MANILA, Philippines – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia are in danger of losing their jobs as the Middle East country starts to strictly implement their “Saudization” scheme, according to a migrants rights group.
MANILA, Philippines – As the first 365 days of President Benigno Aquino III in office draws near, the proverbial question “What has the Aquino Presidency achieved?” is once again raised.
THE GOVERNMENT must better enforce regulations aimed at protecting overseas workers, particularly overseas household service workers, noted a study conducted by the Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC), in collaboration with the state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
BUSINESS SENTIMENT in the Asia-Pacific region has dropped due to rising costs and concerns over the global recovery, a Reuters survey released yesterday showed.
MANILA, Philippines – Favorable weather and improved economic conditions pulled down the number of jobless people nationwide, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday.
UNEMPLOYMENT fell slightly in April but labor experts said this was not necessarily good news as an increase in underemployment indicated a deterioration in the quality of available jobs.
TAKE-UP of office spaces continues to rise, underscoring the bullish outlook of multinational firms in the Philippines, according to data released by a real estate consultancy firm.
MANILA, Philippines – Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) climbed six percent in the first four months of the year after recovering from a steady slowdown since November last year on the back of strong demand for skilled Filipino workers, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.
CANBERRA — Businessmen yesterday called on the Aquino government to hold off from tightening regulations on mining, rejecting a plan by the Environment department to declare mines as “mineral reservations” to hike tax revenues.
CANBERRA — The Aquino administration will work out a “political solution” to problems hounding mining investments in the country, the Trade department said as it issued assurances of support in a meeting with counterparts in Australia, a major mining investor.
IT seems that the notoriety of some taxi drivers in the Philippines has got the attention of the United States, as the US State Department warned Americans against abusive taxi drivers, particularly those engaging in “contractual practices.”
During the 1986-1992 governance of President Corazon C. Aquino, the Department of Education was addressed as the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, and was headed by Dr. Lourdes Quisumbing.
After calling the Philippines its “strategic treaty ally,” the United States retained the country in its list of “dangerous or unstable” territories when it re-issued a damaging travel warning against Manila, citing heightened concerns on possible terrorist attacks.
FILIPINOS are one of the world’s most health-conscious in terms of food choice, a survey conducted by an international anti-poverty group showed.
MANILA, Philippines—Seven new species of mice have been found by local and US scientists in the mountains of the Philippines, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has said.
Washington D.C.—A new study by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) spotlights the impact of World Bank-supported programs in protecting the most vulnerable during the last decade. The study shows that the majority of social safety nets (SSNs)—programs designed to protect the poor from shocks and contribute to reducing chronic poverty—achieved their objectives. In several countries…
Amid growing concerns among Filipinos in New York about the city government’s plans to lay off teachers and other workers, Philippine officials there started a series of human rights education seminars for Filipino communities.
While HIV infection rates have dropped globally over the last decade, recent predictions warn that the Philippines will see a five-fold increase in infections before President Benigno Aquino finishes his current term. But last week’s UN High Level Meeting on AIDS offers the administration a chance to reset policy and commit to reversing recent trends.
THE COUNTRY’S unemployment rate slid to 7.2% in April from 8.0% a year earlier and 7.4% in the previous quarter, data from the National Statistics Office showed. A total of 2.9 million jobless Filipinos were recorded out of the 39.7 million-strong labor force in April.
OFFICIALS are hopeful of a competitiveness ranking boost for the Philippines given a recent reform simplifying processes for firms doing business in the country.
MANY private schools would have started classes only this Monday. I heard that even in private schools a lot of parents were making frantic efforts to have their kids avoid being covered by the K+12 program of the Department of Education, unsure as they are when exactly the new system would take effect in private…
Labor officials from the Philippines and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) discussed recent reforms in the Saudi labor system that will benefit overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there.
MANILA, Philippines (UDPATE) – Debt watcher Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the Philippines’ sovereign rating, with a stable outlook, on the country’s improved fiscal position and sustained macroeconomic stability.
The National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP-NASSA) on Tuesday appealed to President Benigno Aquino 3rd to resolve the work safety issues brought to its attention by workers of a Korean ship-building company based in Subic. Fr. Edu Gariguez, CBCP-NASSA executive secretary, said the government…
LAST week marked the 10th anniversary of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or Epira, passed into law with the objective of reducing electricity costs for the Filipino people and which was forced on the Philippines as a “necessary structural reform” in order to continue to qualify for development assistance, by the International Monetary Fund…
THE Aquino administration plans to conduct lifestyle checks on doctors, lawyers and other self-employed individuals to ensure they pay their taxes.
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At this time, the word from the chairman of the Senate finance committee, Sen. Franklin Drilon, a staunch ally of President Aquino, is that he isn’t quite buying the appeal of the social services secretary for an additional P2 billion for the already controversial conditional cash transfer (CCT), although bets are on that when Aquino…
For almost two decades now, Philippine domestic output has been moving forward but has been behind the growth of total income. In 2010, national income was 1.33 times the size of real domestic output! Thus, more income gets into the economy but real production is considerably less than income by almost a third of income.…