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A brighter, greener world

Published by rudy Date posted on July 6, 2010

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…

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The Polo-Owwa onsite labor education program

Published by rudy Date posted on July 6, 2010

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.”

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RP needs more poverty-alleviation steps to meet UN millennium goals

Published by rudy Date posted on July 6, 2010

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).

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2 faces of Asia, ultrarich and desperately poor, hound economists

Published by rudy Date posted on July 6, 2010

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…

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Improving tax efficiency not enough, says S&P

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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…

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Government raises $10.6 billion from privatization of Napocor assets, contracts

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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

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Investment approvals surge 192%

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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Military accused of using minors to fight rebels

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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…

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Over 5,000 undocumented Pinoys working in Afghanistan

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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Supreme Court upholds ban on conversion of agricultural lands for commercial use

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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President Aquino needs to tackle an old problem

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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DepEd chief belittles media

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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…

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Journalist shot dead; 1st under new government

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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Ethanol makers oppose move to lift import ban

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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Ched’s ‘midnight memo’

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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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“They say so”

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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…

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Laid-off North Harbor workers demand back wages

Published by rudy Date posted on July 5, 2010

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.

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SC nixes bid to void DAR order on farmlands conversion

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court upheld an order of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in 2008 to temporarily suspended the conversion of farmlands for commercial use.

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How rich is rich?

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

MANILA, Philippines—Who are the rich? Are they the ones who go to Belo for specialized services? Driving a Lexus, BMW and the like? How rich is rich? Do they also eat galunggong (round scad) and NFA rice like most of us? And do they pay taxes? How much?

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Number of jobless Filipino nurses increasing

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MANILA, Philippines – Richard Palikpik was one of the 92,000 nursing graduates who took the licensure examinations on Saturday. Palikpik said he spent the last 3 months reviewing for the exam.

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Asean set to monitor troubled economies

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

HANOI—The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will set up a financial surveillance office that will monitor countries within the region that are in danger of falling into recession.

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The next 100 days: Fighting the ‘tyranny of the urgent’

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

An improbable presidential candidate only a year before, Benigno Simeon Aquino 3rd, has ascended the pinnacle of power as the country’s 15th head of state. In inauguration ceremonies marked by exuberant celebration of a people-powered campaign and pregnant with high hopes for the future, “P-Noy,” the new president’s preferred appellation, signaled a dramatic departure from…

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Abueva: Attend also to long-term, positive institutional changes

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

President Benigno Aquino 3rd should make known his intentions on Constitutional amendments, if any, while it is still early in his administration, highly respected political scientist Dr. Jose Abueva, former president of the University of the Philippines and now president of Kalayaan College, told The Manila Times.

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Business community: Fight corruption, boost revenue by making evaders and smugglers pay

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

WHILE his promise to speed up government service by cutting red tape and slowing down wang wang wielding officials have gained brownie points from the public, the business community has reminded President Benigno Aquino 3rd to make true his words of not imposing new taxes in the drive to improve revenue collections.

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Open economy, strengthen state, ease inequality

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

The President’s three prime tasks PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo has left her successor a dysfunctional state, falling global competitiveness and continuing mass poverty. Can President Benigno Aquino 3rd begin to set things right?

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You can control your time

Published by rudy Date posted on July 4, 2010

Time is within your control. You’re probably asking, “How can you control time in a 24/7 environment?” Winners carry this secret with them all the time: Each man is given exactly 24 hours a day, but it’s how time is spent or wasted that spells success, mediocrity or failure.

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June 2025

Philippine Environment Month!
“Action for Nature, for the Future!”


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!

Monthly Observances:

  1 Jun – World Day of Parents

  5 Jun – World Environment Day 

  7 Jun – World Food Safety Day 

  8 Jun – World Oceans Day

12 Jun – World Day Against
Child Labour

15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 

16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances 

17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

20 Jun – World Refugee Day 

25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer 

27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day

 

Daily Observances:

First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines

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