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.

SAN FERNANDO CITY, March 31 (PIA) – People afflicted with Human Immuno Deficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or HIV-AIDS continue to live with stigma, an HIV-Aids advocate said.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has signed a joint congressional resolution raising the daily subsistence allowance for both members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipinos are being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through paid sex. Based on the Department of Health (DOH)’s Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry’s January 2015 report, 91 individuals recently acquired HIV after engaging in “transactional sex.”

MANILA, Philippines – The number of families of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) that allocated funds for savings and investments fell in the first quarter from the previous three months, a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas survey showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The European Union (EU) is pursuing discussions with the Philippines within the year for a possible free trade agreement (FTA) as the country’s ongoing economic reform process shows readiness to commit to an ambitious bilateral deal.

MANILA, Philippines – While the government has declared the port congestion resolved, Japanese businesses remain concerned about the high trucking costs and a possible recurrence of the problem amid the expanding Philippine economy.

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipinos are being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through paid sex. Based on the Department of Health (DOH)’s Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry’s January 2015 report, 91 individuals recently acquired HIV after engaging in “transactional sex.”

MANILA, Philippines – While the government has declared the port congestion resolved, Japanese businesses remain concerned about the high trucking costs and a possible recurrence of the problem amid the expanding Philippine economy.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine economic growth should accelerate this year despite increasing political risks ahead of the 2016 polls, UK-based Barclays said.

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MANILA – KMC MAG group managing director Michael McCullough is bullish about the Philippine property market this year. “There are a lot of reasons for this optimism, chief among them low interest rates, quantitative easing from the central bank, and positive feedback from investors. These factors have helped create a favorable climate for both local…

Even highly-skilled employees in the business process outsourcing sector are seen to benefit from the P15-increase in the daily minimum wage for private sector workers in Metro Manila as employers seek to correct the wage distortion caused by the wage hike.

BAGUIO CITY—The government will spend less if it invests heavily in an HIV/AIDS prevention program, to stave off the spread of the diseases, an official of a UN advocacy group said here recently.

Though Kleiner Perkins won fair and square, Ellen Pao performed a service. When the New York Times runs the verdict in a San Francisco sex discrimination suit as its lead story—above the fact that the Germanwings pilot suspected of deliberately killing 149 passengers concealed mental illness from his employer—you know that a case has struck…

MANILA, Philippines – A lawmaker has asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to explain how it plans to use its proposed P29-billion transition fund for teachers who will be affected by the transition to the K to 12 basic education curriculum.