MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – In 2014, the Philippines registered an all-time record of $6.2 billion in inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in what economic managers described as a clear indication that the country is well on the road to higher growth this year.

Get together with old classmates, old colleagues, and old friends: The author Letty Lopez with some old college classmates on a fun trip to Vigan. It’s a check list that no one has taken seriously or, worse, has been forgotten:

MANILA, Philippines – Nearly nine out of 10 Filipino consumers do their shopping online, based on a study commissioned by Visa International. The Visa eCommerce Consumer Monitor 2014 also reveals that the top reasons for online shopping are convenience (58 percent), price (47 percent), and deals (46 percent).

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Mercury is a silvery metal in liquid form. It is found in many products such as medical devices, light bulbs, batteries, and dental fillings.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang yesterday joined the world in celebrating the annual International Women’s Day by recognizing the importance of women in nation-building.

FIRST a minimum wage, then a mandatory quota for women on corporate boards—and this just in the first few months of 2015. Germany’s grand-coalition government, which includes the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) as well as the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), has been busily reforming the labour market. Now a…

Around one quarter of foreign domestic workers surveyed have poor mental health: HOME – Less than half are given weekly days off More than 2 out of every 10 foreign domestic workers (24%) who were surveyed in a new research by the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) suffer from poor mental health. This is…

Women, Business and the Law 2014: Removing Restrictions To Enhance Gender Equality finds that while 42 economies reduced legal differences between women and men, 128 out of 143 economies studied still impose legal differences on the basis of gender in at least one of the report’s key indicators. The report also identifies 48 law and…

MANILA, Philippines – When Filipinos are asked to describe their financial status, whether based on income or purchasing power, 3 terms are usually heard: mayaman (rich), may kaya (well-off), and mahirap (poor).

MANILA – The Supreme Court has ordered courts not to be too strict in interpreting the provision on psychological incapacity as a ground for the nullity of marriages.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has taken a liberal stand in allowing the annulment of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity. The SC reversed itself and nullified a marriage of private individuals, saying that a strict implementation of the rules would allow diagnosed sociopaths, schizophrenics, narcissists and the like to stay married.

The Philippines has consistently scored well in global surveys on gender equality but how do these indicators translate to life for women on the ground? MANILA: The Philippines consistently ranks high in global surveys for gender equality, resting in the top 10 above all Asian countries.

There is a saying that it is always darkest before dawn. That is true with what is happening to the Philippines today. It was darkest with the brutal killing of 44 SAF in Mamasapano. But it also promises a bright morning with more Filipinos becoming politically aware. They now know that they have to be…

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The government encourages women in all sectors of the society to take part in leadership and to drive for excellence MANILA, Philippines – “[What] we want is representation. We (women) comprise almost 50% of the country’s population; therefore we should be part of the leadership, the power and decision making.”

The survey, involving domestic workers from the Philippines, Myanmar and Indonesia, is to assess these workers’ mental well-being by getting their views on the living and working conditions in Singapore.

Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening Mar 7th 2015 | From the print edition Timekeeper “IT’S all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,” says Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, a posh English boarding school. “There’s a mentality that it’s…

How big of a problem is violence against women in the Philippines? Why should it concern you? MANILA, Philippines – Violence against women (VAW). The Philippines is no stranger to these 3 words. It is real, it is happening, it is claiming lives.

Power from the People FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, March 2015, Vol. 52, No. 1 Florence Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron The decline in unionization in recent decades has fed the rise in incomes at the top Inequality has risen in many advanced economies since the 1980s, largely because of the concentration of incomes at the top…

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Employees specializing in IT are the highest paid ones, according to the Annual Salary Report 2015 of Jobstreet.com Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Looking for a job or specialization that pays well? The latest report of an online job search site listed the top 10 highest-paying ones that might suit you.

(Bloomberg) — Business activity expanded in each of the euro area’s four largest economies for the first time in almost a year, signaling that a fragile recovery is slowly becoming more sustained.

A total of 1,257 OFW members of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) had received over P800 million in financial aid since the establishment of the agency’s Reintegration Program in 2011.

INFLATION is a disease that can wreck a society, Milton Friedman, the late Nobel laureate economist, once said. Add rising unemployment to the diagnosis, and his profession ascribes a rather non-technical term to the debilitating effect on people: “misery”.

From the forums in Davos to the protests taking place on the streets: inequality is the defining challenge of our time. It hurts economic growth, denies workers their fair share and robs families of their hopes for a better future.