by Neil Jayson Servallos (The Philippine Star), 6 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has distributed around P46.1 million in subsidy to over 11,000 drivers.
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by Patricia B. Mirasol, BusinessWorld, 5 May 2021 Twenty Filipino companies made it to the 2021 Financial Times ranking of the top 500 high-growth companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Population (PopCom) has reported an increase in maternal deaths in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 Old soldiers never die; they’re just forgotten. Veterans’ pensions were in fact delayed for decades. Other annual budgetary priorities kept overtaking their direly needed retirement benefits. Only in 2019 were those updated, though still with part of 2018 unpaid. And exigencies are again looming to block…
by Elijah Felice Rosales (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines continues to attract potential investors, mostly in business process outsourcing (BPO), as inquiries about office spaces have spiked despite the pandemic.
By DJ Yap, INQ, 5 May 2021 Underage girls from Mindanao, some as young as 14, were being sent to Syria using tampered passports under a scheme hatched by unscrupulous recruiters and immigration officers, a Senate committee learned on Tuesday, as it peeled a new layer in the insidious trafficking of young women to the…
by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Negotiations for the takeover of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines’ shipyard in Subic may be finalized within two months, Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Steven Robinson said in an online briefing.
by Gerardo P. Sicat (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 May 1 or Labor Day leads us to thoughts about the welfare of our country’s working class. It is a fair question to ask how our working class has benefited from seven decades of political independence.
by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 5 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Imposing a carbon tax in the Philippines will significantly help the country and the region address further risks of climate change and will aid in the long-term recovery from the pandemic.
By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 5 May 2021 The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) has asked President Duterte to lift the ban on new economic zones in Metro Manila that had discouraged call center companies from either setting up shop or expanding in the capital.
By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, 5 May 2021 A group of local manufacturers, which repurposed their facilities at the request of the government could now make tens of millions of personal protective equipment (PPE) in a year, but the Duterte administration had bought only a portion of that supply, which forced the group to lay…
by Franco Luna (Philstar.com), 5 May 5, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Transport workers on Thursday slammed the delay in the release of funds under the transportation department’s service contracting program, saying “not even one percent” of the budget set aside for it has been spent.
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by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 4 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has extended over P22 million in loans to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) under a facility that seeks to help them start their own businesses.
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by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), 3 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Businesses all over the globe have become more optimistic as COVID-19 vaccines are rapidly deployed, but many remain cautious with the virus proving to be unpredictable.
by Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star), 3 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) yesterday terminated the search and rescue operations for the seven crewmembers of the LCT Cebu Great Ocean that ran aground during the onslaught of Typhoon Bising in Surigao del Norte last month.
ITUC AP General Secretary Shoya Yoshida stressed a new social contract for inclusive and income-led growth free from tyranny and inequaity for a principled recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. NTUC PHL President Rodolfo M. Capoquian, in his remarks, led solidarity calls (1) for workers killed and injured in workplace accidents, as well as departed trade…
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MANILA – Senior officials of the United States and Philippine governments conducted on April 29, 2021 the final high-level dialogue to mark accomplishments and outline next steps after the conclusion of the four-year US – Philippines Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
