First Metro Investments & UA&P: After contracting 10% for the first three quarters last year, the country’s GDP returns to positive territory & will expand by 5.5-6.5% underpinned by OFW remittances, which are expected to increase by 4-6% this year… pic.twitter.com/grLQHVCfsx — Warren de Guzman (@wddeguzman) January 14, 2021
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by AFP Relaxnews, 13 Jan 2021 Personal computer (PC) sales were up by more than 13% worldwide in 2020.
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by INQUIRER.net, 13 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Nearly 55,000 private school students with unpaid tuition fees have received financial assistance under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has said.
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Data collated by the Asian Development Bank show COVID-19 accelerated digitalization and e-commerce, but that acceleration was uneven. The pandemic did more to reverse gains in MSME growth and poverty reduction. Look for the Philippines in the chart on online purchases. pic.twitter.com/sOobnwoiuY — Warren de Guzman (@wddeguzman) January 13, 2021
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by Kristine Joy Patag (Philstar.com), 12 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — An alarming surge in child sexual exploitation online during the pandemic has caught the attention of Malacañang which has ordered penalizing telco firms supposedly for failing to prevent the proliferation of the illicit activity.
by Richa Noriega, Manila Bulletin, 12 Jan 2021 The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) underscored on Tuesday that if children faced another year of school closures, the effects will be felt for the next generation.
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by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 11 Jan 2021 From January to November 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The gross non-performing loan (NPL) ratio of Philippine banks accelerated for the 11th straight month to hit the highest level in more than seven years as the industry’s bad debts surged by 74 percent due to the impact…
by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 11 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Total investments approved by the Board of Investments (BOI) reached the P1 trillion level last year, but was down 11 percent compared to 2019 amid the pandemic.
by Delon Porcalla (The Philippine Star), 11 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Business groups, including the most influential in post-Marcos era administrations, have expressed support for the lifting of prohibitive economic provisions in the 34-year-old Constitution enacted during the time of the late president Corazon Aquino, according to a congressman.
by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), 11 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has the worst traffic situation among six Southeast Asian countries, and is ranked ninth worst in the world, according to the recent Numbeo report.
by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 11 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A labor group fears a “worse” unemployment situation in the country this year, unless the government enforces the necessary intervention measures.
by Ben O. de Vera, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 9 Jan 2021 Exports returned to year-on-year growth in November last year even as the prolonged imports slump pulled the Philippines’ total foreign trade down by 10.6 percent to $13.31 billion that month.
by Daxim L. Lucas, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 9 Jan 2021 The heads of the country’s banks are slightly less optimistic about the industry’s prospects over the medium term due to what they believe would be the lingering economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a central bank poll during the second half of last…
by Rey Gamboa (The Philippine Star), 9 Jan 2021 The massive unemployment caused by the continuing quarantines should be given more serious attention by the government. While global production of vaccines against the coronavirus is ramping up, the Philippines cannot expect unemployment rates to go back to pre-pandemic levels any time soon.
By Patrick Roxas, TMT, Manila Times, 7 Jan 2021 Subic Philippines Corp. had retrenched 784 or more than 70 percent of its workers here to maintain the viability of its operations, the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) said on Wednesday.
By Ammielou Gaduena, BusinessWorld, 7 Jan 2021 THE COVID-19 pandemic has sent shockwaves across the globe, and workplaces are among the most severely affected by the crisis. Reports* from the National Task Force against COVID-19 and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) have identified workplaces as one of the…
by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 7 Jan 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is likely to be the last country in Asia-Pacific to fully recover from the pandemic-induced recession, with recovery seen only in the fourth quarter of 2022 while other economies are set to regain all of their lost output by the end…
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
