From the Department of Social Welfare and Development Sec. Soliman announces during this morning’s briefing that more than 300,000 children of Pantawid Pamilya will graduate from high school this March.

AN OFFICIAL of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said Thursday the Philippines is already facing a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) “epidemic” given the “fast and furious” spread of the disease.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is appealing for more funds to reform the judiciary, stating that the budget appropriated to the Justice department is inadequate. This pronouncement came after she refused to comment on the President’s remark that the judiciary was guilty of too much meddling of political issues.

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 41,728 classrooms will be repaired or constructed across the country this year as part of the government’s preparation for the full implementation of the K to 12 program, according to the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines – Over half a million minimum wage workers in Metro Manila will benefit from the newly approved P15 wage increase, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the other day.

MANILA – The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) indicated on Thursday that, statistically, as many as 12,500 Filipinos believed infected with the disease are not yet included in the records of the Department of Health (DOH).

People breastfed as infants have higher intelligence scores in adulthood, and higher … People breastfed as infants have higher intelligence scores in adulthood, and higher earnings, according to a study published Wednesday that tracked the development of 3,500 newborns over 30 years.

Experts say even the ASEAN integration should take the route of inclusive growth, or else it will do more damage than good MANILA, Philippines – Unless the ASEAN economic integration takes the road of inclusive growth, the vulnerable sectors of society will be left behind.

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A press release from the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on the minimum wage last Monday brought me back to a vigorous debate among my economist friends in the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF). The debate was so heated that fraternity brothers were accusing each other of being less than academically adequate even…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday announced the approval of a P15-wage hike in Metro Manila, Radyo Inquirer 990AM said.

Will the ASEAN integration and its promise of better opportunities keep highly-skilled Filipinos from leaving the Philippines? MANILA, Philippines – When it comes to the ASEAN economic integration, it is said the Philippines has competitive advantage in its highly-skilled workers “capable of working in every corner of the world.”

THE SOCIAL Weather Station survey citing that 4-million Pinoys are crime victims in 2014 alone sounds realistic. And this statistic could be lower or higher depending on the incidents being reported by different police units in the countryside.

Horrible bosses come in all shapes and sizes. You can probably think of a few previous bosses you’ve had the (dis)pleasure to work for. According to a recent poll of 2,700 respondents at Monster.com, more than one in three consider their boss to be “horrible” (38 percent) and 54 percent of respondents gave their boss…

To discourage the abuse of household helpers in Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s labor ministry is cooking up a shame campaign that places abusive employers and recruitment offices in a black list.

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, March 17 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now crafting a joint department order that would set rules and regulations on employment and working conditions of fishers employed in vessels engaged in commercial fishing.

OUR country is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We have enough laws against child labor. And yet the worst forms of child labor can still be found in many parts of the country today, according to a recent European Commission-funded study.

To solve important problems, we need diversity in the organization, said our global chairman. Talking about gender diversity, it was a source of laughter among my colleagues when I said that in the Philippines, the gender diversity issue is the other way around: the male species is emasculated by the females in the profession, and…

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, the largest group of labor federations in partnership Bayanko, a non-partisan crowdsourcing movement is for a complete overhaul of politics and government in the country.

I believe the time is right.. Who would have thought that I will now be a graduate of BSED Mathematics? My batch mates graduated from college 6 years ago. It took me 11 years to finally finish college. I actually thought I would never see myself wearing a TOGA again. My parents can send me…

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THE LARGEST Philippine pension fund wants to increase the amount it can invest in stocks as returns from bonds shrink.

Statement of Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Baldoz On the results of the January 2015 Labor Force Survey [Released on March 12, 2015] The results of the January 2015 Labor Force Survey of the Philippine Statistics Authority encourage us greatly at the Department of Labor and Employment to continue to strengthen our various employment…

THE LARGEST Philippine pension fund wants to increase the amount it can invest in stocks as returns from bonds shrink.

My comments last week on the country’s high growth performance emphasized the role of luck and the importance of international perception on economic prospects. Good perception creates a positive outlook.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang said yesterday efforts to decongest the ports were progressing and that importers and forwarders were now being urged to reduce trucking rates back to where they were prior to the congestion.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine stocks faltered yesterday as earlier fears about a sooner-than-expected US interest rate hike resurfaced.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance is strongly urging Congress to immediately pass the Tax Incentives Management and Transparency Act (TIMTA) to bring Philippine fiscal policy into the 21st century and attract more companies to do business.

MANILA – Some 39,000 teachers and 14,000 non-teaching acedemic personnel will lose their jobs over a span of five years in the “worst case scenario” as the Department of Education fully implements the K to 12 education program, DepEd Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines–Long-term foreign investments in the Philippines rose last year to its highest level in history as the country reaped the benefits of its recent turnaround into one of the region’s growth leaders.