Biliran Geothermal Inc. is investigating a gas leak that downed at least eight workers in its geothermal plant on Biliran Island last Thursday.

Google has taken down a blog that listed ways to harass Singapore’s Filipino population, drawing praise from Internet users appalled by growing racial tensions in the city-state.

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WASHINGTON – A significant number of Filipinos who migrate abroad looking for work are subsequently subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor in Asia, throughout the Middle East and increasingly in Europe, the US State Department said.

Keynote Speech Sharephil Conference On Enhancing Share Value And Protecting Minority Shareholders June 18, 2014 Dusit Hotel, Makati City Her Majesty’s Ambassador Asif Ahman, Peza Director General Lilia De Lima, Sharephil Chairperson Evelyn Singson, Vice Chair Cherry Bernaldo, President Francis Lim, Sharephil Members, Honored Guests – Good Afternoon To All Of You. I’m Glad To…

WASHINGTON–Angered by anti-gay laws condemned here as “vile persecution,” the United States slapped sanctions on Uganda on Thursday, cancelling a military exercise and imposing visa bans on some officials. The legislation that Uganda signed into law in February “runs counter to universal human rights and complicates our bilateral relationship,” the White House said, demanding it…

The Department of Budget and Management on Thursday said it released P4.99 billion to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the implementation of the National Greening Program, which aims to plant 1.5 billion trees across 1.5 million hectares nationwide by 2016.

MANILA, Philippines – Parents of children found engaged in child labor would be subjected to counseling or possibly enrolled as beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) instead of being criminally prosecuted, according to Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman.

POLICE on Thursday refused to release the latest statistics one day after admitting a surge in crime while the Palace turned down calls to fire Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima and Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II for their failure to keep the peace.

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – The government approved today a number of key Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, mainly on infrastructure construction, in a bid to boost the country’s economic development.

Openings specifying a preference for “new” and “recent” college graduates may deter older applicants and run afoul of federal law. Young tech workers fill office parks and corporate cafeterias across Silicon Valley with few if any grey-haired colleagues in sight. It’s a widely accepted reality within the technology industry that youth rules. But at least…

FOR an industry that has come from having almost no economic impact over a decade ago to now employing nearly 700,000 Filipinos, the Philippine call-center business continues to be disparaged and criticized.

MANILA – Consumers in the Philippines are among the most socially conscious shoppers in the world, a recent Nielsen study revealed. The Nielsen Global Survey of Corporate Social Responsibility showed that the Philippines has the most number of consumers who are more willing to pay extra for products and services that come from socially responsible…

From the Department of Social Welfare and Development The Philippine government will launch on June 23 in Ormoc City the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services-National Community-Driven Development (KALAHI CIDSS-NCDDP) that will empower communities in over 800 municipalities nationwide to participate in the planning, budgeting and implementation of community-level projects…

If you are looking to improve your financial situation through entrepreneurship and smart investing, the best way to learn is by looking at the successful individuals who had done it before. And when we say success, we mean success measured by the billions.

MANILA – Three workers of an LPG refilling station were killed and two others were injured in an industrial explosion in Barangay Paing, Bantay, Ilocos Sur.

MANILA, Philippines – Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Farinas said yesterday Congress can approve a bill allowing divorce in the country, but if it becomes a law, the Supreme Court will surely strike it down as unconstitutional.

Manulife’s survey shows more investors still think it is a good time to invest in the Philippines MANILA, Philippines – The investor sentiment in the Philippines slipped in the first quarter of 2014, but remains the highest in the Asian region, alongside Malaysia, according to results from a survey published by Manulife, a Canadian insurance…

MANILA – The Export Development Council (EDC) is looking at a revised export goal of $90 billion for 2016—or 25 percent lower than the original target—to be incorporated in the three-year Philippine Export Development Plan (PEDP) currently being crafted.

Once upon a time, we had a prominently agricultural economy. Some limited industrialization took place in the postwar years, in the form of import-substituting industries fostered by protective trade barriers such as import controls and high import tariffs. But such inward-looking industrial growth has its limits and appeared to have hit the ceiling by the…

MANILA – Business groups warned that the unstable regulatory environment risks stunting the power sector at a time when the economy has been flourishing.

ONE thousand six hundred young Filipinos in Metro Manila, Pampanga, and Cavite are being eyed for the initial implementation of the JobStart Philippines program of the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole).

  LA TRINIDAD, Philippines—The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking into the impact of gardens planted with salad vegetables that have sprouted over the years around the Mount Santo Tomas watershed in Tuba town. Last week, the DENR charged a congressman and three contractors with violations of environmental laws for their alleged…

SINGAPORE – To date, more than 200 companies here have pledged this year to show their cleaners that they matter, up from the 150 who made the commitment last year, the Labour Movement said.

MANILA – Traders, rice cartels and smugglers are easily the best people to blame for the spiking rice prices but a research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) says the Aquino administration’s rice self-sufficiency program and import policy may be the culprit for these recent price increases.

Being fit physically and mentally are essential for one’s overall wellbeing. However, it is inevitable to feel under the weather. Getting sick generally causes emotional and financial concerns. There are times when one puts off going to the doctor or a hospital because of monetary obligations. This could jeopardize one’s health even more.

BO SANCHEZ, lay preacher and bestselling author, recently launched his 38th book titled How To Deal with Difficult People, with this introduction: “Warning: This book will give you so much freedom, you’ll hate me for writing it only now.”

MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines is quickly becoming one of the four “hottest e-commerce markets” in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as the local economy presents a lucrative market for online sales, according to the Hong Kong-headquartered Dezan Shira and Associates.

MANILA, Philippines – More households that depend on remittances from family members working abroad are now saving and investing. This was according to a recent Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) survey, which indicated that in the second quarter of the year, 46.6 percent of remittance-dependent families said they had put a portion of their remittances…

At first glance, the Philippines and India are highly distinct from each other especially from the perspective of geography. The Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia with population of 107.7 million. On the other hand, India is the colossus of South Asia with population of 1.24 billion (July 2014 est. CIA World Factbook). There…