MANILA, Philippines –  The Department of Health (DOH) is now in a quandary on how to curb the growing number of cases of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among injecting drug users due to conflicting laws on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and drug abuse.

MANILA, Philippines –  The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading yesterday a bill prohibiting the “no permit, no examination” policy in colleges, universities and vocational schools.

At least 186 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including children who used to live under a bridge in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, arrived in Manila early yesterday morning after being repatriated by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).

MANILA, Philippines –  Leaders of an indigenous people’s (IP) group from Palawan sought yesterday to stop the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) from issuing permits to mining companies encroaching on ancestral lands in the province.

The House of Representatives yesterday expanded the list of commodities that should be placed under price control to include instant noodles, bottled water, fruits and liquefied petroleum gas.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) yesterday belied findings by an international human rights watchdog of insufficient steps by the Aquino administration to address the culture of impunity in extra-judicial killings in the country.

In East Asia, the Philippines has the lowest level of foreign direct investments (FDIs). A major explanation is the very Constitution of the Philippines, which restricts or prohibits foreign investments in strategic sectors of the economy. Other reasons are our notoriety for corruption, the high cost of electricity and the generally poor state of infrastructures.

Northern Mindanao tree planters and wood processors are asking the Environment Department to return the one-year supply contract for “tree planted species” instead of the five-year supply contract mandated by Executive Order (EO) 23 or the moratorium on logging.

To boost the Philippines’ competitiveness and strengthen the country’s industries, the President has issued an executive order renaming and expanding the membership of the Public-Private Sector Task Force on Philippine Competitiveness.

Higher tablet demand and lower Netbook sales are likely to take a greater bite out of the PC market this year than expected, according to data released today by Gartner.

New labour attache vows to decongest FWRC KUWAIT CITY, June 7: A total of 131 distressed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS) were repatriated to the Philippines on two consecutive days as part of the series of mass repatriation of stranded OFWs in Kuwait. The first batch composed of 86 OFWs left on Monday evening while the…

A CRITIC of the 10-year-old Electric Power Reform Act said Tuesday that law had failed to lower electricity rates and instead resulted in higher power bills.

CEBU, Philippines – Individuals with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus, transgenders and homosexuals are being harassed and maligned for being different and for being HIV positive, but they are fighting against it.

STATE-RUN Social Security System (SSS) has expanded the range of cut-off dates for contribution and loan remittances of members and employers to eliminate long queues during payment deadlines.

DAVAO CITY: Two people, including a Chinese, were killed during an accident inside a gold mine in southern Philippines, police said Tuesday. The disaster happened inside a small-scale mining shaft in Del Pilar village in Agusan del Norte province late Saturday, according to Chief Superintendent Reynaldo Rafal, police chief for Caraga region where Agusan del…

The Philippine economy operates in the wide world of international trade in goods and in the movement of economic resources. The extent of this role in trade has risen and provides a promising future. This much can be discerned from the recently rebased national income series based the constant prices of 2000.

Beyond the subsidy called Feed-in Tariff, there are other things that ought to be looked at before we agree to allow them to put additional burdens on our power users. For instance, it is not clear, the position paper of the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) observes, what is it exactly that the envisioned FIT…

The culture of impunity in cases of extra-judicial killings has never gone away, even with a new leadership in government.

MANILA, Philippines –  The House committee on ways and means yesterday approved the proposed Investments and Incentives Code of the Philippines, one of 23 priority bills of the Aquino administration that aims to enhance the economy’s global competitiveness through investment promotion and industrial development activities.

MANILA, Philippines –  The public school system lacks 143,281 classrooms this year, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—Keeping tax financing out of its economic-management strategy could cost the government its commitments on education, maternal and reproductive health, and poverty reduction, according to economists.

Metro Manila has become the center of the business process outsourcing (BPO) world, an industry expert said at a conference on services exports.

MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / June 7, 2011) – The House of Representatives passed on third and final reading a bill that would compel credit card firms to clearly indicate in their billing statements the high price that cardholders would have to pay, should they decide to settle only the minimum monthly amount due, and…

THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are urging the government to review its fiscal incentives program, saying it is redundant and stops it from raising more revenue.

THE higher quality of the Filipino workers being sent abroad made up for the 8-percent drop in the total number dispatched in the first four months, and at the same time raised the amount they remitted during the period, an official said Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – Labor chief Rosalinda Baldoz today announced that the Hong Kong labor department has increased the minimum allowable increase (MAW) and food allowance for foreign domestic helpers.

MANILA, Philippines — A joint panel in the Senate has formally endorsed for plenary approval  the controversial Reproductive Health bill aimed at providing informed choice and equal access to all methods of family planning.

MANILA, Philippines – The scheduled review of the Japan Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is still in limbo because the two governments cannot agree on a meeting yet.

MANILA, Philippines – British-owned Standard Chartered Bank revised upwards its 2011 economic growth forecast for the Philippines to 5.7 percent from the original 5.4 percent.

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank prodded the Philippines to reform its fiscal incentive system amid a redundancy that has rendered tax administration inefficient in raising revenues.