Can China Afford to Continue Its One Child Policy? Sitting in her neighbor’s, house playing cards, 58-year-old farmer Si Jinxin asks a question that is troubling millions of China’s workers: “What are we going to do when we’re old?”
BAGUIO CITY, March 24 (PIA) – – More than half of reported modes of human immunodeficiency virus or HIV transmission in 2014 is through homosexual contact, latest data from the Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry National Epidemiology Center of the Department of Health show. Health authorities, however, are emphasizing that this data is indicative of…
Cybercrime is estimated to cost the global economy upwards of US$400 billion a year, and these costs are expected to continue to rise. At greatest risk is the financial industry as its assets are the easiest to monetise. These globally connected financial institutions have committed huge resources to hardening their information infrastructures that includes personnel,…
The IT industry has the highest paying first salaries for fresh grads, according to Annual Salary Report of Jobstreet Philippines MANILA, Philippines – It’s graduation season, and after the caps fly and the diplomas are filed, it’s time to plunge into the working world with one’s first job. (READ: Fresh grads: Do employers care about…
Filipinos are in favor of legalizing divorce in the country, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed. The SWS poll, taken from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, found that 60 percent of adult Filipinos agreed and only 29 disagreed that “married couples who have already separated and cannot reconcile anymore should be…
MANILA, Philippines – Three Filipino teenagers died during a Malaysian immigration operation in Lahad Datu in Sabah on Saturday.
HONG KONG, CHINA – Developing Asia will maintain its strong economic growth in 2015 and 2016 supported by soft commodity prices and recovery in the major industrial economies, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report. ADB’s flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2015 (ADO), released today, forecasts developing Asia will achieve gross domestic…
MANILA, Philippines–A bill has been filed in the Senate that would give working mothers more time to take care of their newborns—longer than the current 60-day maternity leave with full pay with an option for a 30-day “extension”.
The Official Gazette In the free-trade world, small countries like ours have little economic or geopolitical power. However, the fast-approaching regional economic integration of ASEAN finds the Philippines’ battle against national inequality stalemated by food-price inflation (http://www.philstar.com:8080/opinion/2015/03/16/1433983/inflation-eating-our-lunch). Despite our best efforts, poverty continues to makegains. The inflationary price pressures of food staples that are widely…
It’s graduation time for many schools this week. The Commission on Higher Education reported that 553,706 college students will graduate this school year. Let’s hope the figures don’t pull up the unemployment rate which was 6.6% in the first quarter of 2015 from 6.00% in the fourth quarter of 2014 (according to the National Statistics…
MANILA, Philippines – Prices of basic goods are seen to remain stable even as the government approved a pay hike for minimum wage earners in Metro Manila, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.
SOCIAL Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said so herself. Even the Aquino administration’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program can’t keep up with inflation. Soliman admitted the CCT is not enough to help the poor cope with high food prices.
Can the Philippines compete with its next-door neighbors in the Asean? Property analysts are one in saying yes, but they also admitted of the presence of some major hurdles on the way. Property analyst Enrique M. Soriano III, Ateneo program director for real estate and senior adviser for Wong+Bernstein Business Advisory, said: “No doubt, the…
The Philippines ranked ninth out of 142 countries in terms of gender equality, according to the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2014. As one of the top 10 countries, the Philippines keeps company with high-income Nordic countries, such as Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Perhaps surprisingly, several low-income countries such as…
On Jan. 13, 2015, the Supreme Court, through Justice Leonen, ultimately put to rest the issue over the classification of Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates (PEACe) Bonds as deposit substitutes, subject to taxations.
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance has acknowledged the expanding role of microinsurance in the financial safety net framework, especially for the poor who are most vulnerable to natural catastrophes.
MANILA, Philippines – Prices of basic goods are seen to remain stable even as the government approved a pay hike for minimum wage earners in Metro Manila, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.
/PRNewswire/ — With the latest economic growth rate at 6.1%, second only to China, a growing service sector, and rising foreign investments, the Philippines remains one of the world’s bright spots. (Figure 1) Given the country’s strong economic performance, real estate services agency KMC MAG Group believes that the local real estate market is in…
The Philippines is among the happiest countries in the world based on the results of a global survey ranking countries in terms of positivity, which was released on the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness last Friday.
MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara has called for a review of the country’s migration policies to make them more responsive to the present needs of overseas Filipino workers (OFW).
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas torched construction equipment being used in a government road project in La Paz town, Agusan del Sur Friday.
MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara has called for a review of the country’s migration policies to make them more responsive to the present needs of overseas Filipino workers (OFW).
NIMBYs in the twenty-first century SINCE the publication of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, Thomas Piketty has won many plaudits for his work on inequality. The book has so far sold more than 1.5m copies. Its arguments have been praised by Nobel-prize winners and politicians alike. Last year it won the Financial Times’s business book…
More evidence that breast-feeding babies changes their lives for the better FOUR extra points of IQ, an extra year’s education and a significantly enhanced income at the age of 30. Those are the benefits of having been breast-fed, according a study just published in Lancet Global Health by Bernardo Horta of the Federal University of…
Regional trade deals aren’t as good as global ones but they are still beneficial AFTER years of missed deadlines, the coming months will be decisive for international trade talks. Much hinges on whether Congress gives the president “trade promotion authority” by waiving its right to reopen trade deals that have already been approved by America’s…
by Fiona MacPhail, UNBC, March 21, 2015 The Philippines ranked ninth out of 142 countries in terms of gender equality, according to the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2014. As one of the top 10 countries, the Philippines keeps company with high-income Nordic countries, such as Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.…
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Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz is urging the over 12,000 Filipinos who are illegally staying in Jordan to take advantage of the the 60-day amnesty period approved by the Jordan Ministry of Labor to correct their status.
DOST is planning to roll out its free public WiFi Internet access project across the Philippines beginning this July. It is a good concept, but don’t get your hopes up just yet. Note this is free and is a government project.
(Bloomberg) — Nuchnart Sakvisetchaikul got married four years ago in Bangkok at the age of 33. She has one child and doesn’t want more, an increasingly common trend among a population that is rapidly growing old.