UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration and 14 members of the U.S. Congress are urging the U.N. Economic and Social Council to accredit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission so it can work at the United Nations.
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – The 30-minute blackout that hit the islands of Negros and Panay on Friday morning was triggered by the electrocution of an engineer employed by a subcontractor of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines.
Reducing the worst forms of child labor in the country is the goal of a new project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the International Labor Organization-International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC).
A tense situation is brewing at the port of Dumaguete where workers are raising some issues against the arrastre operator.
Sometime last year, the Supreme Court come out with a ruling penned by Associate Justice Presbiterio Velasco that banks and lending institutions, including those issuing credit cards, cannot and should not charge more than 2 percent monthly, or 24 percent annually, for interest.
Investor confidence in the second quarter reached levels unseen in two years based on the quarterly ING Investor Dashboard Sentiment Index which showed 157 points for the country in the second quarter, second only in the region to India which got a score of 172 in the survey.
BIG time drug companies led by Mercury Drug are depriving persons with disabilities (PWD) the 20-percent discount for their medicine purchase as mandated by law, a number of PWDs revealed Thursday.
Senator cites loss of P100B in last 2 years The exemption of senior citizens from the 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) was “idiotic,” Sen. Sergio Osmeña 3rd said on Thursday. According to Osmeña, the government lost about P100 billion in the last two years “from all those idiotic tax exemptions that Congress has passed.”
The Aquino administration has filed its first tax evasion case against a pawnshop owner. In a briefing, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares said the agency is suing William Villarica for paying only an income tax of P25,607 from 1998 to 2009, even though he can afford to buy and maintain sports luxury…
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday announced it would shift to a medium-term inflation target, as it kept policy rates steady for the ninth time on the back of manageable price increases. In a press briefing, BSP Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said the Monetary Board decided to keep the overnight borrowing or reverse…
Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB) spokesperson Dolores Balladares told GMANews.TV in a phone interview that Hong Kong’s Legislative Council shot down an amendment to the proposed Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) that would have included foreign domestic workers.
THE BANKING industry’s bad debts remained below 4 percent of their total loan portfolio for the 20th month in a row, easing by 0.03 point to 3.37 percent in May from the April level.
FOREIGN ELECTRONICS and technology experts are confident that even if the world has not yet fully recovered from the recession, consumers would go on buying gadgets and investing in technology.
MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Sergio Osmeña III is supporting the call of the Department of Finance to review the numerous tax breaks granted by Congress over the past two years.
MANILA, Philippines – National organizations of persons with disabilities warned yesterday they are planning to file class suits against some government institutions as well as private corporations for their alleged discrimination and failure to comply with laws upholding the rights of PWDs.
The new Health Department Secretary Enrique Ona obviously has so many other pressing matters needing attention of his department. Undoubtedly so many people are getting sick and are dying because of poor health services and inadequate facilities, not to mention the unavailability of basic medicines to prevent the spread of communicable diseases for a healthier…
MANILA, Philippines – Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman said she is happy to return to work in “one of the most committed bureaucracies” and vowed to further improve the government’s existing poverty alleviation programs.
DALY CITY, California – New nursing graduates are advised to be more patient and flexible in order to find jobs in the US. Jaeann Milan graduated in 2008 with a nursing degree from the Philippines. She was expecting to find work right away when she went back to the US. Instead, she found herself applying…
MANILA, Philippines—The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Oxford University on Wednesday launched a new index to measure poverty levels which they said give a “multidimensional” picture of people living in hardship, and could help target development resources more effectively.
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DESPITE the Philippines is considered as one of the third largest English speaking countries in Asia yet the report released by the US State Department, in its “2007 Investment Climate Statement” this month cited that the “English language proficiency, while still better than in other Southeast Asian nations, is declining in the Philippines.”
The domestic BPO units in Europe and USA are making a mass migration. The call centers were running smoothly before the downturn and then ran out of steam during the lean months. Finally they are getting back on their feet, slowly but steadily. However, the finances are still low, the chips are still down and…
Inow share with you, readers, my speech on the topics “the Role of CHED in Setting Global Standards for Higher Education in the Philippines” during the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) Institute Symposia and Fora on July 9, 2010 with the theme “Looking Global . . . . Taking Actions . . .…
MANILA, Philippines – Their physical handicap it appears, is not the biggest battle confronting persons with disabilities (PWDs). It is the government’s inability to implement the laws that protect their rights that is their biggest challenge.
Nueva Ecija—The chief of the country’s lead agency in rice research and development based here is optimistic that the country will soon become self-sufficient in rice despite a backslide in agricultural production brought by the recent onslaught of El Niño.
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FRANCHISERS and their prospective investors should tread carefully as the global economic recovery remains fragile and consumers have become harder to please.
THE World Bank on Wednesday raised its economic growth forecast for the Philippines starting this year until 2012, citing strong private and public spending as well as the recovery of global trade. In the latest issue of the Philippines Quarterly Update, the Washington-based lender revised upwards its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 4.4…
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday said that it will push four key areas in a ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) next week in Vietnam.
CEBU, Philippines – Another miner died after he was buried alive while working in the coal mine in the mountainous part of Danao City last Monday evening.