NEW YORK (AP) – Economists say the US recovery continued during the second quarter of this year with more businesses hiring workers and fewer cutting jobs, but the pace of growth has slowed, a new survey shows.

VIENNA (AP) – World leaders lack the political will to ensure that everyone infected with HIV and AIDS gets treatment, the head of a meeting dedicated to the disease said Sunday.

ATLANTA (AP) – Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind.

The Philippines is a nation serious about its commitments and which harmonizes its national interests with its international responsibilities.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Agriculture’s high value commercial crops program (HVCC) seeks to expand rubber production and entice more foreign investors by opening up new areas in Palawan.

MANILA, Philippines—-The value of private-sector construction projects in the first quarter of 2010 jumped 59.5 percent year-on-year to P47.3 billion, according to the National Statistics Office.

DAEJON, SOUTH KOREA—The crippling financial crisis in Asia more than a decade ago was said to have turned from bad to worse because the governments in the region were forced to adopt the wrong foreign policies.

THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry is positioning its yet-to-be-finalized guidelines for the growing franchising industry as more voluntary than mandatory.

Illicit list? Arroyo’s 977 ‘midnight’ appointees LAWYERS at the Palace have been burning the midnight oil scrutinizing nearly a thousand appointments made by then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in various government agencies, including state-run corporations, from January this year until she bowed out of office on June 30.

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Thousands of Filipino domestic helpers are still getting jobs in Jordan despite a two-year-old deployment ban there for such occupation, a Philippine Embassy official said.

MANILA, Philippines – The vice-chairman of the Climate Change Commission on Monday warned that using foreign loans or grants dedicated to climate change to plug the budget deficit could undermine the entire Philippine climate mitigation and adaptation strategy.

The 18th International   AIDS Conference started this Sunday, July 18, 2010  in Vienna. Over 20,000 people working in the area of HIV, including policymakers, legislators, researchers and people living with HIV from 190 countries are joining the conference. The theme for this year’s conference is Rights Here Rights Now, which emphasizes the central importance of…

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Mainstream media have followed up PeNoy Aquino’s announce-ment of his Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) privatization plan with massive propaganda. Their argument is that since any game of chance is immoral and unproductive, and since Pagcor, the largest gambling operation run by government, is riddled with corruption, that state-owned enterprise needs to be privatized.…

THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) raised its forecast for exports and imports growth this year on the back of the better-than-expected expansion in the first quarter. BSP Deputy Gov. Diwa Guini-gundo told reporters that exports would likely grow by 15 percent, up from an earlier forecast of 12 percent.

The change at the top of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) offers new hope for thousands of past and present state employees. Under various computerization programs instituted by Winston Garcia, GSIS president and general manager from 2001 to last month, grave problems have hampered services and pension payments to countless fund members.

Dear PAO, I am an employee of an agency deployed in a company to which the former has a contract with. Accordingly, the contract of employer-agency will not be renewed by the company where I am deployed. Apparently, all of us deployed employees will be absorbed by the incoming agency.

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Amilitant transport group has expressed optimism that the administration of President Benigno Aquino 3rd would be more open in addressing issues hounding the transport sector, particularly repeal of the oil deregulation law and permanent junking of the controversial Radio Frequency Identification System (RFID) of the Land Transportation Office (LTO). The Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng…

MANILA, Philippines – The government must remove focus on the grant of incentives as investors are more interested on the ease of doing business in the country, an Asian Institute of Management (AIM) official said.

MANILA, Philippines – The number of Filipino nurses seeking employment in the United States continues to drop dramatically, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) yesterday called on the new chairman of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to fully disclose the condition of the fund’s Global Investment Program (GIP).

MANILA, Philippines – Business executives in the Philippines are most insecure that their operations might move to other countries.

MANILA, Philippines – No stranger to the tourism industry, Secretary Alberto Lim vows to provide more tourism-driven jobs in the countryside to contribute to the government’s efforts to eradicate poverty.

Have you ever experienced bullying in the office, avoiding a coworker because of a discourteous behavior or worse a boss who chews you or a co-worker out on a regular basis? Then perhaps we could relegate this to desk rage?

As we write today, the business of doing business continues to change at head-snapping speed. In many parts of the world, employer-employee relationships are continually influenced by the dictates of the market. Where we sit, employer-employee relationship continues to be governed by rules that were set almost 40 years ago.

Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—While the world’s leaders are scratching their heads and expensive think tanks wrack their brains trying to find answers to global warming and food security, a nongovernment organization here is propagating a solution that hit these two problems at one go, but has not talked much about its successes.

Here’s one which the Office of the President and the soon-to-be-organized Truth Commission and even the fact-finding unit of the Ombudsman may want to look into soonest.