INVESTMENTS registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) are up 32.06% to P80.619 billion as of September from a year earlier, data from the state agency showed.
It’s the eve of the campaign period for the Barangay and SK elections. At the stroke of midnight, the streets and alleys of the metro will once again take the shape of a 3-dimensional collage, plastered from end to end with faces and promises of the nation’s smallest political unit.
Not only did the odd-even scheme fail in the past, it does not also give assurance it could resolve the perennial traffic problem on major thoroughfares in Metro Manila, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III said yesterday.
Child Protection Unit (CPU) Philippines will help 10,000 maltreated children annually as child abuse cases reached an alarming rate of 9,787 last year.
The inter-agency Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) on Wednesday said it would review its policy on mass housing amid the revenue lesion its loose definition has caused the government.
FORMER President turned Rep. Gloria Arroyo of the Second District of Pampanga has expressed opposition on the government’s planned massive expansion of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, a poverty reduction initiative that started under her administration in 2008. The former president was referring to the CCT initiative, which provides cash assistance to extremely poor…
Traffic problems in Metro Manila have cost the government $2 billion in economic losses. Citing a study made by the World Bank, Chairman Francis Tolentino of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Wednesday said that the losses could be recouped in part by the odd-even scheme for vehicles that he has decided to revive.
A STATE-RUN think tank on Wednesday recommended a fare hike of up to P20 for Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 to minimize the government’s multibillion-peso subsidy.
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is looking at new measures to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other deadly diseases in workplaces.
MANILA, Philippines – The government should adopt a national program for research and development (R&D), with better policies and a bigger budget.
While the new DepEd Secretary, Brother Luistro is getting acquainted with UNESCO during the ongoing Autumn Executive Board meeting in Paris, former DepEd undersecretary to Brother Andrew, Isagani Cruz was tasked to inform the media and the public how President Noy Aquino’s K-12 education plan would work out. Expecting an avalanche of arguments to follow,…
MANILA, Philippines – It’s payback time. Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo played out her role as opposition leader in grilling administration officials over their budget proposal.
Sports scientist asks Congress to make daily exercise mandatory MANILA, Philippines – An expert in molecular biology and sports science called Wednesday on lawmakers to enact legislation that would encourage daily physical exercises, including in workplaces, as a solution to the worsening problem of lifestyle diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
MANILA, Philippines – To ensure its scholars get employed, especially in the Information Technology (IT) industry, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) enters into partnerships with private sector organizations.
I am writing this column in Cebu City while in the thick of preparations for a conference dubbed as the biggest human resource event of the year: The 47th annual conference of the People Management Association of the Philippines. The conference opens at 2 p.m. today at the Cebu International Convention Center.
TO RECALL the first part of this topic, the World Bank’s latest report on the country, titled “The Philippines: Fostering More Inclusive Growth,” started its analysis of poverty in our country by asking: “Who are the poor, what are the characteristics of the poorest Filipinos?” The World Bank’s answer: first, the typical poor Filipino belongs…
A COMPREHENSIVE road map that will ensure the increase in the income of all Filipino farmers is the “sure-fire” way of reducing rural poverty, the University of Asia and the Pacific’s Center for Food and Agribusiness (UA&P-CFA) said in a paper.
FILIPINO migrant workers, mostly those undocumented, feel the brunt of foreign governments’ stringent economic measures resulting from the impact of the global financial crisis with continuing arrests in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while those in Malaysia are forced to use their passports as collateral to get loans to get by as they continue to…
UNITED NATIONS—More than a third of all women in the world have been forced into sex, beaten or abused by a partner or family member, a top UN official said Tuesday.
MANILA, Philippines—Employers have been given until mid-November to update their employees’ loan accounts to remove their delinquent status with the Social Security System, SSS chief executive Emilio de Quiros Jr. said Tuesday.
THE Philippine auto-manufacturing industry should formulate an “export strategy” to boost its regional competitiveness before the government can consider added incentives, Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo said on Tuesday.
FOOD production and even economic growth in Asia, including the Philippines, will be under threat owing to the expected 40-percent shortfall in water supply and demand in the region by 2030, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said.
A suspected chemical leak from a construction site downed a teacher and 14 students of a high school in Iloilo City Monday afternoon.
MANILA, Philippines — United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has cited the province of Albay as a model for good practices on disaster risk reduction for this Thurday’s commemoration of International Day for Disaster Reduction.
MANILA, Philippines – A second bill seeking to improve regulation of the credit card industry has been filed in Senate. Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. has filed Senate Bill 2492, which seeks to provide more transparency on interests and charges that consumers pay credit card firms.
SUCs urged to diversify sources of income MANILA, Philippines – The budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for 2011 has been cut by P400 million.
US-based investment bank Goldman Sachs revised its 2010 Philippine economic outlook saying the economy will grow 7.4 percent from 4.2 percent after the stronger-than-expected rebound in the first six months.
BRUSSELS, Belgium—Civil society groups that gathered in Brussels for the Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) have called for the cancellation of the free trade agreements between the European Union and the developing economies, particularly those with India and South Korea.
Manila, Philippines — Newly installed Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines Christopher Thornley never responded to the request of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the Associated Labor Unions (ALU) and the Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) for an appointment to receive the trade union statement on asbestos and make a brief response to…
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest trade group, is supporting a proposal for a 12-year primary and secondary schooling for children under the K-12 program of the Aquino administration.