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It may be the single biggest challenge the Aquino administration faces in its drive to reduce poverty: how to create more and better jobs that raise real wages and lift people out of poverty. The Philippines Development Report (PDR), released by the World Bank the other week, estimates that good jobs need to be generated…

LONDON — The global rate of HIV infection and the number of AIDS-related deaths have been dramatically reduced, thanks to expanding access to treatment, the United Nations said in a report issued on Monday.

It is Sunday, and a chorus of Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia greets shoppers at the Lucky Plaza mall along Singapore’s Orchard Road. Hundreds of foreign domestic workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere come here every Sunday to catch up with friends and send money home via the many remittance shops. They make up the…

On the occasion of World Tourism Day (27 September), ILO Senior Tourism Specialist Wolfgang Weinz and ILO Senior Gender Specialist Susan Maybud talk about the role tourism can play in achieving poverty reduction and gender equality.

MANILA, Philippines – Under Philippine law, a woman may be accused of adultery or having sexual relations with a man that is not her husband. Adultery may be substantiated with the presentation of circumstantial evidence. However, under the same law, a man may only be accused of concubinage.

In line with its dedication to continuously uplift the quality of life, Dole Philippines partnered with International Labor Organization in Lakas Sipa Para Sa Batang Malaya, a football clinic for 250 child laborers under the worldwide campaign Red Card to Child Labor.

LONDON – A group of overseas Filipino workers launched a new organization which aims to support the needs of domestic workers in the UK from immigration advice to social networks.

WASHINGTON – At least 15 countries give husbands the power to prevent their wives from working, the World Bank said Tuesday in a report on gender equality in business.

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More accessible treatment options resulted in the decrease of the global rate of HIV infection and AIDS-related deaths, the United Nations reported in its annual update on HIV/AIDS on Monday.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas set fire to heavy equipment owned by a construction firm in separate incidents here over the weekend.

An estimated 200 million more men access the Internet than women worldwide. Network World – Globally, men have a much easier time accessing the Internet than women, according to a new report issued by the United Nations’ Broadband Commission Working Group.

An International Labor Organization (ILO) report on Tuesday said the global count on child laborers has decreased from 246 million to 168 million in the last four years, but singled out Asia Pacific as the region which has the biggest number of minors trapped in forced labor and slavery.

http://www.interaksyon.com/business/71284/infographic–how-can-philippines-create-14-6m-jobs-until-2016 MANILA – The Philippines has recently been one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia but it has yet to provide enough jobs for its citizens.

THE country will further develop the manufacturing and other labor-intensive sectors in an effort to create more job opportunities.

A new ILO report shows that the fight against child labour is on the right track, but the goal of eliminating its worst forms by 2016 will not be met at the current pace. GENEVA (ILO News) – A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Marking progress against child labour, says that the…

“GLOBALISATION” has become the buzzword of the last two decades. The sudden increase in the exchange of knowledge, trade and capital around the world, driven by technological innovation, from the internet to shipping containers, thrust the term into the limelight.

THE Information Technology and Business Processing Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) is urging players in the industry to branch out to the provinces where about 10 percent of the graduates are ready for hiring.

In a clear bid to cut through bureaucratic red tape, the National Competitiveness Council released a comprehensive list of implemented reforms prepared by the inter-agency Task Force on Ease of Doing Business to simplify business regulatory practices for 2013. The reforms were presented earlier today by Department of Trade and Industry Secretary and National Competitiveness…

Sector seen contributing significantly to GDP growth The local business process outsourcing (BPO) sector’s growth is not expected to decelerate despite the slow but steady recovery of developed markets like the United States and Europe.

The coming integration of the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economies in 2015 has been giving sleepless nights to our manufacturers, exporters and other members of the business sector, and to the labor sector who has not yet reached the level of employment which is commensurate to the “winning” growth rates that our economy…

Tatlo katao ang nasugatan sa naganap na pagsabog sa pagawaan ng paputok sa Lapu-lapu City, Cebu nitong Huwebes ng hapon.

Want to sell to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees? Try these: breakfast, booze, and gadgets MANILA, Philippines – Want to sell to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees? Try these: breakfast, booze, and gadgets.