MANILA, Philippines – While struggling in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that hit their nation, Japan continues to support the development of conflict-affected areas in Mindanao as shown in the Japan-Bangsamoro Initiatives for Reconstruction and Development (J-BIRD).

MANILA, Philippines – The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) informed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) that there has been a 40 percent increase in the number of annulment cases over the last 10 years.

FILIPINOS can benefit a lot morally from the sad and costly experience that Japan—and the Japanese people— have been made to suffer these past two weeks.

SILANG, Cavite, Philippines  – Malacañang maintained yesterday that the Aquino administration’s position on responsible parenthood would not change despite the rally organized by the Catholic Church the other day to campaign against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill.

Under the chairmanship of Indonesia, ASEAN is on its course to become a single community with economic, socio-cultural, political and security pillars by 2015.

There is a saying that whenever the government needs money, all it does is increase the volume of money in circulation to trigger inflation, and people seldom know that an increase in the prices of almost everything they purchase would correspondingly increase the amount of taxes they pay. In fact, some say that government-induced inflation…

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has affirmed the Labor Department’s ruling allowing Philippine Airlines to lay off 2,600 employees as part of a program to spin off its ground service operations.

THE authors of the reproductive health bill have dropped a provision favoring two-child families and gave parents the option to opt out of sex education classes for their children, and in a bid to reduce opposition to the population management measure.

THERE’S another way of looking at yourself and determining the types of opportunities that you and your employees are most likely to take joy and pride in at work. Dave and Wendy Ulrich said that Marcus Buckingham and colleagues in his firm and the Gallup organization have also identified work-related skills and characteristics. The Ulrichs…

THOUSANDS of pro-life advocates and members of various religious groups on Friday converged at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park (Luneta) to show their opposition to the reproductive health (RH) bill pending in Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is drafting a P500-million nationwide assistance program to enable the transport sector to purchase diesel at P3 per liter lower than current prices, the country’s top energy official said yesterday.

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines  – The Philippines and China are the most affected countries in the East Asian region by developments in Japan, the World Bank said.

MANILA, Philippines – Monetary authorities expect inflation to peak either in the second or third quarter of the year as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees consumer prices in March averaging between four percent and five percent due to escalating global oil and food prices.

MANILA, Philippines –  Slightly more than half of Filipinos favored making Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez face impeachment proceedings, results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey show.

Banks are reducing some cardholders’ interest rates, thanks to a section of the credit card reform law that requires them to review any rate increases imposed since January 2009. Millions of consumers faced rate hikes that year, as the economy tanked, banks teetered, and credit card reforms loomed.

Three workers from a construction firm in South Cotabato were killed Friday in an ambush by “armed natives”, the military said in a belated report on Saturday.

At least 15 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who were rescued from a tsunami-stricken shipbuilding facility in northeast Japan have been re-employed after opting to stay there, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.

Last March 7, 2011, President Aquino, during the launch of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center, announced the first five PPP projects which will be subject to bidding this March to June. The PPP projects are: the P6.3 billion Metro Rail Transit Line 3, the P7.7 billion Light Railway Transit Line 1, the P1.6 billion Daang…

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People don’t understand a lot of things about radiation, so there’s understandable fear. There’s always fear of something you don’t understand—fear of the unknown. It’s a normal human reaction. The solution to it is not to give into that fear. The answer is to understand. I was taught about nuclear power in school, but that…

MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) has filed the official results of its strike ballot at the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) Friday morning.

MANILA, Philippines – New York-based think-tank Global Source Partners has downplayed the impact of the ongoing tensions in Middle East and North African (MENA) nations as well as the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and that devastating tsunami in Japan on the Philippine economy.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) raised yesterday its key policy rates by 25 basis points after keeping them at record lows for 20 months to rein in inflation expectations amid escalating global oil and food prices due to tensions in the Middle East and North African (MENA) states as well as…

BERLIN – Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done.

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey of Pulse Asia released yesterday showed that more Filipinos trust Vice President Jejomar Binay than President Aquino.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Malacañang gave its nod to the plan of local carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) to spin-off 3 non-core units that would result in job losses.

Job and career-related web sites continue to be one of the fastest-growing categories online, which is not surprising as the number of people seeking job opportunities continues to rise as students graduate and join the labor force.

Over 200 faculty members from the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) and the University of the Philippines (UP) declared their support for the Reproductive Health (RH) bill and urged lawmakers to immediately pass the bill in Congress.

UNITED NATIONS—Some 27.5 million people have been displaced within their countries by natural disaster, famine and war, the highest number in a decade, according to a new report released Wednesday.

CEBU, Philippines – The National Clergy Discernment Group (NCDG) sent a position letter to the Office of the President on what it said was unjust treatment of the Visayan Electric Company (VECO) against some Visayan Electric Company Employees Union (VECEU) members.