If you don’t know the meaning of the word “inchoate,” you join many readers of The New York Times (NYT) who have looked up the word and many others in the NYT’s website built-in American Heritage dictionary. According to a feature published in The Daily Tribune (source not mentioned) “inchoate,” “profligacy,” “sui generis” and “austerity”…

Next year, the controversial P10-billion PEACe Bonds, or Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates which implicated a nongovernment organization that helped put former President Gloria Arroyo in power are set to mature, requiring the government to repay some P35 billion in obligations. Sold in October 2001, the 10-year bonds benefited the Caucus of NGO Networks (CODE-NGO)…

The civil society leaders behind the PEACe Bonds are stoutly denying any claims of graft, greed and favoritism in their successful implementation of their plan to receive a large commission for selling bonds to groups willing to lend money for the use of the Philippine government. Danilo Songco, Code-NGO’s national coordinator at that time—in the…

Critics ask where did the P10B obtained in 2001 go? The return of Corazon “Dinky” Soliman to public prominence as secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development made the media resurrect a controversy involving an organization that she headed until just before she joined the Cabinet of former President Gloria Arroyo in 2001.

With only five years left into fulfilling the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, the agency has identified eradication of extreme poverty as an “endangered” goal for the country since most Asian nations “made significant progress in combating [extreme] poverty” except for the Philippines, an official of the United Nations Information…

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines and the International Labor Organization are teaming up anew in a new project that seeks to reduce the worst forms of child labor by as much as 75 percent, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda D. Baldoz said over the weekend.

MANILA, Philippines – Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras berated yesterday the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for lack of transparency in reporting the true situation of the country’s power transmission system.

MANILA, Philippines – With a little over a week before his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) sent a letter to President Aquino asking him to stop the practice of large-scale mining in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – A militant party-list lawmaker called on newly appointed Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) chairman Daniel Lacson to immediately scrap the “unjust and illegal” policies of his predecessor and refund P1.7 billion in deductions from teachers’ benefits.

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THE Supreme Court (SC) estimates that by next year, all lower courts in Metro Manila should be using the computerized system in encoding, docketing and raffling of cases.

RETAIL PRICES in Metro Manila rose faster at 3.9 percent year-on-year in May, according to the National Statistics Office. According to the NSO, it was the fastest rate of rise since January.

How do you calculate the almost exact number of employees that an organization needs for business expansion as a result of an improved national economy? — Yellow Submarine.

WASHINGTON — Private recruitment agencies manage much of the flow of the 200,000 Filipino workers who head annually to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is the third largest destination for Filipino migrants after the United States and Saudi Arabia.

2012-2014 target also announced as BSP keeps policy rates unchanged INFLATION FORECASTS for 2010 and 2011 were cut anew yesterday by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which continued to keep policy rates unchanged as expected.

THE GOVERNMENT must increase infrastructure spending and cut red tape instead of beefing up investment incentives to improve the country’s attractiveness, the local partner of a Swiss-based competitiveness ranking body said in a forum on Friday.

THE Aquino administration has to arrest the 14-year deterioration in the Philippines’ competitiveness by aggressively improving the country’s infrastructure, particularly its power sector, according to the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Policy Center.

Dear PAO, I just have a concern regarding survivorship claim.  I want to ask if a common law wife of a pensioner has a right to claim the survivorship spouse claim or specifically survivorship pension? Here is the situation, my father was a pensioner. He was married to his first wife and had 4 siblings…

The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has warned commercial establishments in Metro Manila to comply with the new minimum wage rates for their workers or face sanctions.

With only five years left into fulfilling the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, the agency has identified eradication of extreme poverty as an “endangered” goal for the country since most Asian nations “made significant progress in combating [extreme] poverty” except for the Philippines, an official of the United Nations Information…

More than 100 Filipinos, mostly in the Middle East and China, are facing death for committing various crimes, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday said.

The Department of Justice has issued a memorandum laying down the “standard operating procedure for prosecutors nationwide with respect to their disposition” of cases involving political and media killings.

BATANGAS , Philippines  – Two laborers were killed while seven others were injured when a steel scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in San Pablo City, Laguna yesterday morning, police said.

MANILA, Philippines – Investor sentiment in the Philippines rose for the fourth consecutive quarter to reach an all-time high in the April to May period, making the country the second strongest driver in the Asia Pacific region, a survey by Dutch financial giant ING showed.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said yesterday net inflow of foreign portfolio investments surged 245 percent in the first half of the year as investors gobbled up more government securities and pumped in more money into the local equities markets.

The Philippines will participate in the upcoming ministerial meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Vietnam where it will seek support from, and work together with ASEAN, in addressing national challenges under a new leadership.

WITH THE COMING OF THE rainy season, and images of the disaster caused by last year’s Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng still fresh on the minds of many, the government agencies tasked with relief operations are on their toes.

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – At least 700 workers here will lose their jobs after a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer announced the closure of one of its largest divisions in this free port.

IT IS not unusual to see, read or hear about environmental problems these days. Pollution has become so common that we appear resigned to the fact that this is part of modernization.

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