MANILA, Philippines – While the country was battered by several strong typhoons this year, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) was likewise hit by an internal tempest that left its chief weatherman the lone casualty.

MANILA, Philippines – Vice President Jejomar Binay is determined not to be just a spare tire of the President.

BUSINESSMEN want the Philippine government to act fast, negotiate with the European Union for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) and warn that continued pussy-footing will cause our country to miss the opportunities that our Association of Southeast Asian Nations fellow-member-countries have begun to benefit from.

MANILA, Philippines – 2010 was certainly a challenging year for the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the local tourism industry, as one crisis followed after another.

MANILA, Philippines – One hundred and 12 Filipinos tested positive for HIV in November, up 40% from the 80 reported cases in November last year, according to the HIV and AIDS Registry of the Department of Health (DOH).

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga, Philippines—Protect the family. This message rang out in Pampanga on Christmas Day when Archbishop Paciano Aniceto dwelt on the dangers posed by the reproductive health (RH) bill in his pastoral statement that was read in 92 parishes during Misa de Gallo.

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Philippines (PNA) — Deregulation and stiff competition determine the prices of petroleum products, including their disparities.

Public-private partnership or PPP is again the catch phrase in the Philippines as a formula for carrying out large infrastructure projects, an engine for economic growth.

TOKYO – East Asia’s booming economies have for years been the envy of the world, but a shortfall in one crucial area — babies — threatens to render yesterday’s tigers toothless.

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CEBU, Philippines – Party-list group Trade Union Congress Party urged the government and the private sector to participate in the House deliberation of the proposed Magna Carta for the Poor.

TUBLAY, Benguet, Philippines — Today’s youth must venture on technical-vocational (tech-voc) courses to help them land high-paying local and overseas employment, Rep. Ronald M. Cosalan said here recently.

It’s not surprising surveys that purport that many Filipinos find contraceptives acceptable (or that imply that contraceptives should be used for population control) are being used to promote the RH bill. Two problems quickly come to mind when it comes to the use of such surveys to determine state policy: reference framework issues and governance…

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The Philippines has been outpaced by neighboring Asian countries in terms of labor, employment and competitiveness, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said.

Shipment cost of donated trains from Japan MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine National Railways (PNR) has secured the funding it needs to ship to the country donated trains from Japan that will augment the train line’s current passenger and cargo capacity.

Labor officials urged local government units (LGUs) to register their constituents in the government’s Skills Registry System (SRS) to help them find jobs more easily.

The Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight attendants union has called off its planned labor strike after the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) raised the attendants’ compulsory retirement age from 40 to 60 years old.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has branded the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s internal peace and security plan (IPSP) “Bayanihan” as “the same dog with a different collar,” stressing the new plan is patterned after the United States militarist counterinsurgency guide.

THE National Statistics Office (NSO) on Thursday said imports in October rose to a five-month high on electronics and fuel purchases from abroad, even as domestic factory output grew at its slowest pace in 10 months.

UNIVERSITIES and colleges in the country are now prohibited from forcing their students from enrolling in a preferred review center of the said higher education institutions (HEIs).

A senior official of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said that the Philippines is likely to exceed its growth target this year, but warned of a slowdown next year because of a “quite fragile” global economic recovery.

CEBU, Philippines – Effective January 1, 2011, PhilHealth will implement additional conditions on members’ eligibility to avail of benefits. These conditions are aimed at making benefits more responsive and safeguarding the funds from possible abuse to ensure the sustainability of the program.

CEBU, Philippines – Party-list group Trade Union Congress Party urged the government and the private sector to participate in the House deliberation of the proposed Magna Carta for the Poor.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers in the Calabarzon region, comprising Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon, are getting their much awaited salary hike, the Department of Labor and Employment said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will likely surpass its 2010 economic growth target of five to six percent because of the strong gross domestic product performance in the first half of the year, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Cayetano Paderanga Jr. said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines expects its estimated $50-billion merchandise export figure this year to double by 2016, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Vice President Jejomar Binay focused his attention on housing reforms during his first five months in office.

MANILA, Philippines – Investments in the country’s economic zones jumped 17 percent to a nine-year high of P204.4 billion in 2010 as electronic firms continue to expand, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said.

In a bit of good news towards the turn of the year, our newspapers have been highlighting the fact that the Philippines has overtaken India as the world leader in business process outsourcing (BPO). IBM’s Global Locations Trend 2010 declared the Philippines as the world’s number one location for shared services and BPO. This year,…

MANILA, Philippines – The year 2010 was a roller coaster ride for the Philippine National Police (PNP), earning praises for its vital role in ensuring honest and peaceful national and local elections, while condemned for failing to successfully resolve the hostage crisis that resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong tourists.