MANILA, Philippines – A US-based population and health expert yesterday warned that the Philippines could be as impoverished as Somalia because of its ballooning population.

MANILA, Philippines – Business confidence in the country reached an all-time high in the fourth quarter on expectations of sustained economic improvement and strong domestic demand, fueled in part by the steady stream of remittances from overseas Filipino workers and higher capital inflows.     

REPRESENTATIVES FROM the government and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) met Friday to lay down the framework for dialogues on reproductive health.

protesters yesterday tried but failed to break inside the Marriott Hotel in Pasay City where President Aquino and his team of economic managers were launching his administration’s pet project that aims to attract the biggest local investors to infuse fund into major government projects, the first 10 of which are already worth a total of…

The Department of Energy should fully exercise its oversight powers on the country’s oil players following the latest round of oil price hike allegedly to even out losses while one big oil player publicly announced that it posted a 59 percent increase in profit from January to September this year.

“Diven the many issues that are basic to the well-being of the Filipino people such as electricity, water, public transport and toll ways that are not being dealt with by most columnists of mainstream media, I have made it a point to focus on them through this space. But whenever I see issues covered extensively…

The Child Protection Unit (CPU) said the Philippines ranks 4th on the list of countries having a large number of prostituted children.

Investment pledges made by foreign entities in the third quarter jumped by double digits, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the fifth part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series.

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As long as people continue to think of Facebook as their personal diary (a personal diary viewable by everyone from your sixth grade best friend to your dentist), there are going to be problems. And, consequently, there are going to be lawsuits, because that’s just how people roll these days.

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma, guesting at an academic forum at the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman in Quezon City on Thursday, cited the need for the inclusion of human rights subjects in the basic and tertiary education levels.

Press release by the Department of Labor and Employment As the Department of labor and Employment (DOLE) pilot-tests the single entry approach (SEnA) prescribing a 30-day mandatory conciliation-mediation services for the judicious and speedy settlement of all DOLE cases, DOLE-NCR director and concurrent chairman of the Regional Coordinating Council-NCR Raymundo G. Agravante announced the setting-up…

MANILA, Philippines – A state university announced that they will hold campus strikes in the coming week in their campaign against the budget cut of state universities and colleges.

MANILA, Philippines –  Based on Department of Health (DOH) figures, 10% or 1 of every 10 medicines in the country is fake, according to the Samahan Laban sa Pekeng Gamot (Samahan).

There must be many millions of citizen-of-the-world Filipinos, OFWS mainly and those who proclaim wishing they were born nationals of some other countries. They are at home in the global village, the planet that—as far as marketing, products and the entertainment media go—has become an economic and, except for passports and visas, political unity.

MALOLOS CITY, Philippines – Another firecracker warehouse, this time in the Bulacan town of Baliuag, exploded yesterday, less than 48 hours after a massive blast flattened a similar bodega in Angat town Monday night.

The increasingly (again) heated discussion around the use of modern methods of contraception is brought about by the renewed efforts to pass, on one hand, and block, on the other, the passage of the Reproductive Health bill in Congress.  

WHO MUST PAY?: Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone is right. Why should we captive electricity consumers be made to suffer and pay for the mismanagement and anomalies in the National Power Corp.?

MANILA, Philippines – Almost half of the Philippines’ population is dissatisfied with the way the government is handling the pursuit of justice for the victims of the Nov. 23 Maguindanao massacre, the latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

ANALYSIS Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the fourth part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series.

The Department of Agriculture on Wednesday said it will allot an initial P900 million next year to boost the country’s organic agriculture program.

A Filipina housemaid and her Bangladeshi boyfriend were sentenced to 100 lashes each after a United Arab Emirates court found them guilty of having an illicit affair.

NETHERLANDS – Time and money. These are the two main issues why a lot of Filipinos, lawmakers, parents and students alike, are questioning the feasibility of the K+12 proposal of the Department of Education (DepEd).

Like most newspapermen, this columnist instinctively sympathizes with the workingman. We share a common fate as modern-day proles. We work for a living—and for someone else. Our capacity to perform certain jobs is all that we can bring to the marketplace.

The Philippines continues to fall behind two indicators, on health and primary education expenditures, in the yearly score card of the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) that tracks country’s compliance with the global goal of eliminating poverty by 2015.

THE number of bus operators which was blown out of proportion is being blamed as one of the many reasons why major thoroughfares of Metro Manila is considered one of the most traffic place in the world, an international study revealed. Engineer Rene Santiago, who had been the leader of the group who study the…

Fifty more repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have arrived from Lebanon on Tuesday at Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the third part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series.

MANILA, Philippines – The Board of Investments (BOI) is projecting investments for 2010 to reach P300 billion, well over its target of P287 billion.