Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. Report from Sweden. Another call is coming in from a customer to a modern call centre in Malmö in southern Sweden. The caller wants to discuss insurance, and the call centre agent, sitting at their terminal and speaking through…

THE GOVERNMENT needs to help enhance workers’ productivity as part of efforts to improve employment to lift more people out of poverty, the new director of the Country Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Manila said in a statement yesterday.

THE remittances of overseas Filipinos were 2.4 percent lower in peso terms in April as the value of the peso went up and gained on the US dollar by 7.4 percent.

DUE TO CHANGES IN PROGRAM MANILA, Philippines—There has been a 70- to 90-percent drop in the number of placements for foreign caregivers or nannies over the past three months following changes in Immigration Canada’s Foreign Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), it was learned Tuesday.

Striking workers who were displaced numbering to about 500 have sought the help of President Aquino to revoke the P14 billion redevelopment project of the harbor forged during the time of President Arroyo which aimed to privatize the whole sea port.

(Continued from yesterday) The Peculiar Autonomy of SUCs The problem with ‘autonomy’ is that it has different meanings. But one meaning of ‘autonomy’ in regard to SUCs that sets them apart from private HEIs is the fact that SUCs are not covered by the Manual of Regulations for Private Higher Education. This alone is important…

The new country director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Monday said that he was backing labor policies of the Aquino administration, whose fight against poverty and joblessness would be carried out by “productivity and employment growth.”

How can we become smarter? Are there scientific ways to increase our brain’s capacity? Let’s find out. According to Dr. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, a study shows that, on the average, a person’s intelligence (measured by IQ) decreases by five percent every 10 years. But this is just the average. The good news is…

MANILA, Philippines – Japanese manufacturing firm Terumo Corp. will be transferring two of its factories in Europe to the Philippines, thereby expanding its existing multi-billion investment in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – A day after a journalist was killed in Tabuk City in Nueva Vizcaya, a coordinator of militant group Bayan Muna was shot dead yesterday morning in Kalibo town in Aklan.

Rules Implementing Wage Order No. NCR-15 Basic

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All of us are, of course, aiming for a greener world. Who wouldn’t want a place where pollutants are set to a negligible level, plant and animal life can live and thrive, and we use and consume products without guilt because we are assured that they are on the good side of the environment? Incremental…

MANILA, Philippines — Last week, I received a heartwarming comment regarding my recent write-up here in INQUIRER.net’s Global Nation entitled, “Some RP execs engaged in human trafficking.”

THE United Nations urged the Aquino administration to implement more poverty-alleviation measure, apart from creating more jobs if the Philippines is to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

PHILIPPINE policymakers and other developing-country planners must rewrite their economic plans into what the Asian Development Bank (ADB) calls “inclusive growth,” or the scaling down of the gap between the rich and the poor. This, the bank further said, is usually masked by economic advances even in countries like the United States and even more…

STANDARD & Poor’s (S&P) warned the new Philippine government that it cannot rely on improving tax efficiency if it wants to pursue a sustainable budget deficit. In an e-mail to The Manila Times, Benard Agost, a sovereign analyst at the international credit rating agency, said ditching the previous administration’s balanced-budget goal would not affect the…

MANILA, Philippines – The National Government has raised $10.6 billion from the privatization of the National Power Corp. (Napocor) assets and contracts.

MANILA, Philippines – Combined investment approvals of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Board of Investments (BOI) surged 192 percent to P231.3 billion during the first half of the year from P79.24 billion in the same period last year.

Zamboanga City: Communist rebels over the weekend accused the Armed Forces of the Philippinesof actively recruiting minors for military operations against the armed movement. The allegation was made after members of the New People’s Army (NPA) discovered that a prisoner they were currently holding is reportedly a 17-year-old member of the Civilian Auxiliary Force Geographical…

MANILA, Philippines – Over 5,000 undocumented Filipino workers are now working in war-torn Afghanistan and the number is still growing, local recruiters reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the legality of ban on conversion of agricultural lands into commercial use imposed by the administration of former President Arroyo two years ago to address rice shortage in the country then.

MANILA, Philippines – As the son of a revered former president and democracy icon, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino inherits the hopes for change that the Philippine people put in his late mother, Corazon, following the “People Power” revolution of 1986.

Reporters’ query on sex education curtly dismissed REPORTERS covering the Department of Education (DepEd) decried a statement made by Secretary Brother Armin Luistro, who was reported to have said that that he does not need the help of media in going about his duties at the agency. “Education Secretary Brother Armin Luistro is either misinformed…

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – A 75-year-old radio commentator was shot dead in his home in Tabuk City over the weekend, the first journalist murdered during the Aquino administration.

The country’s ethanol producers are opposing the recommendation of the Energy Department to lift the import ban on ethanol and reduce the blending mandate prescribed under the Biofuels Law.

First of 2 parts The last act of Commission on Higher Education Chairman Manny Angeles consisted in the issuance of a memorandum on state universities and colleges that relied on what, to my mind was an unfortunate, poorly argued, poorly articulated Opinion of the Department of Justice on the relation between the Commission on Higher…

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Make money giving away free cell phones! Call Center Workers Lifestyle : The Ups And Downs Call centers have become a craze among youngster. One could find a teenager to mid level professional working at call centers but as they say all that glitter is not gold, call center jobs could be lucrative and cumbersome…

SOME 400 former workers of the North Harbor barricaded two of its gates as they pushed for the cancellation of a P14 billion redevelopment project and the payment of their back wages.