US pushing UN status for gay rights group

Published by rudy Date posted on July 17, 2010

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.

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Engineer’s electrocution blacks out Panay and Negros

Published by rudy Date posted on July 17, 2010

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.

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Project targets worst forms of child labor

Published by rudy Date posted on July 17, 2010

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).

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Tension brews at port

Published by rudy Date posted on July 17, 2010

A tense situation is brewing at the port of Dumaguete where workers are raising some issues against the arrastre operator.

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A landmark case

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Investor confidence climbs to 2-year high

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Drugstores deprive PWD of discounts

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Seniors’ VAT perk ’idiotic’

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.”

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Revenue bureau files tax evasion case against pawnshop owner

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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…

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BSP keeps key interest rates steady

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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…

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HK excludes domestics from minimum wage law

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Banks’ NPL ratio down to 3.37%

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Consumers to give up everything else but tech

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Osmeña supports DOF call to review tax exemptions

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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PWDs mull class suit vs government, businesses

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Wrong focus

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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…

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The President’s Men and Women: Dinky happy to be back in DSWD

Published by rudy Date posted on July 16, 2010

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.

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Nursing grads must be flexible to find jobs in US

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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…

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UN, Oxford unveil new index to measure poverty

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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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Poor English – a Threat to the Philippine Call Centers?

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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.”

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The Great BPO Migration!

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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…

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Global standards for higher education (First of four parts)

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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 . . .…

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Disabled ask Aquino gov’t to recognize rights

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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.

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Rice self-sufficiency goal possible by 2013 – PHILRICE

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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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Fragile global recovery seen a risk for franchise businesses

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

FRANCHISERS and their prospective investors should tread carefully as the global economic recovery remains fragile and consumers have become harder to please.

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World Bank lifts RP growth forecast

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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…

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Economic, rights issues top RP’s Asean list

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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.

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Another miner dies in Danao

Published by rudy Date posted on July 15, 2010

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.

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July 2025

Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”

Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.

Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar.  Reject Military!

#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideosturesVideos

Time to support & empower survivors. Time to spark a global conversation. Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!

July


3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 Ju
ly – International Plastic Bag Free Day
 
5 July –
World Youth Skills Day 
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day 
17 July – World Day for
International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons 


Monthly Observances:

Schools Safety Month

Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month

Weekly Observances:

Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week

 

Daily Observances:

First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines

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