GENEVA – In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday.

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Poverty a big challenge despite robust economy Poverty remains a serious challenge despite the Philippine economy’s rapid pace of expansion in the past two years. The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported Monday that 25.2 percent of the country’s population lived below the poverty line in 2012, only slightly better than the 26.3 percent in…

(Updated 2:35 p.m.) The Philippines appears to be proof that economic growth alone cannot reduce poverty. Despite stellar growth rates that have bested its Asian neighbors, the Philippines has not significantly lessened poverty in the last six years. If anything, the expansion of the country’s wealth has worsened income inequality.

The Philippines yesterday banned its citizens from taking up new jobs in Yemen, following a militant attack which killed dozens including seven Filipino medical workers. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said in a statement the government was also offering to repatriate an estimated 1,000 other citizens already employed there as medical workers or construction labourers.…

MANILA, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — The lack of jobs and corruption are major factors behind the slow decline in Philippine poverty rate, analysts said Monday.

QUEZON CITY, Dec 9 (PIA) — Government’s emergency employment and cash for work programmes in typhoon ravaged provinces are getting technical and financial support from the International Labour Organization (ILO). Just like in Negros Occidental, Northern Cebu, Leyte and Samar, ILO teams are now working closely with their DOLE counterparts in implementing emergency employment in…

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The Philippines needs to address social inequity and rising youth unemployment to take advantage of the economic growth that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations single market is expected to bring by 2015.

Fast-food workers across the United States launched day-long strikes on Thursday to push for what they called a “surviving” wage. WASHINGTON: Fast-food workers across the United States launched day-long strikes on Thursday to push for what they called a “surviving” wage.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines had the lowest inflow of foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the East Asia and Pacific region last year, a unit of the World Bank said.

MANILA, Philippines – The manufacturing sector could create four million new jobs by 2022 if the government works with investors to revive low-cost labor-intensive industries as well as expand production of high-value goods, foreign and local business groups said.

MANILA – Seven people in Davao Oriental died after fire hit a paint store Thursday night. SFO2 Jessie Duarte, chief of Bureau of Fire Protection – Manay, said fire erupted at the Palomares Paint Store in Barangay Poblacion at around 11 p.m., killing employees Emily Dabaquid, Eileen Andoyo, Jessilie Cabrera, Bernadette Budadong, Jobert Tinggal, Joseph…

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 Dec.) — Three companies in Region 12 have received certifications from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) for fully complying with labor standards and related regulations.

MANILA, 5 December 2013 (IRIN) – The massive destruction of healthcare facilities, with disruption to access and delivery as well as protracted displacement caused by Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) will further undermine precarious maternal health provision in the Philippines, warn experts.

WASHINGTON – Women aren’t very good at reading maps, and men are incapable of multi-tasking. At first glance they might seem like a couple of hoary old stereotypes from the battle of the sexes. But are they?

Magmula noong 1984, umaabot na ngayon sa 15,774 ang kaso ng HIV/AIDS sa bansa. Pero alam niyo ba na kalahati ng nabanggit na bilang ay nanggaling sa isang rehiyon lamang?

DAVAO CITY — Parts of the population, including small farmers, are still generally unaware of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economic integration scheduled for 2015, industry figures said.

MANILA, December 5 (PIA) — Quality of infrastructure in the Philippines is second to the last in the ASEAN region. Senior Research Fellow of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) Dr. Adoracion Navarro disclosed this during the forum “Financing Infrastructure in the Philippines ” held at PIDS.

The number of countries deemed to be an “extreme risk” for human rights abuses has increased by 70 per cent since 2008.

MANILA, Philippines – Eight agents of the environmental protection division of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been deputized to apprehend perpetrators of illegal mining activities that continue despite numerous court orders suspending illicit operations.

Recently, the World Bank undertook an assessment of the unemployment problems plaguing the Philippine economy. This analysis makes comprehensive use of Philippine labor data, notably those produced by the NSO (National Statistics Office). I will use this more recent analysis to explain the unemployment problem as an introduction to next week’s discussion of labor policy…

HOW will the Philippines’s property sector—which has been experiencing growth as of late—fare once Southeast Asian economies merge as one come 2015 when the region formally establishes an Asean Economic Community (AEC)?

ANILA, Philippines – When it comes to the impending ASEAN economic integration in 2015, the Philippines is cramming things it should have done a decade ago because bureaucracy got in the way then, the education chief said.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Labor Organization (ILO) sees slow recovery for the typhoon-devastated city of Tacloban in Leyte, but it said residents still have a better life ahead of them.

MANILA, Philippines – The government has embarked on a massive education and all-out awareness campaign to prevent the spread of AIDS, a Palace official said yesterday as the country joined the observance of World AIDS Day.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 700 barangay officials nationwide, including 89 village chiefs, are already senior citizens aged 71 years and older, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said.

Microsoft may no longer be alone in wanting to see its 12-year-old computer operating system Windows XP go away. At least two major tech companies—chipmaker Intel and device maker Hewlett Packard (HP)—are also preparing for the end of XP, tech site CNET reported.

The Philippines and Malaysia are expected to lead growth in Southeast Asia until 2015, thanks to reforms and projected roll-out of major infrastructure projects, British financial services giant Barclays Plc. said over the weekend.

Data from the Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry showed MANILA, Philippines—Almost 500 new cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which could lead to the fatal acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), were reported in October, according to the Department of Health (DOH).