MANILA, Philippines – More and more Filipino nurses are now opting to work in the United Kingdom than in the United States, according to local recruiters.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) yesterday announced a million Filipino families have received cash assistance from its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).

MANILA, Philippines – The Central Credit Information Corp. (CCIC) is expected to start operations by the third quarter of 2010. Chamber of Thrift Banks (CTB) president Pascual Garcia III said the formation of the bureau would make access to credit easier.

MANILA, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) yesterday welcomed the move of human rights advocates to bring the cause of the “Morong 43” before a global forum.

Other commitments expected after result of EO review DRUG COMPANIES have started to voluntarily offer lower product prices although their number has not reached a level that will allow new price cuts, the latest of which was implemented last March 31, a Health official said.

President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III rode on a campaign slogan that endeared him to the Filipino people, making them stake all their bets on him. Despite having nine other contenders to the presidential post, President-elect Noynoy, won by a landslide. His slogan? “Walang mahirap kung walang corrupt” (There is no poverty where there is no…

Catholic bishops have expressed their desire to talk with President-elect Benigno Aquino III on the proposed module for sex education for public school students from the fifth grade to fourth year high school. The Education Department has earlier announced its intention to start its sex education program, on a pilot-test basis, in 79 high schools…

WASHINGTON — A strong global economic recovery — led by Asia — is under way, and is unlikely to be thrown off course by European debt woes or the improbable event of the bursting of an asset bubble in China, a top US Federal Reserve official said on Monday.

A friend sought professional advice from me last week. A manager who reports to him had been griping openly about not getting what he believed were rewards that were due him such as a promotion and a pay increase. I asked my friend if the complaining manager really deserved a promotion and a pay increase—in…

Non-government groups are up in arms against tobacco companies and those representing their interest for their shameless attempts to undermine the campaign being waged by the Department of Health to warn the public of the hazards of smoking.

ITALY – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) based in Italy are forced to take a second job aside from their regular work to support the education of their children in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines—A probing study on Philippine labor migration to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was recently released by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Washington DC, analyzing the movement of people worldwide.

MANILA, Philippines—Leaders of 13 organizations in Australia and 12 in New Zealand condemned the death of labor leader Edward Panganiban and challenged the incoming administration to render justice to him and other human rights victims.

ANALYSIS TAIPEI: Taiwan and China were “stuck” in negotiations on their trade pact, the island’s premier said Saturday, in the latest sign that the two sides may miss this month’s deadline for concluding the agreement.

The economic advisers of President Aquino, if drawn from the same cloth and mind set of the Arroyo advisers, would feed him tons upon tons of hogwash about agriculture.

Vice President Noli de Castro has expressed his wish for Vice President-elect Jejomar Binay to prioritize housing and the welfare of Filipino workers overseas.

The first business of the new administration, according to President-elect Benigno Simeon Aquino 3rd, is to identify all the problems besetting the country to arrive at the correct solutions. “I want to emphasize that wrong identification of the problems leads to wrong solutions, so there has to be correct identification,” the next president told the…

Combined military and police forces have arrested a ranking leader of the communist New People’s Army (NPA), military authorities said yesterday.

Islamist militants in the island province of Basilan in Mindanao beheaded two loggers they abducted just hours earlier, police yesterday said.

The government of Jordan has waived at least $7 million or around P315 million worth of exit fees for the speedy repatriation of runaway overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), an official said. Michael Ang, honorary consul of Jordan to the Philippines, disclosed that the said amount has reduced the number of distressed Filipino workers housed in…

There are lessons P-Noy can and should learn from Barack Obama. They were both elected during an extraordinary time as the anti-thesis of very unpopular incumbents. People were voting not so much for them but for what they symbolized… full of hope that the change being promised would simply materialize if they elected them to…

A campaign to stop the use of mercury is bound to fail unless the government pursues it vigorously and provides it with adequate support. An environmental group raise this concern on Friday noting that the Budget department has yet to release the funds earmarked for the campaign three months before the deadline for the mercury…

CEBU, Philippines – A twelve-man team from the World Bank and AusAID has lauded the government’s anti-poverty program for being efficient and the best ongoing initiatives.

CEBU, Philippines – Stones and cups of hot water were literally flying at midmorning yesterday outside a Mandaue City furniture firm, the subject of a workers’ picket for two weeks now.

MANILA, Philippines – Negotiations are underway to boost the bilateral trade between Russia and the Philippines from $200 million to $2 billion, Sen. Edgardo J. Angara disclosed the other day.

MANILA, Philippines – The Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines has brought the “Morong 43” incident to the United Nations Human Rights Council and urged the body to monitor the country’s compliance to obligations and pledges to human rights instruments.

They have been on the job since Nixon administration, stocking vending machines, making chocolates, and polishing bowling balls. They could have retired years, even decades ago.

PHILIPPINE banks spent an increasingly large amount of their earnings in 2009 for executive pay, the package having grown by more than 10 percent during the year to P74.4 billion, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Friday.

DESPITE the robust growth in exports, the World Bank believes that the country’s export growth is still 5 percent below its level prior to the onslaught of the global economic crisis. World Bank Chief Economist Eric LeBorgne said Philippine exports have not yet fully recovered from the global financial crisis. He said it was natural…

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — An international human rights monitoring group has appealed anew to president-elect Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III to end the outgoing administration’s “culture of impunity.”