BARELY an hour after he was proclaimed president-elect, Benigno Simeon Aquino III distanced himself from imposing a national policy on two major issues: reproductive health and freedom of information.

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THE WORLD BANK HAS EXPRESSED confidence that the growth in foreign exchange remittances to the Philippines will remain robust despite the debt crisis in the Eurozone. It, however, cautioned the country against the ill-effects of a strong peso on consumption of households supported by the migrant workers.

EXPORT EARNINGS continued their double-digit rise in April at 27.4 percent year-on-year, reaching $3.573 billion, the National Statistics Office said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) has submitted to President-elect Benigno Aquino III a 100-day economic road map that aims to help the new administration fulfill its own economic agenda.

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday asked president-elect Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd to provide as much 4 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2011 to address the most pressing problems in education, the Philippine News Agency reported.

PORT of SPAIN, Trinidad – Ten overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Trinidad, West Indies were robbed and attacked by a group of thieves inside their house on Wednesday night.

Governance, ancestral domain, constitutional reform, to name a few — Abaya ZAMBOANGA CITY — The incoming Aquino administration will face tough issues as it pursues peace talks with Muslim separatist and communist rebel groups, outgoing presidential peace adviser Annabelle T. Abaya said, as the process centers on contentious issues.

MANILA, Philippines – Businessmen are challenging newly-minted President Benigno Aquino III to keep his campaign vow to weed out corruption in his first 100 days in office.

The European Union (EU) has called for the establishment of a National Monitoring Mechanism (NMM) that would strengthen transparency and accountability of the Philippine government and the society as a whole in addressing extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country.

MANILA, Philippines – The burden of solving the country’s poverty problem will soon rest on the shoulders of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and members of his Cabinet. Experts say the job may depend on stemming corruption.

Physical education (PE) is one of the most anticipated subjects by students since it helps relieve stress from the usual school grind of projects and papers. But how can the students enjoy PE if their school lacks sports facilities because of fund shortage?

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 41 governors and 923 mayors get re-elected nationwide during the May 10 national and local elections, the Department of Interior and Local Government yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The World Bank (WB) has raised its forecast for the Philippine economy, saying the country’s GDP (gross domestic product) will grow 4.4 percent in 2010, higher than its original forecast of 3.5 percent.

MANILA, Philippines – The confidence level of Filipino consumers for the next 12 months hit a new record high with the fresh mandate of president-elect Benigno Aquino III and vice president-elect Jejomar Binay, results of a survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Philippines went up by 18.6 percent in the first quarter of the year after posting a strong inflow in March amid concerns about the debt crisis in Europe as well as the wait-and-see attitude adopted by investors in light of the May 10 elections.

IT’S illegal but child labor remains to be an unsolved problem. Employing children who are less than 18 years of age in dangerous and life threatening activities is almost everywhere.

“Grazie mille”, a thousand thanks, Madame President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for your full support to all the mandated programs of UNESCO in the past nine years of your governance.

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Edgardo Angara has stressed the need to institutionalize an advanced studies development program for qualified employees of the government and private sector.

SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines – The administration of President-elect Benigno Aquino III will inherit from the Arroyo government shortage of teachers, classrooms, and other critical education resources worth P91.54 billion, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said here yesterday.

Over one million children are victims of commercial sexual exploitation around the world each year. The growing ease of travel, which has lured child-sex predators into less developed countries including the Philippines, has made children more vulnerable to this modern form of slavery.

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Department of Labor and Employment (Dole)-Central Luzon is all set for the annual celebration of World Day Against Child Labor on June 11.

THE opening of the World Cup in South Africa today, Friday, has caught the International Labor Organization (ILO) as it celebrates the World’s Day Against Child Labor on June 12.

YESTERDAY’s press conference immediately after the proclamation of President-elect Noynoy Aquino was a demonstration of his mastery of the national condition.

THE INTERNATIONAL Labor Organization (ILO) is backing a plan to hold an annual survey on the state of child labor in the country in line with efforts to curb the practice of employing minors by 2016.

GROWTH in online job postings slowed to a three-month low in May amid sluggish global recovery that has dampened the service sector’s prospects. The Job Availability Index — a statistical measure using the total monthly job placements at Jobstreet.com with January 2007 as base year — rose by 24.3%, or 47.3 index points to 241.6…

FIRST-QUARTER foreign direct investments (FDI) increased by nearly a fifth from a year ago but inflows in March were down substantially from a month earlier, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) yesterday said.

President Gloria Arroyo has signed a law that will make mandatory the imposition of price ceiling on prime commodities during a state of calamity and will require state lending institutions to extend interest-free loans to citizens who are displaced by the calamity.

A MAKATI court has stopped the Finance Department, Internal Revenue and Customs from collecting duties on imported vehicles based on their book value instead of the transaction value under the Tax Code.

The surprising flow rate of the Tindalo-1 oil well off northwest Palawan will likely redraw the Philippine oil map. Tindalo-1 flowed a maximum 18,689 barrels of oil per day last week, the most by any well drilled in the Philippines since the Nido find in 1976.