope well with “reasonable wage increases.”

MANILA, Philippines – Over half a million college graduates are expected to join the labor force at the end of the academic year.