BUKIDNON, Philippines – Four passengers were hurt in an explosion that ripped through a bus in Maramag town on Thursday. Paquito Jivares, 61; Lyn Quadero, 21; Diolola Fostanes, 36; and Daniel Sincero, 45, were seated at the rear of the Rural Transit Bus where the improvised explosive device was planted.

Have you ever heard of managers barking out this cliché? “Don’t just work harder, work smarter!”

A year after Super Typhoon Yolanda battered the country, close to a million people are still living in inadequate shelters and having a hard time finding jobs and livelihood, a humanitarian group said.

MANILA, Philippines – Faced with public frustration over the progress of rebuilding areas ravaged a year ago today by Super Typhoon Yolanda, President Aquino said yesterday the government is doing its best to speed up the process and make sure everything is done right.

At this point, most people are getting a little blasé about the employee benefits and perks that now come out of Silicon Valley companies and the tech industry: free food, free massages, concierge services to do your bidding, bike repairs, hair care, and more. Even traditional employee benefits like health insurance coverage and retirement plans…

“I remember how scared everyone was,” says Marina Delubio, a resident of Barangay 88, one of the biggest suburbs of Tacloban City. “We were clinging to the rafters of our semi-concrete house but it sounded like the fury of the winds and the tsunami-like waves were still going to take us all away. My family…

MANILA – Labor Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz and other labor officials, together with the eco-park’s administration, recently unveiled a marker at the entrance of the Luisita Industrial Park (LIP) which reads: “This is a Labor Law compliant Eco-Zone”.

Inequality is one of the key challenges of our time. Income inequality specifically is one of the most visible aspects of a broader and more complex issue, one that entails inequality of opportunity and extends to gender, ethnicity, disability, and age, among others. Ranking second in last year’s Outlook, it was identified as the most…

Here are more bits and pieces from the report of MTR HK on the condition of our MRT 3. Speed restriction of 45kph was currently imposed for safety reason. The growth of passenger capacity in 2015 will increase train loading as well as increase trend of broken rail failure, if no systematic plan to restore…

If you have been watching the business news channels on cable you couldn’t have missed the excitement over softening international oil prices. The same message was reinforced by energy expert Daniel Yergin, whose well attended lecture at the Makati Shang last Tuesday examined the future of energy.

MANILA, Philippines – Ethanol production in the country remains scarce, leaving oil firms no choice but to import overseas to comply with the government’s E10 requirement for gasoline, according to a study by a United Nations arm.

Overseas Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia may finally benefit from better working conditions provided in a labor pact signed by the Philippines and Saudi Arabia last year, after the Saudi Cabinet gave the agreement its nod this week.

QUEZON CITY, 7 NOV. (PIA)–The Department of Labor & Employment (DOLE) awards workplaces who exemplified the new breed of establishments that are always mindful of the health and safety of their workers.

MANILA – The Philippines is seen to benefit the least from trade and investment cooperation among ASEAN nations, a Korean trade expert said. Park Bun Soon, a professor at Hongik University in Seoul, said the Philippines’ trade with other ASEAN countries accounted for only 19.1 percent of its total trade.

MANILA, Philippines–Despite the healthy growth seen over the past several years, the Philippines’ overall economic performance in the last three decades has remained “poor” compared to other member states of the Asean as it continued to lag behind its neighbors in terms of growth rates, trade relations and investments.

MANILA, Philippines – The solid pace of the country’s economic growth is at risk from the critical energy supply, a global energy expert said in a forum organized by the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – Strong ties between learning institutions, local government units and private companies in developing technical-vocational education and training (TVET) programs is key to providing better employment opportunities for underprivileged youth, according to an official of a leading tech-voc school in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – Barangay officials and health workers are now covered by the Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth) in the P2.606-trillion national budget the House of Representatives approved last week, Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Benitez said yesterday.

SAFETY LAST: The Department of Transportation and Communications appears to be compromising public safety while covering up for the poor maintenance of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT3) running on EDSA.

(Reuters) – Euro zone business growth picked up less than expected in October despite another, deeper round of price cuts, according to surveys that are unlikely to ease simmering tensions among the bloc’s central bankers.

It had been a while since the private owners of MRT 3 commissioned MTR HK to conduct a study on the true state of the system. The study had long been pushed off by DOTC and I suppose they finally agreed to do it only after a series of almost daily accidents happened.

Why a Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) Trade in services drives the exchange of ideas, know-how and technology. It helps firms cut costs, increase productivity, participate in global value chains and boost competitiveness. Consumers benefit from lower prices and greater choice.

PARIS – People who work shifts for 10 years or more may suffer loss of memory and brain power, said a study Tuesday that also warned of safety concerns in high-risk jobs.

Now that the Federal Reserve has brought its program of quantitative easing to a successful conclusion, while the French and German governments have ended their shadow-boxing over European budget “rules,” macroeconomic policy all over the world is entering a period of unusual stability and predictability. Rightly or wrongly, the main advanced economies have reached a…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Philippine embassy in Copenhagen should investigate a report from a Danish labor union that nine out of 10 au pairs complaining of abuse from their host families in Denmark are Filipinas, Vice President Jejomar Binay said yesterday.

Here are three pieces of advice for your job interview: put your best foot forward, make a good first impression, look your interviewer in the eye.

The number of Filipinos who use modern contraception methods rose by about 209,000 in 2013, according to an international progress report on family planning.

A new study reports that nearly half of U.S. moms are their households’ main earners. Breadwinner moms in the United States make up nearly half of households’ major earners or are on par income-wise with their significant others, according to a new study.