Motorists using the Skyway and Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway will pay higher toll starting on April 25, according to the Toll Regulatory Board.

A GLOOMY scenario in politics but good vibes for popular television host Willie Revillame is what a famous psychic sees in the future.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a militant leader who heads a group of small scale miners in the southern Philippines, local human rights groups said Friday.

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MORE Filipinos have started to lose their optimism about the future, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) grew by only 6.2 percent in February, the slowest in nine months, but the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) remains confident on the resilience of remittances nothwithstanding the tensions in Middle East and North African (MENA) states as well as the disaster in Japan.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has been allocated by the US government an additional sugar export quota of 60,000 metric tons raw value (MTRV).

MANILA, Philippines—Last month, Brenda received chilling news from her employer. After being recruited and spending two years as a teacher in the United States, she was told that her temporary working visa was not going to be extended after September 2011. She would have to leave the United States to avoid falling out of status.…

Local car makers will try to purchase their parts temporarily from other sources due to a supply disruption in Japan, the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. said Thursday.

THE Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) called on organized labor to go slow on its clamor for a new round of wage increases amid pronouncements of a “supervening condition.”

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Manila, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday that the net inflow of foreign portfolio investments or “hot money” surged 153 percent in the first quarter of the year despite a sharp decline in inflows in March due to the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Ten years ago Jacky Rowena Tiu was kidnapped for ransom at gunpoint in La Union. Most Chinese-Filipino victims would quietly restart normal lives after such trauma. But not Jacky. Then in her 20s, she bore the emotional drain of trial and threats to family security to prosecute her tormentors. To this day, however, justice has…

An environmental watchdog has urged Christian Filipinos to quietly mark the upcoming Earth Day on April 22 with a commitment to “put to death” destructive practices not only on Good Friday but all throughout the year.

President Aquino, who is lately besieged by falling survey ratings and threats of massive protest actions from a disgruntled labor sector, ordered the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) to implement a P25 wage increase for private employees in Metro Manila, a business sector source said.

China has expressed “strong interest” in reinforcing its investments in the Philippines through the Aquino adminis-tration’s public-private partnership (PPP) initiative, signaling the improving economic ties between the two countries after a bungled telecommunications project and mishandling of a hostage-taking incident that killed eight Hong Kong tourists.

UNFAZED by the dismissal of a P124 wage increase petition of a labor group on Wednesday, another labor group is set to file a petition for a P75 increase in the minimum wage for Cebu workers next week.

MANILA, Philippines—The regional wage board in Western Visayas Thursday joined that of Metro Manila’s in declaring that a “supervening condition” existed in the area which merited increases in wages or nonwage benefits of workers, a ranking labor official said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines—Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) comprise one-fourth of the 6,326 total cases listed in the National HIV and AIDS Registry, according to Rep. Arnel Ty of the party-list group LPGMA.

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MANILA, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – At the tender age of 10, Rodel Morozco was working in a goldmine and crawling inside tunnels, until one day he fell 200 feet underground because his father had blasted the tunnel with dynamite.

DESPITE the global economic crisis, at least 406,000 Filipinos landed jobs abroad in the first quarter of this year, up by 70 percent, according to administrator Carlos Cao Jr. of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.

THE government agency that sets minimum wage rates on Wednesday announced it will be holding public hearings on a new pay increase for Metro Manila’s workers, and even though the last increase of P22 a day was granted less than a year ago, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said.

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DOJ ISSUES ADVISORY OPINION ON RULES ON MILITARY/POLICE CHECKPOINTS 24 March 2011 The Department of Justice (DOJ) released today the first Advisory Opinion summarizing the basic rights of citizens in military/police checkpoints.

AR assemblers have started shutting down their manufacturing operations as they grapple with a parts shortage resulting from the crisis in Japan.

MANILA, Philippines – Pay hikes for Metro Manila workers could be announced as early as next month as a “supervening condition” has been declared by wage officials.

Unions will commemorate and highlight the International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) on April 28 with a call for the Philippine government to inspect public buildings and to reduce exposure of workers and their families to presence of asbestos and asbestos containing materials.

NEW DELHI—The attrition rate in India’s business process outsourcing sector jumped to 55 percent from a year earlier, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the flagship industry, a study said on Thursday.