THE EXPORT Development Act must be amended to firm up funding for marketing programs and punish government agencies that impede the sector’s progress, Export Development Council (EDC) officials said.

DAEJEON – Asian financial policymakers must brace for possible further shocks given risks to the global economy such as the eurozone turmoil, the International Monetary Fund chief said Monday.

Confidence in Aquino substantial but few pledges expected to be met FILIPINOS’ expectations of the Aquino presidency are optimistic yet at the same time practical, results of a new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey indicate.

The Catholic Church Hierarchy in the Philippines is strongly opposing the introduction of sex education in the public schools. They say it will encourage youth to engage in premarital and promiscuous sex, learn about contraception and lead immoral lives. Sex education, they say, is the duty and responsibility of the parents not the governments. It…

AN industry group wants discretionary powers for the body that would oversee the implementation of the newly issued Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Development Program (CMVDP). Benjamin Sevilla, Philippine Automotive Competitiveness Council Inc. (PACCI) executive director, told reporters on Friday that the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of CMVDP should be drafted in a way that it…

THE Philippine central bank said it would review this year’s forecast for remittances sometime in the latter part of the third quarter given indications that money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFW) may have peaked. “We are sticking to that forecast for now. Later this year we are going to review the forecast, maybe…

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ruled that the two nominees of Ang Kasangga party-list group cannot sit in the House of Representatives because they are not members of the marginalized sector.

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MANILA, Philippines – The International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN-sanctioned institution, is likely to be invited to reevaluate the study conducted by Korea Electric Power Co. (Kepco) on the possibility of reviving the Philippines’ first nuclear facility in Bataan.

MANILA, Philippines — An association of Filipino teachers based in Louisiana, US, received Saturday a prestigious award from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an education sector labor union with almost one million members.

MANILA, Philippines – Vehicle importers are wrong to ask the government to recall the Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Development Plan (MVDP) because of a typographical error in the publication of the Executive Order, the Board of Investments (BOI) said.

The last topic GMA discussed with P-Noy inside the car on their way to the Quirino grandstand was her concern on education. Well, she chose a universal topic to talk about in an uncomfortable moment. It is a subject that people are deeply interested in as we all agree that education is and must be…

3RD IN AQUINO’S FIRST 10 DAYS MANILA, Philippines—An elementary school teacher and member of the party-list group ACT Teachers was killed over the weekend, making him the third member of a leftist group to fall victim to alleged extra-judicial killings in the first 10 days of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.

Pregnant women lined up for free goodies during a commercial promo at a shopping mall yesterday as the Philippines marked World Population Day. Many of those women will need much more help in the course of their pregnancy until they give birth. And they will need continuing help as they try to raise their children…

MANILA, Philippines – Seven wage boards nationwide are discussing pending petitions ranging from P50 to P128.60 across-the-board wage increases, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

New measures are being prepared to boost the protection of household service workers (HSWs) who are working or are about to work abroad. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz vowed to move decisively in reviewing the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s guidelines on the matter.

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THE SOCIAL Security System (SSS) has collected a total of P212.88 million from a program that forgives employers who failed to remit the premiums of their employees, a statement read yesterday.

VIEWPOINT He works for a legislative strengthening project in Afghanistan funded by USAID and implemented by the State University of New York. He may be reached at vcuyco@yahoo.com.

HONG KONG – They held elections within days of each other: The Philippines, a lively democracy where politicians get shot dead in the street and Britain, the rock solid ‘mother of all parliaments’.

Bangko Sentral is confident it can manage the inflationary pressures of an economic growth of up to 8 percent, as long as the government does not resort to huge borrowings and wasteful spending.

MANILA, Philippines – Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. cringes at being called the “Little President.” He does not intend to strut around and make people know the hat he’s wearing, no matter how flattering it may be sometimes.

President Aquino III’s move to form a Truth Commission that will investigate Gloria M. Arroyo’s alleged wrongdoings committed in nine years of her presidency raises public expectations way above government’s ability to meet. Right now, there are courses of action that can be taken by independent groups serious with the prosecution of the discredited former…

Been rejected over and over? Maybe you’re looking in the wrong places Not everyone who began a job search last January has a job now, and chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’ve been rejected, or want to find a better job than the one you have. we looked over the Classifieds’ archives over…

Don’t let them get you – and your career – down Workplace bullies come in all shapes. forms and sizes. You’ve most likely encountered bullies at some point in your life, maybe at work or way back when you were still in school.

An incentive package that is skewed to attract investors to locate in the poorer areas in the country would be the focused of the refinements of the old Fiscal Incentives Harmonization Bill that Senator Ralph Recto is going to refile in the Senate.

HOUSTON—Good employees are hard to find. So more companies are figuring, why not rehire the former workers we like?

CAR sales rose 37.1 percent to 82,147 units in the six months to June as a result of higher consumer confidence and attractive financing packages, a group said Friday.