THE Philippines’ flag carrier is besieged by a looming labor strike and complaints by travel agencies of unfair business practices.

In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, President Benigno Aquino 3rd laid down his plan to engage in more public-private partnerships to build roads and bridges, enhance our Navy, build agricultural facilities and fund his plans for reforms in education, health and other social services. His panacea seems to be hinged upon…

Malacañang on Wednesday seemed to have retreated on its claim that the previous Arroyo administration violated the law in connection with its treatment of the national budget. Budget and Management Undersecretary Mario Relampagos said that there was nothing illegal in the immediate past government’s spending of the general appropriations in the first six months of…

MANILA, Philippines – San Miguel Corp. (SMC), the biggest food and beverage company in Southeast Asia, is open to investments in nuclear power generation in line with its continued diversification into heavy industries.

During his campaign for the presidency, Candidate Noynoy offered a 10-point agenda for education. In his State of the Nation address last Monday, President Benigno Aquino III focused on three of these points, namely, the 12-year basic education cycle, additional classrooms, and GASTPE.

MANILA, Philippines – Dr. Emerlinda Ramos-Roman is on her fifth year as president of the University of the Philippines System (UPS). The noted lady educator is the first woman to head the country’s premier century-old state university.

MANILA, Philippines – A World Bank official has urged the Department of Education to make all public elementary and high schools in the country more accessible to children with disabilities.

(Part 2 of a series on Reproductive Health) In 1901, Dr. Maria Montessori gave up her medical practice to go back to school and travel to France and England, to pursue her vision of extending her initial discovery of the scientific education she discovered working with deficient children to normal children. It was the Instituto…

WARNING SHOT: What, or who, prompted President Noynoy Aquino to fire a warning shot across the bow of media in his State of the Nation Address last Monday?

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that three out of four Filipino adults expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the first nationwide automated elections last May 10.

The Communist Party of the Philippines yesterday rejected President Aquino’s proposed resumption of the long-stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the CPP-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) anchored on immediate ceasefire which is contrary to previous agreements.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang stood pat on the figures cited by President Aquino in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) and maintained that the previous administration was “fiscally irresponsible” and “immoral” by going on a spending spree during the first half of the year when no revenues were coming in.

MANILA, Philippines – Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s urban poor assistance program was a failure, the Commission on Audit said yesterday.

The government has scrapped moves to revive the mothballed 620-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant but nuclear energy remains an option, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said Tuesday.

In the first post-Martia Law congressional elections held in 1987, the senatorial candidates of the Cory Aquino administration almost swept the senatorial election.  Only two oppositionists, Joseph Estrada and Juan Ponce Enrile, won. Subsequently, Estrada shifted to the majority, leaving Enrile as the only member of the minority.

Senators have started getting committee chairmanships but many of them are grumbling that they are not getting a fair shake from the Senate leadership.

IMPORTS continued to grow in May as manufacturers cranked up production to meet the surging global demand for electronic products, data showed Tuesday.

The court puts a brake on the illicit practice of worker dispatch in manufacturing industry including the Hyundai Motors, which can cause a wave of class action.

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THE PHILIPPINES, which has been the world’s biggest rice importer in recent years, is now overstocked with the grain and will likely cut overseas orders dramatically, the government said yesterday.

EXPERTS ADVISED property developers to put up real estate investment trusts (REITs) now that inflation is stable and there are no firms going public, claiming investors would benefit from higher yields.

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INSTEAD of “tinkering” with labor policies to create more jobs, an expert from the University of the Philippines School of Economics (Upse) urged the Aquino administration to focus its efforts on improving the country’s anemic economic growth in order to create more employment opportunities.

THE PHILIPPINES has among the largest share of motorists in Asia and Europe that are fuel efficient, a survey by multinational oil company Shell found.

CEBU, Philippines – The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Central Visayas has rejected the twin petitions of the labor groups demanding for P100 and P128 across the board wage increases to workers.

CEBU, Philippines – Health officials yesterday confirmed that the number of persons found positive of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Cebu City has reached 150 from January to June 30 this year.

MANILA, Philippines – Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo is pushing the development of the tourism sector as his top priority, he told a meeting of some of the biggest business organizations in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is hoping that President Aquino will implement in the first 100 days of his administration various measures to create an environment conducive to increased investments in the country.

It is interesting that President “Noy” and his crew made special mention of the media by asking it’s members to “police its own ranks”. Knowing that P-Noy is very at ease with the media, one has to step back and wonder what exactly was the point in all that.

MANILA, Philippines – At least 6,000 Filipino workers are set to return home from war-torn Iraq upon the orders of the US government, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) reported yesterday.