MANILA – If you love math, data, and crunching numbers, a P35,000-plus monthly salary awaits you. The amount is the median monthly salary that statisticians get in the Philippines, according to Jose Ramon Albert, secretary general of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

Some roads in Metro Manila “may appear okay on the surface, but underneath they have actually deteriorated because of old age.” The Department of Public Works and Highways pointed this out Wednesday to dispute allegations of irregularities in the agency’s road “reblocking” projects in the metropolis.

A TOTAL of 1,257 institutions of learning—903 private elementary and high schools and 354 private colleges and universities—have been allowed to raise their tuition and other fees this year.

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed 38 winning partylist groups Tuesday, leaving only five seats left for the others to fight over.

Poll chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said on Monday that the Commission on Elections en banc has disqualified, with finality, six more party-list groups. The disqualified groups were Agapay ng Indigenous Peoples Rights Alliance, Inc. (A-IPRA); Ang Galing Pinoy (AG); Atong Paglaum, Inc. (Atong Paglaum); Kaagapay ng Nagkakaisang Agilang Pilipinong Magsasaka (KAP); Social Movement for Active…

MANILA, Philippines–TV5 network operator Associated Broadcasting Corp. has offered a generous early retirement package to employees as the Manuel V. Pangilinan (MVP)-led firm affirmed commitment to curb financial hemorrhage and challenge a long-entrenched Philippine broadcasting duopoly.

Naybahay, a rural birthing facility project spearheaded by Pfizer Philippines Foundation Inc., was one among 20 corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects recognized with an award of merit at the 5th Global CSR Summit hosted by the Philippines in Davao City last April.

Holding firm Ayala Corp. has overtaken erstwhile leader San Miguel Corp. in the executive compensation race for 2012. Ayala chief executive Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, his younger brother and president Fernando Zobel, and fellow management committee members John Eric Francia, Delfin Gonzalez Jr., Solomon Hermosura and John Philip Orbeta took home P398 million in…

In the euro zone, desperately in need of a boost, no news is bad news YOU may have missed it, but the European Union held a summit this week. Taking in a nutritious working lunch, Europe’s prime ministers, presidents and chancellors devoted half of Wednesday to weighty issues of energy and taxation. Gone are the…

THE Department of Health (DOH) and other agencies held a random human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surveillance to determine the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/Aids) cases in Cagayan de Oro City.

MANILA, Philippines – It was a costly and a messy exercise that could have been avoided in the first place. And with the snafu that littered the conduct of the 2013 midterm polls, poll chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr has only himself to blame.

IT experts note strange ‘60-30-10’ pattern Information technology (IT) experts have observed a strange “pattern” of votes obtained by administration, opposition and independent senatorial candidates in the May 13 elections.

JOB GENERATION is crucial to an economy’s continued strength so the government should do more to attract investors, the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECoP) said. The ECoP, which today holds its annual National Conference of Employers (NCE), is looking to come up with a set of resolutions that will be presented to the Aquino…

PROPERTY MARKET growth in the Philippines has so far been healthy, Moody’s Investors Service said, with no reason to believe a bubble is forming.

Despite the weak growth in the remittance sector, the country’s strong domestic market pushed the Philippine economy to maintain a steady progress in the first three months of this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.

The Philippine economy may have grown 6 percent in the first quarter, riding on consumer and government spending that offset poor export performance, a ranking International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines— The New People’s Army were able to extort as much as P26 million nationwide during the election period, the military claimed.

(Updated 6:34 p.m.) The Commision on Elections (Comelec), sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, will proclaim leading party-list groups without announcing the number of seats they obtained.

MANILA, Philippines – With the country rating low in global surveys on competitiveness and ease in doing business, President Aquino has created an inter-agency task force to address the problems.

BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte, Philippines – Private sector workers in the two Agusan and Surigao provinces and their component cities got a post-election gift in the form of the P10-minimum wage increase that the Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Caraga region has approved.

(Last of two parts) MANILA, Philippines – There’s a wide-array of reasons for the Mindanao crisis. As expected, President Benigno Aquino blames his predecessor for the problem.

MANILA, Philippines — Only 806 Filipino nurses sought jobs in the United States from January to March this year, LPG-MA party list Representative Arnel Ty said.

Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses.

MANILA, Philippines – There seems to be a link between the rising number of smartphone users in the country and the spike in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the Philippines, a Department of Health (DOH) official said.

CASES of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV-Aids) in Cagayan de Oro have reached an alarming level, making the city a “hotspot.”

With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist, explains why jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.

Change is in sight for the region home to over 90 percent of people without water security, as the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit ends on Monday with a pledge for tighter regional ties and a $20 billion solution proposed by the Asian Development Bank.

MANILA, Philippines – Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla said he is losing his hair because of the Mindanao crisis. As he said this, in a recent meeting with Mindanao-based electric cooperatives, Petilla drew laughter from the crowd.

JEDDAH — Filipino household service workers (HSWs) in Saudi Arabia can now enjoy more rights and better protection after the signing of a “historic” agreement between the Kingdom and the Philippines in Jeddah on Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines continued to lag behind its peers in the Southeast Asian region in terms of motor vehicle production as it saw the number of assembled vehicles in the first quarter decline year-on-year.