GENERAL SANTOS CITY—The Tampakan environment office has sounded the alarm on the rising mercury content of the Pula Bato River, which could put in danger the health and safety of residents.

A BETTER Christmas this year; but with a fewer number of employed people.
That’s what economist Victor Abola predicted on Thursday, as he presented the Dun&Bradstreet Inc. business optimism index (BOI) showing a positive outlook for the fourth quarter by 260 companies.

MANILA, Philippines—In her jumbled English, 13-year-old Stella Mae Santos wrote her wish to the government: “I want to the poor people to have and dress and school requirements and money so that they have for buying foods.”

WASHINGTON—With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is “nowhere near” reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released last week.

MANILA, Philippines—The government should proceed with the expansion of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program but with due caution, a government think-tank said in a news release.

WILL two more years added to basic education equip high school students with skills to enter the world of work and or pursue a college degree?

The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) sees substantive infirmities in the provisions of House Bill (HB) 6342. COMP pointed these out in a formal submission to the House of Representatives.

The Alternative Mining Bill (AMB), a.k.a. House Bill (HB) 6342, or the Philippine Mineral Resources Act of 2009, is a proposed policy to scrap the Mining Act of 1995 and introduce a new mining policy, which is anchored on land and natural resources management and human rights-based approach. The bill aims to regulate the rational…

The Philippines is considered the fifth richest mineral resources in the world with a mineral wealth worth more than $840 billion—equivalent to at least 10 times its annual gross domestic product (GDP) and more than 15 times its total foreign debt—remained untapped. Government data show the country to have substantial mineral deposits including copper, gold,…

IF House Bill (HB) 6342 is passed, all mining activities could halt. Is it the Aquino administration’s wish for Congress to pass the Alternative Mining Bill, or House Bill 6342? The bill, which is offered by its authors to replace the existing Mining Act of 1995, contains a provision that calls for a moratorium on…

CLARK FIELD (PLDT/WeRoam) — Killer typhoon “Juan” had not landed yet last Friday, but Metro Manila and other areas were already being battered blind by rotating power blackouts lasting hours.

PUBLIC Works Secretary Rogelio Singson on Friday promised P50 million in projects to 57 party-list lawmakers who demanded “equal treatment and a sense of parity” with congressmen who received additional funding for their districts, but House leaders balked at the offer, saying it would set “a bad precedent.”

MANILA, Philippines –  A party-list congressman filed Friday a bill that seeks to limit the interest rate being charged by credit card companies to one percent a month or 12 percent a year.

MANILA, Philippines—The number of Filipino nurses seeking jobs in the United States continues to decline, dropping by 38 percent in the third quarter, a prominent labor leader said Saturday.

CEBU, Philippines – The national government, through the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is intensifying its efforts to boost the research and development (R&D) skills of the Philippines.

The continuing appreciation of peso has started to impact on a few business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in the Philippines that have sent out signals of possibly closing shop.

A Filipino high school student from the Philippine School in Bahrain topped a recently concluded Inter-School Speech competition in Manama.

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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government continues to score poorly in the areas of stable laws, access to justice and corruption compared to similarly situated countries in the region, a new report on government effectiveness revealed Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Television continues to lord it over all media in the Philippines, but Filipinos are watching less of it as a result of changing lifestyles and habits, a media poll group said Friday.

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Despite the government travel ban to Afghanistan, some 4,000 undocumented Filipinos are reportedly working in the Middle East state, Labor and diplomatic sources yesterday said.

I had the good fortune to listen to an ensemble of illustrious, knowledgeable and practical speakers from different parts of the world at the Summit on Globalization of Human Capital held in Taipei, Taiwan last Sept 24 to 26. Among them are keynote speakers USA’s Dr/Prof. Dave Ulrich and Switzerland’s David Prince and concurrent session…

FILIPINOS, particularly the younger ones, have stopped the habit of reading newspapers because of changing lifestyle and other platforms.

WASHINGTON, D.C: Sweden and The Netherlands scored high, with the United States lagging behind its high-income peers in a new ranking of government effectiveness called the “Rule of Law Index.”

MANILA, Philippines – The European Union (EU) has warned that if the Philippines continues to drag its feet on a possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the EU might not be able to accommodate the Philippines anymore because it is processing several agreements with other Asian countries.

MANILA, Philippines – Officials lamented that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) allocated only P38.8 million to the 2011 budget of the Climate Change Commission (CCC).

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Senate will continue to hear important legislative measures including the Reproductive Health (RH) bill during its two-and-a-half week break that began on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang is renewing its pitch for a P21-billion program to benefit the “poorest of the poor,” appealing to Congress to keep the funds intact.

When the 21 leaders of APEC economies – including President Barack Obama, President Hu Jin-Tao, and our own President Aquino – meet next month in Yokohama, it will be the 18th time that APEC heads will do so. I have been privileged to attend all the APEC Summits beginning with the first one in Blake…