Will LTO chief Virginia Torres insist on Friday’s bidding for a new driver’s license supplier, against superiors’ orders? If so, she might be the second friend-appointee of President Noynoy Aquino to bring him shame.

LONDON (AFP) – – Amnesty International on Wednesday accused world leaders at a UN summit of damaging the fight against global poverty through their failure to combat human rights violations.

The fiscal path of underspending taken by the Aquino administration and the possibility that it would further raise the 12 value added tax to improve its tax effort could derail the economic rebound being experienced by the Philippines, according to a study released Wednesday by the Metrobank Group.

POVERTY AMONG Americans is now at a record high. According to the latest report from the US Census Bureau, there were close to 44 million poor Americans last year, the highest recorded in 51 years. Our government has yet to release our own official poverty statistics for 2009, but as of last count in 2006,…

MANILA, Philippines – Female traffic enforcers were deployed by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) across the country’s roads and thoroughfares starting Monday. The LTO believes that the move will discourage erring motorists from either attempting to bribe the traffic enforcers or engage them in an argument.

WASHINGTON DC, United States—The United Nations and national governments are ill-prepared to tackle the rapidly evolving threats to world peace and security, a joint US-EU report released Monday says.

UNITED NATIONS  – Asia has slashed the number of people living in extreme poverty, but leads the world in malnourishment and is struggling to meet ambitious development goals set at the United Nations, a UN report said.

MANILA, Philippines—In need of workers from plumbers to carpenters to engineers, the provincial government of Manitoba, Canada on Tuesday morning signed an agreement with the labor department to deploy overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the province.

COTABATO, Philippines—The Philippines is to offer money and jobs to its militant-hit southern communities amid peace talks with Muslim rebels, an aide to President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday.

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Management of Philippine Airlines lashed back at disgruntled cabin workers for ‘forum shopping’ by filing case before the Commission on Human Rights even amidst ongoing mediation hearings at the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

Despite objections of teachers Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro remained adamant on his order of implementing a “no assignment on weekend policy” despite objectons from a group of teacher group about it.

MANILA, Philippines – The government successfully sold P8.5 billion worth of 91, 182, and 364-day Treasury bills (T-bills) yesterday although there was an uptick in the rate of the shorter-term paper because of the lack of supply in 91-day T-bills.

UNITED NATIONS – The statistics for maternal mortality have improved by 34 percent. That means a woman is no longer dying every minute, but one woman is still dying every minute and a half.

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Last week I decided to drop by the opening-day budget hearings of the Congressional appropriations committee. It was also my very first time to visit the Batasan compound, which I duly found to be pretty impressive, except for the lack of parking space.

Manila (20 September) — Senator Edgardo J. Angara pays tribute to the Filipino seafarers and maritime workers around the world in commemoration of the International Seafarer’s Week and the World Maritime Day yesterday.

PHILIPPINE Airlines will be suing the remaining 10 pilots who resigned abruptly despite reports they have left the country to work for foreign carriers, an official said over the weekend.

KUWAIT: A group of some 20 Filipino employees working with a private company in Kuwait lodged a complaint with the office of Philippine labor attach�, accusing their employer of non-payment of salaries, breach of contract and lying about legal residency in Kuwait. In a recent interview with the Kuwait Times, workers claimed that they were…

Noting less restiveness of workers, employers are backing a proposal for a two-tiered wage scheme to do away with mandated yearly minimum wage increases. “We may be eroding our advantage of having lower wages through our yearly minimum wage setting such that this discourages investments,” Edgardo Lacson, president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines…

MANILA, Philippines – After almost two years of extreme belt-tightening and drop in profit, most of the world’s executives now have a brighter outlook on the global economy, according to research by advisory firm McKinsey & Co.

MANILA, Philippines – Members of a labor union at the Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Monday lodged complaints of gender discrimination and ill treatment of female flight attendants against the beleaguered airline company, calling for the abolition of these erratic policies.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines said in a press release yesterday that Laurence Kevin Fishman, the American businessman who deserted and defrauded his Filipino employees of some P50 million in wages, should be forever banned from re-entering the Philippines.

DHAKA, Bangladesh—Global retailers fleeing China’s rising labor costs now find themselves facing growing pressure for higher wages in countries from Bangladesh to Cambodia, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.

A LAWMAKER yesterday raised misgivings on the proposed doubling of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) budget for next year, citing a “dole-out society” in the works with a higher allocation for the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.

DAVAO CITY — The Philippines should start strengthening trade with other Asian countries other than its current markets, China and Japan, a central bank consultant said here early last week.

Trans-Pacific Partnership best bet for Philippines THE PHILIPPINES may have to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal if it wants a trade pact with the United States, a visiting American official said on Friday.

PARIS – A vaginal gel failed to protect women against the AIDS virus, doctors said on Monday, reporting on a major clinical trial that enrolled more than 9,000 women.

The government has started penalizing senior citizens for its inability to raise revenues. A few days after Malacañang said it would not give priority to a proposal to remove the 12 percent value added tax (VAT) exemption enjoyed by the elderly, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) had stricken off such privilege on water and…

President Benigno Aquino 3rd has given marching orders to once and for all end within six years the vicious cycle of sea tragedies that plague the archipelago, an official said.