(Part 1 of a series on Reproductive Health) The population has reached 90 million. Seventy percent are poor and barely productive. Only five years remain to attain the 2015 UN Millennium Development Goals. The UN Global Monitoring Report 2010 foresees our failure in two goals: providing quality primary education for all; and decreasing maternal and…

MANILA, Philippines – The government yesterday came out with the revenue regulations pertaining to the tax privilege provisions of the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.

MANILA, Philippines – The newly appointed science and technology secretary intends to use his training and experience as an inventor and engineer to solve some of the country’s recurring problems like floods and traffic.

About four million Filipino households nationwide continue to experience hunger, with a rate that has remained at double-digits, according to the second quarter Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results released Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – With the new Aquino administration showing keen interest to develop nuclear energy as an alternative source of electricity, another Japanese company, Toshiba Corp., said it is willing to supply nuclear reactor facilities to the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – Acting National Economic and Development Authority Director General Augusto Santos said Tuesday the gross domestic product was expected to grow 6.5 to seven percent this year because of additional spending that the government would undertake.

MANILA, Philippines – Members of the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team said yesterday that the new administration under President Aquino should first focus on enhancing and improving its tax collection efficiency before introducing new tax measures as part of efforts to put its fiscal house in order.

MANILA, Philippines – The Aquino administration has inherited a budget gap of P196.7 billion in the first six months of the year, 28.2 percent more than the P153.4-billion budget deficit recorded in the same period last year.   

BANGKOK — In October 2008, when the world was reeling from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and job markets were freezing up everywhere, Akane Natori waltzed into a new position she liked. “Things went so smoothly after applying online, and before I knew it, I had the job,” said Ms. Natori, who was then a…

The World Bank and the regional development banks (ADB, AfDB, EBRD, IDB), collectively know as the multilateral development bank (MDBs), have agreed on harmonized mandatory labour standards requirements for construction projects they finance above a certain value. The specific language that the MDBs adopted is based on proposals made by BWI and the ITUC and…

The regional director of the Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday expressed fears that children are being used as child laborers in gold-rich areas in Compostela Valley Province.

A new International Labor Organization (ILO) book launched on Wednesday in Geneva and Manila suggested that the multibillion-dollar business process industry (BPO), generally call centers, should now be open to listening workers’ “collective voice” and engage “social dialogue” to improve working conditions in their “high-strain” workplaces.

Dagupan City (21 July) — The Department of Labor and Employment-Regional Office 1 is set to implement an intensive inspection strategy program called Project Labor Enforcement and Action Program (Project LEAP) starting August this year.

June 30 was a total high for me. Although I watched the inaugural rites only on television, I was in awe and proud to be a Filipino. And hopeful that finally righteousness will reign in our country. I know in my heart that integrity, courage and loyalty to God and country are the criteria in…

MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court recently affirmed its 2007 ruling that sugar plantations are covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, or Republic Act No. 6657.

Over 20% in the last three quarters — SWS HUNGER CONTINUES to haunt many Filipino families, with the Social Weather Stations’ (SWS) overall measure barely improving and more claiming to have frequently lacked anything to eat.

VIENNA – Fewer than 10% of injecting drug users (IDUs) get practical help to prevent them from spreading HIV to others, according to research presented at the world AIDS conference on Tuesday.

BEIJING — That warm glow and soft purring emanating from South Korea was the International Monetary Fund (IMF) trying, yet again, to put the Asian financial crisis behind it.

Despite the effort by the country’s call center companies to alter the outsourcing industry, turnover rate in the country’s call center has gotten so worst that it hits 60 to 80 percent, according to the Call Center Association Philippines (CCAP).

The EcoWaste Coalition, a waste and pollution watchdog, held a mock wake called “Kaluksa” in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Quezon City recently following the death on June 24 of a one-year-old baby girl who mistakenly drank silver cleaner in Paco, Manila.

A car nearly rammed into the side of ours as we were driving home along NLEX after a weekend sortie. The other car had been abruptly crossing from the rightmost lane to the leftmost where we were, rudely cutting other motorists, and didn’t slow down until we honked the horn at him. He would’ve hit…

In 2008 Winston Garcia caused the filing of libel charges against several newspapermen, including this columnist, who had echoed questions raised by public school teachers against him.

MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has upgraded its economic forecast for developing Asia to 7.9 percent from the previous 7.5 percent after first-quarter data showed broad-based growth in the region.

MANILA, Philippines – Monetary authorities believe that there is no compelling need to tweak its key policy rates due to benign inflation outlook which prompted the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to slash this year and next year’s inflation forecasts.

MANILA, Philippines – The aggregate net earnings of listed firms in the first quarter this year surged 113.9 percent on improved performances across all sectors, data released by the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The mining industry accused yesterday the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) as being against the development of the country’s God-given natural resources after the prelates asked President Aquino to put an end to large-scale mining.

MANILA, Philippines – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) is set to forge an agreement with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to put in place aggressive adaptation measures to protect communities from strong typhoons this rainy season.

MANILA, Philippines – He did it before; can he do it again? With his appointment as Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) secretary, corporate executive Jose “Ping” de Jesus has been pulled back to government service with a tough task: to perform once again the miracle of cleaning up a huge bureaucracy the way he…

MANILA, Philippines – Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson yesterday blamed administrators of the Angat dam in Bulacan for the water crisis in the concession area of Maynilad Water in the western sector of Metro Manila.

The government plans to strengthen the sugar industry by increasing output within the next five years in preparation for the zero tariff regime in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by 2015.