MANILA, Philippines – A watershed rehabilitation project of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Visayas and Mindanao will provide livelihood for some 350,000 families.

MANILA, Philippines – The United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN Habitat) has chosen Cagayan de Oro as one of nine “emerging cities of tomorrow,” Rep. Rufus Rodriguez announced yesterday.

Former Senator Ernesto Herrera (L), president of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and Tony Ton Wong (R), president of UMICORE Specialty Chemicals Subic, Inc. display the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the company and the UMICORE Employees Labor Association (EULA-AMAPO-TUCP) recently signed at Blue Rock Resort, Barretto, Olongapo City as Roberto Flores,…

MANILA, Philippines – Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has ordered all regional directors of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to report work-related accidents in their jurisdiction within 24 hours.

WITH the carbon credit market down, the Philippine Ozone Desk of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’s Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) is faced with the challenge of disposing waste from ozone-depleting substances (ODS) across the country.

NOMURA, a leading financial services group, said the Philippines is poised to be the strongest-performing Southeast Asian economy, expecting gross domestic product (GDP) growth to accelerate to 6.8 percent next year, from 6.7 percent this year.

WHAT do Nelson Mandela, Teddy Roosevelt and Golda Meir have in common? They all possessed the essential traits of great leadership. “Leadership is one of the most complex undertakings anyone will face,” says Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st Century Leaders (Agate). “If we take the easy way out,…

THE League of Filipino Students (LFS) has condemned the Aquino administration for its position on tuition increases, saying its suggestion for students to enroll in state colleges and universities (SUCs) would not solve the problem.

NEW YORK (AP) — Labor organizers turned up the pressure on McDonald’s and other fast-food chains to raise worker pay on Thursday, with plans to stage actions in more than 30 countries. The demonstrations build on a campaign by unions to bring attention to the plight of low-wage workers and get the public behind the…

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines may lose an even bigger chunk of its skilled labor force to neighbors in Association of Southeast Asian Nations, where workers get paid better when the region’s economic integration goes on full swing at end-2015, according to the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop).

Andaya got biggest kickback amounting to P255M Fifth of a series MANILA, Philippines—Cabinet secretaries in the Arroyo administration and officials of state-owned corporations—some of them still holding the same positions to this day—received a total of P820 million in commissions in schemes to siphon congressional pork barrel funds to ghost projects engineered by Janet Lim-Napoles, computer…

It is but only a month from now on June 18, and the Social Security System shows no intention of commemorating that day 60 years ago when President Ramon Magsaysay signed into law Republic Act 1161 or the Social Security Law of 1954 —“An Act To Create A Social Security System Providing Sickness, Unemployment Retirement,…

Keeps them in Cabinet till evidence show guilt PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III said members of his Cabinet who are being dragged into the pork barrel scandal are innocent until proven guilty, and will remain at their posts until there is sufficient evidence to charge them in court.

Addressing Asia’s gender gap challenge Students line up to receive their degree certificates at the Kede College of Capital Normal University, Beijing. China has seen a turnaround in the status of women since the 1950s, with female literacy today at around 100 percent. (AFP) Throughout much of Asia, especially the developing nations, women can be…

Employers have reiterated the need to update the country’s Labor Code with a resolution approved at the close of its annual conference on Friday.

HANOI — Anti-China demonstrators set more than a dozen factories on fire in Vietnam, state media said yesterday, in an escalating backlash against Beijing’s deployment of an oil rig in contested waters.

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From the Department of Labor and Employment Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz has issued Department Advisory No. 01, Series of 2014, or the Occupational Safety and Health Protection Tips for Kasambahay and Employers, to protect both kasambahay and other household members from domestic work hazards.

Before starting Grade 11, students should already know what they intend to do for the next few years, if not for the rest of their lives. That situation is the same as it is today. Fourth year high school students today, sometime before they graduate from high school, apply for entrance into tertiary institutions and…

From the Department of Health Several HIV interest groups recently criticized the DOH for its plans to implement “mandatory” HIV testing while citing provisions in the 1998 AIDS law that does not allow “compulsory” testing.

MANILA, Philippines — A network of civil society groups involved in anti-AIDS advocacy work is threatening to sue the Department of Health if it pushes through with plans to implement mandatory HIV testing.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines— Health officials said Northern Mindanao is now a hot spot for Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS) after 30 new cases were recorded in the first quarter of the year alone.

Because of ‘incorrigibly uncooperative’ cluster heads? Not necessarily, the rehabilitation chief’s office says MANILA, Philippines – Despite Rehabilitation Secretary Panfilo Lacson’s warning against “incorrigibly uncooperative” colleagues, two Cabinet clusters continue to stall rehabilitation efforts after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).

The automotive parts and electronics sectors in the Philippines might see a receptive market in the European Free-Trade Association (Efta) countries should the country pursue a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the European bloc, Trade Secretary Gregory L. Domingo said on Monday.

SIX months after Supertyphoon Yolanda hit the Central Visayas, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) admitted that a big part of the budget allotted to victims and survivors has not yet been released.

The University of the Philippines remained the best in the country, based on the 2014 QS University Rankings for Asia. The annual list, which highlights the top 300 universities in Asia, had UP at 63, four places up from 2013.