What health issues are most important for women? While many women worry about breast cancer, heart disease presents a greater danger. Moreover, adequate stress management, a healthy heart and cardiovascular system plays a role in well health in many other conditions. In celebration of National Women’s Health Week, we’re taking a look at the top…

KUALA LUMPUR: A mobile application to equip domestic workers with crucial knowledge about taking care of the elderly will soon be made available here. The Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies said the paid service, called Medically Informed Minders (MiM), would be launched in Malaysia in September after a pilot test is conducted in 100…

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MANILA, Philippines — Fresh out of college and seeking for a job? Online jobs portal Jobstreet.com Philippines Inc. pooled job postings and ranked the best paying entry-level jobs for those who just graduated from college:

Jobstreet.com Philippines said quality control senior managers’ salaries are the highest, based on salaries from job listings. Quality control senior managers get around P253,000 a month on average, according to the online jobs portal.

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ILO Director-General and UNAIDS Executive Director launch new programme on voluntary and confidential HIV counselling and testing to reach 5 million workers world-wide.

MANILA, Philippines – The outgoing Congress had approved more than 100 key pieces of legislation, mostly on promoting human rights as well as strengthening the economy and the campaign against crime and corruption, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said yesterday.

Major players in the information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) are confident of delivering the $25-billion promised revenues and employment for 1.3 million workers by 2016.

MANILA, Philippines – With the investment-grade credit rating from Fitch Ratings in March, an improved international business reputation, and sound fiscal management, the Philippines is poised to become the next foreign direct investment (FDI) destination of Asia.

Batangas, Philippines – Three construction workers were killed while two others were wounded in a landslide at the boundary of Laurel, Batangas and Alfonso, Cavite yesterday afternoon, police said.

Memorandum Circular No. 48, s. 2013 MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 48 DIRECTING ALL CONCERNED GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO ADOPT THE GENDER EQUALITY GUIDELINES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE MEDIA POLICIES AND IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS IN ORDER TO PROMOTE GENDER MAINSTREAMING WHEREAS, Section 14, Article II of the 1987 Constitution provides that the State recognizes…

GENEVA – Inequality is on the rise in most advanced economies, the International Labor Organization lamented Monday, decrying surging executive compensation and large companies hording profits rather than investing.

Having attended several international conferences on women, I expected the Women Deliver 2013 global summit held in Kuala Lumpur last week to pass resolutions to accelerate the movement to reach the Millennium Development Goal 5 (targeted at 2015), and presenting them to the world’s governments for implementation. No such thing occurred. Women Deliver founder and…

Now it’s official: the Philippines is the fastest-growing economy in Asia. Beating China’s first quarter growth (7.7 percent) by a hair, our 7.8-percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) was proudly homegrown, achieved in the face of a hefty drop (-7 percent) in exports. This implies that domestic demand for our economy’s goods and services…

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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines remains Southeast Asia’s laggard in terms of motor vehicle and motorcycle production, according to latest data from the ASEAN Automotive Federation (AAF).

Good news for parents who need steady income to put their children through school: more than 130,000 jobs are up for grabs in the Philippines this June, the Department of Labor and Employment said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – A crewing manager of the second largest manning agency in the country is under investigation for allegedly sexually harassing a female executive, a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agent said yesterday.

The fishing sector is an important source of employment, income and food production for many countries. But there are serious incidents of abuse in some fisheries and fishing vessels. By Beate Andrees, head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour.

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – New cases of HIV infections in the Philippines was highest in April at 388, the Department of Health (DOH) said today.

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For a range of reasons — from having infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B or C, or even just having abnormal x-ray results — at least 142 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were deported from the Middle East since last year, a Saudi-based medical association reported.

Jobs Where Women Earn More Even with more women settling into the role of family breadwinner, the gender pay gap only rarely settles in their favor.

MANILA – After dropping two steps last year, the Philippines now has climbed five notches in IMD’s 2013 World Competitiveness ranking.

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KUALA LUMPUR – Global experts on Tuesday urged governments and the global community to invest in girls and women’s programs, including reproductive health, as this leads to major economic returns and other benefits.

MANILA – The Philippines’ faster economic growth and the gains in the stock market cannot be sustained, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

The Philippines is growing at a faster pace among the five biggest economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation or ASEAN-5, supported by robust government spending and increased business confidence, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).