The Tahanang Walang Hagdanan located in Cainta, Rizal is perhaps the premiere private institution in the country that has championed the cause of people with disabilities (PWDs).

During my years of writing a sex and relationship column for a men’s magazine, the question I always get from men, was: “Does size really matter?” Of course, I got a bunch of other variations—some colorful and some mathematical (think in terms of ratio and proportion)—of that inquiry. That question would usually come on the…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday vowed he would intervene if US unemployment worsens, amid evidence of a jobless and tepid recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – A helper died and a cook suffered severe burns on his face and both arms in a 30-minute fire that broke out at a canteen in Malabon City Thursday afternoon.

It is precisely the nightmare that haunts investors considering putting in billions of dollars in the Philippine economy. The Bloomberg newsflash read: “Mining ban looming in the Philippines.”

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo is the only member of the Arroyo Cabinet who was retained by President Aquino.

Some 2,300 leaders and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) appealed to the Supreme Court (SC) to take a second look on the 27-year-old case and decide on the full merits of their petition, seeking to enforce National Labor Relations Commission’s order for the Texas-based giant group employer to pay all the 1,975 OFW-petitioners more than US…

MANILA, Philippines—It should disturb the nation, not just the new administration, that total hunger increased by 1 percentage point compared to the second quarter of 2009, and severe hunger was also higher compared to the first quarter of 2010 because the second quarter encompassed a presidential election which should have been a major redistributive event.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—At the height of the election campaign in May, a tarpaulin showing top communist rebel Leoncio Pitao, or Commander Parago, shaking hands with then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City was burned by hard-core anticommunist Pastor Jun Alcover and retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan—right at the bosom of insurgency in Paquibato District.

MANILA, Philippines—As the administration of President Benigno Aquino III settles down and braces for work for the next six years, a review of the latest National Nutrition Survey (NNS) might be imperative to guide it in one of its proclaimed crusades—to reduce poverty.

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Two men filed a complaint for grave misconduct before the Office of the Ombudsman for the Visayas against the members of the barangay Basak police in Mandaue City.

The Indian BPO scene is ably challenged from different frontiers. The primary competition in the call center industry that they are facing comes from the countries like Philippines and those in Latin America and Africa. What makes these countries challenge the domination of India in the business process outsourcing industry?

HANOI – Canada on Friday signed a friendship and non-aggression pact with Southeast Asia, saying the region has made progress on human rights.

International labor group calls for better work conditions, standards A new International Labor Organization book launched Wednesday in Geneva and Manila suggests that the multibillion-dollar business process industry (BPO) – call centers – should be open to listening to workers’ collective voice and engaging in social dialogue to improve working conditions in their high-strain workplaces.

A call center job requires you to do customer service tasks on a remote basis using latest technologies. This is broadly classified into inbound and outbound calls. In the former, calls are received and the latter involves making of calls. This kind of job can be home-based but most of them have an on-site location.

Saying he has marching orders from Malacañang to create more jobs, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Gregory L. Domingo said achieving 3 million jobs in five years would be achievable.

WASHINGTON—Shrugging off investors’ fears of a double-dip recession and punishing deflation, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke predicted on Wednesday that a moderate US economic expansion is likely to continue despite numerous threats to growth.

BACK-OFFICE outsourcing is creating “reasonably good” jobs in poorer countries, but staff are stressed and some work conditions have to be improved, a United Nations study said Wednesday.

The nation’s labor force is it’s most productive assetRepublicans favor the minimum wage — the smaller the minimum wage, the better. — Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1943-1953)

FACED with limited resources, the government will be doing a “triage” in determining which industries will get the support to survive, and those that will be allowed to die an “orderly” death.

INVESTMENT FLOWS into the Philippines and the rest of Asia will likely strengthen this year but governments are advised to favor low-carbon projects to address climate change amid the expected surge in economic activity, a United Nations agency said in a report released yesterday.

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines – Two men died in an acetylene tank explosion on a fishing boat off a coastal village on Jolo island, police reported Friday.

I wrote this piece in July 2004 in the hope that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would listen and use it in her State-of-the-Nation Address. She didn’t, it can all be said again, with some amendments to bring it up to date and adapt it better to a new president. Let’s hope I won’t be able to…

New Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo who was supposedly appointed by President Aquino to a one-year term, did not waste time in earning the displeasure of his constituents in the local domestic industries who are now up in arms over his alleged sweeping statement that greatly favors imports and sub-standard products.

The Philippines is keen on joining the negotiations for the inter-regional economic integration as well as starting informal talks with the European Union (EU) for a possible bilateral trade pact, the Trade department said.

THE business process outsourcing (BPO) industry received billions of pesos in financial support from the government in 2008, according to official statistics. Data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) showed that total subsidies granted to BPO firms amounted to P1.014 billion.

No amount of money can buy the joy that a toy can bring to a child. This was the view expressed Thursday by the local distributor of Barbie dolls and other high-end toys who also said that the toy market in the country continues to flourish despite the hard times. Myrna Yao, Richwell Trading Corp.…

MANILA, Philippines – Employees of the Bataan Economic Zone appealed yesterday to President Aquino to review the midnight appointments of the chairman and board members of the newly created Authority of the Freeport Area of Bataan (AFAB) in Mariveles town which they claimed hastily took over the freeport a day before President Aquino assumed his…

The COMELEC continues to have a badly damaged reputation simply because most of its collective decisions seem to go beyond ordinary human imagination even if stretched to the limit. Its recent ruling on the Ang Galing Pinoy Party list nominee who will assume a seat in the House of Representatives is the latest example of…