A senator is pushing for the salary of public school teachers to be increased by almost 80 percent, bringing their monthly pay to almost P22,000.

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines – The Central Luzon director of the Department of Labor and Employment is suggesting a daily minimum wage increase of about P10 to P12 in the region amid reports showing that prices of basic commodities have increased by this much since two years ago in his jurisdiction.

BANGUI, Ilocos Norte, Philippines — The Wind Energy Development Association of the Philippines (WEDAP) is bullish on the prospects of the country’s wind energy industry.

MANILA, Philippines – A workers’ union at ABS-CBN network criticized management for alleged unjust dismissals and harassment of its members. ABS-CBN IJM (Internal Job Market) workers’ union president Antonio Perez claimed that management had discriminately terminated, delayed, or rearranged work schedules of dozens of ABS-CBN IJM workers since midnight Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – The United Nations on Friday backed a move by the Philippines to introduce sex education among primary and high school students that has sparked a row with the influential Catholic church.

WASHINGTON – The US Millennium Challenge Corp. has said it wants an assurance the incoming administration of president-elect Benigno Aquino III will abide by the MCC’s ideals and principles, including fighting corruption, before it forks over a development grant of about $500 million to the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – Australia and the Philippines signed yesterday a Declaration of Cooperation to support activities that will enhance the investigative capability of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) with an initial P5.2-million grant.

The Swedish parliament has approved the replacement of old nuclear reactors with new ones, marking a change in policy on nuclear power.

Even with a high profile public relations offensive by Smartmatic officials to counteract the growing allegations of electoral fraud, and hiring the 2008 Miss Universe, a Venezuelan, as Miss Transparency for Smartmatic, and despite the Commission on Elections (Comelec) claim of the country having held the first successful nationwide automated elections, computer experts took the…

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MANILA, Philippines – Incoming Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s assets have almost doubled in a matter of just one year since becoming congressman of Ilocos Norte.

One reason even our top universities do not make it to the list of the top 200 in the world is the lack of world-class academic research being undertaken in our country.

MANILA, Philippines – The biggest campaign contributor of president-elect Benigno Aquino III turned out to be his maternal uncle, former communications and television mogul Antonio “Tonyboy” Cojuangco.

HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corp. will look at funding major infrastructure projects in the Philippines, as the private sector now takes the lead in building tollways and power plants.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A labor group in Negros Occidental is appealing to President-elect Benigno Aquino III to prod Congress to legislate an across-the-board wage hike of P150 per day for workers in the private sector.

FOCUS Ventures, Inc., the local distributor of Chinese automotive brand Chana, may invest $8 million on a Philippine assembly plant if domestic sales go up significantly, an executive told reporters yesterday.

DAVAO CITY — This city’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector is developing a program that will promote other cities in the Davao region for outsourcing investments in the next five years.

WHILE GAINS in poverty alleviation may have been achieved, a government-sponsored profile shows much still needs to be done to bridge the income gap among Filipinos. Rich families spend less of their income in basic needs.

WASHINGTON—The mixed bag of economic data released on Tuesday shows a wobbly recovery in danger of being toppled over, analysts said.

THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) expects better results in the next Labor Force Survey (LFS) once the agriculture sector recovers from El Niño, which caused job losses in the first few months of the year.

MANILA, Philippines – President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III hopes to give every Filipino access to health care by 2013. Speaking on ANC’s “The Rundown” Wednesday night, health experts believe, if the Aquino administration uses its resources right, it can achieve this goal.

MANILA, Philippines – The 12-year education cycle proposed by President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will cost the Philippine government an additional P100 billion spread out in 5 years, Aquino’s education adviser said Thursday.

GENEVA, Switzerland – A Philippine labor official on Thursday said some 500 Filipino seafarers have fallen victim to pirates in the past 6 years, underscoring the growing problem of sea piracy in international waters.

Sen. Edgardo Angara stressed yesterday the need to immediately amend certain provisions of the Labor Code to increase national productivity and employment.

[This paper of the FSGO will be presented this afternoon at the Institute for Solidarity in Asia’s convocation to recognize ISA’s LGU partners, San Fernando, Pampanga, and Iloilo City and hear the solemn commitment of national government agencies to carry on with the work to achieve objectives under the ISA program. The meeting is at…

The murders of two journalists triggered a fresh wave of outrage yesterday over a relentless assault on media practitioners in the country, which is now known as the second most dangerous place worldwide for the media, given the many killings of journalists.

Yesterday, I attended the press conference of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers Inc. (Campi) on the August 19 to 22 CAMPI International Motor Show (PIMS) in Manila.

Every year at this time, we are reminded about the critical state of education in the country, with news reports repeatedly showing jam-packed classrooms, many of them still in a dismal state of disrepair, the perennial lack of books, teachers, and facilities all over the country. While the Department of Education tried to put on…

CAUTIOUS optimism prevailed in the consumer sector after the government raised this year’s economic targets on hopes of brisker household spending. Philippine economic managers on Tuesday revised the country’s growth target upwards following the better-than-expected expansion in the first quarter of this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor  and Employmnent (DOLE) projected yesterday a better employment situation in the coming months. Acting Labor Secretary Romeo Lagman said the employment situation, particularly for the agricultural sector would be much better with the onset of the rainy season.