Over the past several years, the country bore witness to how “going green” has shaped and revolutionized the way buildings are structured and how companies conduct their businesses to adopt a triple bottom-line approach.

AFTER seeing the highest number of cases reported in a month since 1984, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said Sunday that it does not automatically mean that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the country are already alarming.

Whoever said genies aren’t real? While they are no longer live in traditional magic lampts, they’ve moved to a smaller and more powerful house: the credit card. One swipe (you need to rub!) and you’ll get what you want. And unlike the old genies, the credit card will not ask you to trade your soul…

CONSUMERS should start saving more money for their coming electricity bills. The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) both have pending petitions before the Energy Regulation Commission (ERC) to increase their power rates.

WHEN electricity from power plants is transmitted through the cables and wires to reach factories, offices and homes, some of it is lost. It is called system loss. The cost of this technical loss is being charged to consumers. This dissipated electricity disappears. It does not reach the consumer. But he or she is billed…

IN 2001, Congress passed a law intending to lower electricity rates. Today, there are pending proposals at the House of Representatives aimed at reviewing or repealing it. Why? Because that law has increased consumers’ electricity bills and made Philippine power rates the highest in Asia.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of banks taken over by state-run Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) went up 29 percent in the first eight months of the year as more problematic banks were ordered closed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

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WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Philippine Overseas Workers Welfare Administration recently announced that it is now accepting applications from dependents of overseas Filipino workers for its college scholarship program. The scholarship program, called Education for Development Scholarship Program, is open to all high school graduating students in the Philippines who are children or dependents of active OWWA members.

MANILA, Philippines—From a war of words to a battle of figures. The ongoing Senate debates on the reproductive health bill have shifted to a key question —how many mothers actually die in the Philippines every day?

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) believes that strong domestic demand would give the Philippines enough internal buffer to survive the impact of the recent downgrade of the triple A credit rating of the US by Standard & Poor’s as well as the ongoing debt concerns in Europe.

The confusion is getting worse. There are now three RH bills: the Lagman bill in the Lower House, the Santiago bill in the Upper House and the bill coming from Malacanang called Responsible Parenthood bill which is included among the list of priority bills sent to the Lower House for approval. The stakes must really…

WHILE the 2012 allocation for the Department of Education was increased by P31.5 billion, the proposed P1.816-trillion budget for the year earmarked zero budget for the capital outlay of state universities and colleges (SUCs), a lawmaker said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday reported 204 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the country. In its Philippine HIV and AIDS Registry, the DOH said the new cases were registered in July, bringing to 1,220 the total number of HIV cases this year. Of the number, 27 cases have progressed into AIDS.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment has brought to the International Labor Organization its complaint against the Greek owners of a ship for abandonment of 12 Filipino seafarers in Spain.

SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela, August 26 (PIA) — Despite the various regional summits on the controversial Reproductive Health Bill or HB 4244 spearheaded by the Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development in the country, its passage still depends on various factors within the halls of Congress in the next few months.

CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines — To reinforce its campaign on the passage of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill in line with the goal of having it passed before this year ends, an official from the Region 7 office of the Population Commission (PopCom) stressed that one of the best ways to advance their advocacy…

MANILA, Philippines — Mothers in indigent communities would greatly benefit from the passage of the Reproductive health (RH) bill now being debated in Congress by getting better access to modern family planning methods.

BANGKOK (AlertNet) – New HIV infections in the Philippines are doubling every year due to inadequate prevention efforts and poor knowledge of risky behaviour among vulnerable groups, a top U.N. official said in an interview.

The Philippines must liberalize its economic policies to attract more investors, China’s top diplomat to Manila urged the government of President Aquino. Ambassador Liu Jianchao, at a press briefing Wednesday, singled out mining as one of the major industries that should undergo policy reforms as many Chinese investors complain of going through many obstacles before…

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine coconut exports from January to July this year declined by 40.2 percent, figures released yesterday by the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – US-based investment bank Citigroup believes emerging market economies, including the Philippines, have strong foreign exchange reserve coverage to survive renewed risk aversion that could lead to sharp reversals in capital flows.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) together with the Climate Change Commission and the National Youth Commission, and labor group Federation of Free Workers (FFW) pushed for the creation of “green jobs” to help increase employment opportunities while helping the country achieve sustainability.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine economy likely grew 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent in the second quarter of the year, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga Jr. said yesterday.

The confusion is getting worse. There are now three RH bills: the Lagman bill in the Lower House, the Santiago bill in the Upper House and the bill coming from Malacanang called Responsible Parenthood bill which is included among the list of priority bills sent to the Lower House for approval. The stakes must really…

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Airlines (PAL) has commenced implementation of its spin-off/outsourcing program by sending individual separation letters to about 2,600 workers from the airline’s catering, airport services and call center reservations units.

MANILA, Philippines – Businesses turned more optimistic in the third quarter of the year after two straight quarters of decline in the business optimism index under the Aquino administration.

MANILA, Philippines – IP E-Game Ventures Inc. (E-Games), online gaming subsidiary of publicly listed technology firm IPVG Corp., is targeting 1,000 internet cafes in the next 2 to 3 years.

Imports rose 6.6 percent year-on-year to $4.5 billion in June, snapping a six-month decline as higher oil shipments offset a sharp drop purchases in electronics and semiconductors, the National Statistics Office said Thursday.

■ Some 2,600 workers in the airline’s catering, airport services and call center operations get the pink slip PHILIPPINE Airlines said Thursday it had sent termination notices to about 2,600 workers as it started outsourcing jobs such as catering amid losses.