BACOLOD City, Philippines —Vice President and housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) chairman Jejomar Binay vowed yesterday to review policies and institute initiatives toward a more sustainable housing sector.

THE PHILIPPINES needs to implement more measures to improve accessibility of financial services to levels at par with those of neighboring countries, according to a survey conducted by the World Bank and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).

THE PHILIPPINES will miss all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) if lawmakers will fail to pass laws in aid of fiscal reforms, which had been languishing in Congress for several years, according to a non-government organization.

TOILET SHORTAGE IN SCHOOLS MANILA, Philippines—It’s not uncommon to hear pupils say “May I go home Ma’am” in public schools, especially in Metro Manila. Good thing their homes are just a walking distance away.

MANILA, Philippines — The 13 overseas Filipino workers who have filed a case of human trafficking against the Taiwanese company AV Tech and its broker won ten out of 12 demands, according to a migrant workers’ rights group said.

BEIRUT, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Lebanese courts are failing to hold employers accountable for abusing migrant domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday in Beirut, where many maids face severe mistreatment and some are driven to suicide.

THE Philippines’ vast area of untapped mineral resources can be converted to multiple investment opportunities in the areas of exploration, development and mineral processing, trade secretary Gregory L. Domingo said.

JOB AVAILABILITY INDEX GROWTH in online job postings slowed in August from a year ago, still reflecting cautious employer sentiment. The Job Availability Index’s statistical measure of monthly job placements at Jobstreet.com rose by 17.8% last month, slower than August 2009’s 78.6%.

9/9/2010 – The world economic recovery may be slowing faster than previously anticipated, according the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Assessment. Growth in the Group of Seven countries is expected to be around  1½ per cent on an annualized basis in the second half of 2010 compared with the previous estimate of around 2½ per cent…

Despite their promises to push for the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Congress leaders on Wednesday were noncommittal on the approval of the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill. In an interview after the ceremonial handover of the Citizens’ Report on the MDGs held at the House of Representatives, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile…

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

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MANILA, Philippines—The poverty situation in the Philippines is “much worse” that the government is prepared to admit in its 2010 progress report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the nongovernment Social Watch Philippines (SWP) said Wednesday.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—The officers and employees of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) have been ordered to report in writing their acquisition of property in any housing projects of the Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corp.

14 September 2010 – Premature withdrawal of macroeconomic stimulus measures in developed countries in the face of budget deficits may trigger a deflationary spiral in the global economy, with attendant slumps in growth and employment, a major United Nations trade agency warned today.

WASHINGTON—No child should have to choose between putting food on the table and getting a proper education, actress Eva Longoria said Wednesday calling for more rights for the youngest US farm workers.

The secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Devlopment has been getting a lot of flak lately about the more-than-doubling of the DSWD 2011 budget to finance the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer program, known locally as the 4Ps or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. The objections which arise from various sectors — religious, activists,…

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) has initiated the development of an education curriculum that was designed to meet the learning needs of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) communities.

(Special to the BusinessMirror) The contract to finance and implement the construction of a mass-transit line along Edsa, the Philippines’ busiest thoroughfare, was drawn up on August 8, 1997, between the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Metro Rail Transit Corp. (MRTC).

THE Philippines is fast-becoming a “mining haven” with $14 billion (P619.64 billion) in projected investments from 2009 to 2015 and $11.1 billion (P491.29 billion) in annual revenues starting 2017, according to Sergio R. Ortiz-Luis Jr., president of the Philippine Exporters Federation (PEF).

IN order for the Philippines to finance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), civil society organizations (CSOs) believe that pursuing the debt for MDG swap scheme can help the Philippines address financing gaps.

Inflation and interest rates will drop over the next 12 months, according to consumers in latest confidence survey of the central bank. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas assistant Gov. Maria Cyd Tuano-Amador noted that the consumer confidence index in the third quarter improved to -14 percent from -28.7 percent a quarter earlier.

THE mining industry continues to grow stronger with the continuous flow of investments in the mining sector, with the big players bullish about sustaining growth with a favorable investment climate under the new administration, according to a top industry leader.

Only 1 percent of the extrajudicial killings during the nine years of the Arroyo administration and the first two months of the Aquino administration have been resolved in court, a recent study showed. According to the report by human rights lawyer Al A. Parreño in partnership with the Asia Foundation, only four of the 305…

THE number of jobless Filipinos fell at its fastest pace in nearly two years with the economy growing nearly 8 percent. The National Statistics Office (NSO) on Wednesday said that unemployment went down to 6.9 percent as of July, the lowest since October 2008. A year ago the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent.

CIVIL Service Commissioner Francisco Duque said Wednesday he had recommended to President Benigno Aquino 3rd not to fire 2,254 government officials on October 31, the extension deadline he gave under Memorandum Circulars 1 and 2 to those perceived to have been extended “midnight appointments” by the former Arroyo administration.

MANILA, Philippines – Remittances sent home by overseas Filipino workers breached the $10-billion mark after expanding by 7.1 percent in the first seven months of the year due to the continued strong demand for Filipino manpower worldwide, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday that the number of jobless Filipinos had declined by 200,000 as the country recovers from the effects of the global financial crisis.

Or three reasons to do it differently The Asian Development Bank is loaning the Philippine government $400,000 million to implement it’s conditional cash transfer program, known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). The conditional health and education cash grants will be provided to poor households by the DSWD, to mothers and/orpregnant women of eligible…