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).

MANILA, Philippines – Some 18,016 displaced people or 4,352 families in Haiyan-hit islands Samar and Leyte flocked to Manila on board the government’s C-130 flights from November 16 to 29, Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a radio interview on Sunday, December 1.

MANILA, Philippines – As World AIDS Day is marked today, the Department of Health (DOH) has reported close to 500 new HIV/AIDS cases last October, the highest ever recorded in a month in the country.

TACLOBAN CITY – Tens of thousands of desperately needed jobs are being created for survivors of a catastrophic typhoon in the Philippines by paying them to clear mountains of waste from ruined cities and farms.

Senior diplomats from South Asian missions in the Kingdom have welcomed plans to set up separate courts to settle labor disputes. These courts will operate under the Ministry of Justice, said Hattab Al-Anazi, spokesperson for Labor Ministry.

Story 10: #WHIPIT: CAN WOMEN HAVE IT ALL? Have you ever felt boxed in “because you’re a woman?” Female trailblazers from different fields discuss the results of a survey on women at #WHIPIT, a forum on gender bias hosted by Rappler and Pantene. The survey was done in the National Capital Region or NCR, with…

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to proclaim Abang Lingkod as among the winning party-list groups in the May 2013 elections.

Two labor recruitment agencies will help at least 500 victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) find work abroad free of charge, the Department of Labor and Employment on Thursday said.

MANILA, Philippines – Most of the workers affected by typhoon “Yolanda” in the Visayas are from the service sector, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Thursday.

Household appliance maker Fagor has recently entered bankruptcy, but its workers are not ready to give up their jobs. FORTUNE — In the town of Basauri, amid the rolling hills of Spain’s Basque Country, some 140 workers at the Edesa appliance factory are taking four-hour shifts as they stage a lock-in. Their parent company, the…

Super typhoon Yolanda is an opportunity for Tacloban and the rest of the Visayas to reboot in a sustainable and democratic way, and perhaps even become a model of development. But the rebuilding process must be re-thought. The old ways will not survive future calamities, especially with global warming and its stronger, more frequent storms.

Japan has allotted $500,000 to help victims who lost jobs because of typhoon Yolanda that devastated the Eastern and Central Visayas.

PRESIDENT Aquino, after a marathon meeting with his Cabinet on Wednesday, approved in principle a three-stage recovery plan for several provinces devastated by Supertyphoon Yolanda (international code name Haiyan).

GENEVA—The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade, the UN’s health agency said Monday, blaming gaps in care programmes.

A helper at a warehouse in Valenzuela City was killed while he was on duty on Sunday. The Valenzuela police identified the victim as Alberto Cruz, 33, a helper at the Urrulia Trading Warehouse in Sitio (settlement) Malabo, Barangay (village) Maysan.

MANILA, Philippines – Over 20,000 workers nationwide lost their jobs due to closures of commercial establishments, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported.

New York – Every year, at least two million women and girls are trafficked into prostitution, forced slavery, and servitude. Up to 60 percent of women experience some form of physical or sexual abuse during their lifetime.

MANILA, Philippines – Eleven years ago, member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including the Philippines, envisioned an ASEAN University born from strong linkages of leading universities and institutions in the region.

MANILA, Philippines – The International Labor Organization (ILO) is helping government provide emergency employment to millions of people who lost their livelihoods to Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). (READ: Coconut farmers face ruin after Haiyan)

Microsoft has decided to dump the practice of rating individuals’ performance on a numerical scale – a decision I applauded in a recent post. I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. At best, they serve other goals: allocating compensation…

Child laborers have returned to their places of employment weeks after Typhoon Yolanda cut through Central Philippines on November 8, “Balitanghali” reported on Saturday.

MANILA, Philippines – Online recruitment company JobStreet.com said accountants are the most in-demand specialists for the fourth quarter of 2013.