Overfishing in Southeast Asian seas has left garoupas and sea bass in dire straits, searching for mates on denuded seabeds, according to experts alarmed by declining catches. Marine scientists and fishermen say that popular fish species—especially the large and valuable ones—have been caught indiscriminately, causing numbers to plunge dramatically.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The 11 displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) now stranded in Los Angeles on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) vehemently denied receiving any help from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) based in Washington, D.C. The workers, who are believed to be victims of human traffickers, said that the only assistance they have received since…

CEBU, Philippines – VECO Employees Union-Associated Labor Unions-Trade Congress of the Philip-pines (VECEU-ALU-TUCP) president Casmero Mahilum said that during mediation, the management remained steadfast in its stand not to reinstate him from service.

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s exports continued to surge, posting a double-digit growth of 46.1 percent to $5.314 billion in September – the highest in almost 30 years – as global recovery boosts demand for locally-made electronic products, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday.

(Conclusion of series on P-Noy’s K-12 Educational Plan) Since President Noynoy Aquino decided to work out the K-12 educational mandate, major business conglomerates have expressed their strong support to help implement it. The most recent is the Aboitiz Foundation who signed a memo of agreement with Education Secretary Armin Luistro. Executives of the country’s top…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd), in coordination with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), will continue to strengthen 282 technical-vocational high schools it was currently supervising.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have imposed a ban on the use of solutions with cyanide and other toxic substances in cleaning silver jewelry.

HONG KONG – Employers here are protesting the new compulsory insurance requirement for overseas Filipino workers stipulated in the amended Migrant Workers Act of 1995, saying this constitutes double insurance which would overburden them and lead to job loss.   

We should have more decisions, and Department Secretaries, like this! Three aggrieved teachers in Visayas vindicated by CHED’s decision Working for more than 20 years in the high school department, three teachers of a Visayas university had the shock of their teaching lives when they received on June 15, 2010 a memo reassigning them to…

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MANILA, Philippines— Philippine exporters are urged to tap existing free trade agreements (FTAs) in striking new business partnerships with prospective foreign companies and in further expanding their markets abroad.

MANILA, Philippines—Seeking to “tame” credit card companies, a lawmaker on Monday proposed to slash the current three percent monthly interest rate they charge card holders to one percent.

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine population will continue to grow in the next 50 years even if each couple limits children to two, an official of the Commission on Population (Popcom) said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines—More than 700 hospitals all over the country have so far conformed with a Department of Health (DoH) order for the gradual phaseout of all medical devices containing mercury, a nongovernment environmental health group said Tuesday.

The 2,300-strong PLDT rank-and-file union Manggagawa sa Komunikasyon ng Pilipinas (MKP)  is seeking a meeting with the management to clarify certain issues regarding the company’s ongoing manpower reduction, including its “compensation program,” which was said to have been forced upon some employees.

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FAMILY, HEALTH, and religion emerged as Filipino men’s and women’s top sources of joy in the 2010 Philippine Happiness Index (PHI), whose results were released yesterday by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

THE PHILIPPINES, India and Indonesia offer the biggest opportunities for the fledging microinsurance industry, which has a potential market of 3 billion people, industry officials said on Tuesday.

Some 58 Filipino teachers in Brunei attended an orientation conducted by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) about the government services they can avail of while working abroad.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will likely grow by 6% this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said, a pace at the high end of the government’s target but lower compared to outlooks for 5 Southeast Asian neighbors.

Money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is likely to grow by 7.8 percent this year, according to a new World Bank report. In its “Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011,” the Washington-based lender said that OFW remittances will reach $21.31 billion this year from P19.77 billion last year.

A neophyte party-list lawmaker yesterday sought amendments to the Labor Code particularly on the provisions about security of tenure and contractualization of workers.

The level of happiness among poor Filipinos fell “dramatically” over the last three years, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). In its Statistically Speaking, NSCB Secretary General Romulo Virola on Tuesday said that the level of happiness did not change much between 2007 and 2008, but dramatically went down in 2010.

The six major Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries have rebounded from the global economic crisis with average expected growth of 7.3 percent this year, and 6 percent over the next five years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Tuesday. Vietnam is expected to post the highest average growth rate…

MANILA, Philippines – After the Manila hostage fiasco, Filipinos aspiring to work in Hong Kong face a new crisis. Employment agencies in Hong Kong are now threatening to stop the recruitment of workers from the Philippines due to the mandatory insurance requirement.

MANILA, Philippines – The electronics industry is expecting exports to hit $50 billion in six years and investments to reach $2 billion in 2011 from only $1 billion this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines ranks as the fourth biggest recipient of remittances worldwide with an estimated $21.3-billion inflow this year, a new World Bank study showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is eyeing China, Malaysia and Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar as new market for its banana exports, Agriculture Undersecretary for special concerns Berna Romulo-Puyat said yesterday.