AFTER two weeks of negotiations, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) released an outcome document that pushes forward even more strongly the rights of women and girls. The document also promises to put women and girls front and center in the next global development agenda, after the world finishes appraising the success…

PARIS – The Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Ethiopia are among 10 countries set to take over as emerging economies from the powerful BRICS nations as they struggle with growing pains, a French credit body said on Tuesday.

Philippine-based businesses have reiterated support for Reproductive Health (RH) Law, urging the government to implement the measure at the soonest possible time, because responsible parenthood is a pillar of that elusive, inclusive growth the administration of President Benigno Aquino III has been aiming for since its took over the helm of government.

MANILA – The Commission on Higher Education is advising against a change in the academic calendar, saying the country’s weather patterns do not justify a shift in the start of classes from June to August.

MANILA – Like its boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, who was shockingly knocked out by an opponent but found redemption in his next fight, the Philippines should bounce back in 2014 after a deadly blow by typhoon “Yolanda” last year.

MANILA – The Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) on Tuesday pushed for the amendment of Republic Act 8504 or the National AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998, saying that it is already outdated.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance (DOF) on Wednesday said the government lost at least 1.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2011 due to revenue loss from granting income tax holidays, reduced income tax rates and duty to investments.

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LONDON (AP) — Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday.

In the next few weeks, more than half a million more Filipinos will be looking for jobs that will hopefully pay back for their years of sweat of having to go through school and for their parents’ hard-earned money spent on tuition fees and living expenses.

Exactly a week ago we wrote a column entitled “What’s the strength of the NPA these days?” We asked that question because of the bold attacks by the NPA in so many places in Mindanao where the NPA already number from 100 to 200 fully armed rebels. What gets our gall is that, the NPA…

University of the Philippines (UP) Professor Benjamin Diokno has submitted a study that the Philippines will be the least attractive investment destination in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) once it formally integrates as an emerging bloc in 2015.

MANILA, Philippines – Four large business organizations on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for the immediate implementation of the controversial Reproductive Health Law, saying that the statute has already passed both Houses of Congress and deemed Constitutional.

KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya—On any day about a year and a half ago, Marina Bartolome, 30, would be tending her three children, ages 6 to 10, while her husband operated a bulldozer at the gold project of OceanaGold Corp. in the mining community of Didipio here.

MANILA, Philippines—Two Filipino women are among the 25 “most influential” women in Asia-Pacific’s asset management scene, based on a list drawn up by financial publication AsianInvestor Magazine.

GENEVA, Switzerland – There has been no reverse in the trend of global warming and there is still consistent evidence for man-made climate change, the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday.

Ikinababahala ng Baguio City Health Office ang pagdami ng mga tinatawag na “freelance” sex workers sa lungsod. Hindi umano namomonitor ang kilos at kalusugan ng mga ito na maaaring maging dahilan ng paglaganap ng sexually transmitted disease o STD.

Earlier this month, the Pantheon project website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab went live. Pantheon, or at least its first version, is an impressive but necessarily incomplete attempt to measure “the global popularity of historical characters” (this and other project-descriptive quotes are from the Methods section of the website). It uses two…

organization, made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year with its report that the world’s 85 richest people own assets with the same value as those owned by the poorer half of the world’s population, or 3.5 billion people (including children). Both groups have $US 1.7 trillion. That’s $20 billion on…

According to a World Health Organization report released today, around 1 in 8 of total global deaths – 7 million deaths annually – are as a result of exposure to air pollution.

SINGAPORE – They gathered in pretty much the same fashion that those flash mobs would when readying to break into a sing-and-dance number in a public place.

A Philippine team led by Paul Agabin, founder and CEO of the outsourcing firm Essays.ph, recently won US$5,000 for placing second in the 2014 Internet Scavenging Hunt, a worldwide contest that drew 45,000 registrants.

LONDON – The harrowing stories of abused Filipino domestic workers came to light at a recent conference in London, where Filipino activists led a discussion on vulnerable women in Britain and the controversial debate on UK immigration policies.

A study in the Philippines has found the number of teenage girls who have become pregnant across the nation has more than doubled in ten years. Young people in the Philippines have limited access to sex education and sexual health services, especially if they are underage and unmarried. (Credit: AFP)

(Reuters) – Southeast Asia is unlikely to hit a target of integrating its 10 economies by 2015, but the group has much potential to be a trading hub for Asia once it fully creates an economic community, the Philippines’ finance chief said on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The economic integration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will likely not be attained by 2015, economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.

Globally, an estimated 500 million people have microinsurance, up from 78 million in 2008. Craig Churchill, head of the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility, discusses the growing value and viability of this insurance mechanism aimed at low-income people.

We can never stress it enough. Tens of thousands of families lost everything when history’s fiercest Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda struck the Visayas last Nov. Among the worst displaced were schoolchildren, traumatized by the loss of kin, playmates, and school provisions.

During these times when the issue on the validity of the RH law is already submitted for resolution in the Supreme Court (SC), using media in hurrying up and pressuring the SC Justices to rule in favor of its validity is a direct assault on their independence, integrity and even competency. It is an arrogant…

BUSINESSMEN expect the economy to sustain last year’s growth on the back of higher investments, exports, and imports, the Makati Business Club (MBC) yesterday said.