DEAR EMILY, How do you forgive a husband whom you have loved more than your life, idolized, respected, adored to high heavens? He journeyed through life with me for 35 years, vowed to love me through thick and thin, till death do us part.

MANILA, Philippines — Though they may be skyrocketing now, fuel prices will eventually slide to cheaper levels, the Department of Energy (DoE) believes.

MANILA, Philippines –  Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has proposed to bring down the retirement age of Social Security System (SSS) members from 60 to 55 to allow them to enjoy their benefits while still at a productive age.

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino professor won the prestigious 2011 Gallieno Denardo international physics award for his work on semiconductor optics.

MANILA, Philippines – Suspected communist rebels torched a container van owned by Dole Philippines after flagging it down in a secluded area in Surigao del Sur on Friday, the military said.

MANILA, Philippines – Wood producers holding industrial forest management agreements (IFMAs) or timber license agreements (TLAs) are appealing to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to give them more time for an orderly phase-out of their logging activities in natural and residual forests included in their contracts.

Press for enactment of new mining law “FOR more than a decade and a half, contrary to the promises of development and prosperity that comes with the enactment of the Mining Act of 1995, the Filipino people have only witnessed and become victims of the havoc that the foreign-dominated mining industry has brought to our…

NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel to end the week at a 29-month high, as fighting in Libya intensified and the world’s largest petroleum consumer, the US, reported that employers added nearly 200,000 new jobs in February.

BUSINESSMEN have warned Congress that thousands may lose their jobs once plastic bag usage is banned.

MANILA, Philippines –  An anti-bribery group in the United Kingdom said yesterday corruption is a barrier to investment and distorts the economy of a country.

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In an attempt to attend the numerous requests for assistance coming from undocumented and overstaying overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), several groups of Filipino migrants join hands to work for the legalization and repatriation of about more than 2,000 undocumented and overstaying Filipino workers, mostly women, in Saudi Arabia.

The Interagency Energy Contingency Committee (IECC) was finally established yesterday as President Aquino signed Administrative Order (AO) No. 6 creating such body tasked to ensure the continuous adequate and stable supply of petroleum and other energy sources in the country.

Nurses organizations in the country haves joined lawmakers in criticizing the practice of collecting fees from nursing students doing volunteer work in government and private hospitals.

MANILA, Philippines – Sales of locally manufactured vehicles (LMV) went up by 18 percent in 2010 when compared to the previous year as the local automotive industry continues to improve.

Due to DepEd’s failure to update GSIS records of employees ABOUT 198,000 teachers and employees of the Department of Education may lose their pension fund credits with the Government Service Insurance System. This is because the DepEd failed to meet the deadline set by the GSIS to reconcile and update the service records of its…

Last week, we started identifying “gender insensitive” crimes punished under the Revised Penal Code (RPC). I received a kind text from former Cadiz City Mayor Bing Guanzon congratulating me for writing about the issue. She said this was timely given the 100th anniversary of the International Woman’s Day which we will be celebrating on Tuesday,…

MANILA, Philippines – Human and drug trafficking, corruption, and investment scams have remained the principal sources of criminal activities in the Philippines, according to the 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released yesterday.

THREE of the largest organizations of nurses in the Philippines joined legislators in eyeing to stop the volunteer nursing training program allegedly exploited by numerous private and government medical institutions.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago reiterated her call for Congress to pass the proposed reproductive health (RH) bill in order to help address the rising number of maternity-related deaths, unwanted pregnancies and HIV cases in the country.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has imposed an internal deadline to relocate and repatriate the remaining overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in critical areas in Libya by today.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has formed a committee to address the recent oil price increases and ensure steady supply of fuel in the country amid political unrest in the Middle East and Africa.

Job opportunities in European companies are opening up for Filipino workers repatriated from Libya, the Department of Labor and Employment said Saturday.

BHUBANESHWAR, India (AP) — Indian police detained two people after an angry mob of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an official said Friday.

CONSENSUS is building up both in government and in the private sector that this year’s economic growth target would not be met.

Concluded from yesterday A little more than 10 years ago, it was the Philippines that led 133 other nations in acknowledging the threat of this global phenomenon.

WITH the alarming rate of young people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the Department of Education (DepEd) said that there is a need for a more active approach to the issue which is regarded as an “educational emergency.”

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Thursday said that it is granting P10,000 financial assistance to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) returning from war-torn areas in the Middle East and Libya.

MANILA, Philippines –  Social Security System (SSS), the state-owned pension fund for private employees, is planning to raise this year its contribution rate to 11 percent of a worker’s monthly salary credit (MSC) from the existing 10.4 percent, its top official told The STAR.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Philippines has been retained in the ordinary watchlist of the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said.