PHILIPPINE Airlines has agreed to suspend its plan to outsource non-core services that would lay off more than 3,000 workers after meeting with the airline’s union officials Friday, Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said.

As a voter in my barangay in Metro Manila, I was delighted to receive yesterday an official sample ballot for the national elections on May 10.

MANILA, Philippines – It’s a go for Monday’s polls after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected yesterday separate petitions of former President Joseph Estrada and the Concerned Citizens’ Movement (CCM) to suspend automation and shift to a manual counting of votes.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) last night declared the Liberal Party (LP) of presidential candidate Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino as the dominant minority party in Monday’s automated elections.

MANILA, Philippines – A total of 364 foreign observers and 159 foreign journalists have registered with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to monitor the country’s first automated polls on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) is mobilizing 3,664 public school teachers nationwide to do the random manual audit (RMA) at precincts all over the country on Monday, election day.

ACTOR ROBIN PADILLA, THE “Bad Boy of Philippine Movies” is being sued for actively endorsing condoms which a political party claimed is an affront to public sensibilities.

BACOLOD CITY—SUGAR PLANTATION WORKERS in Negros Occidental are being harassed into voting for the choice candidates of planters in yet another manifestation of how slave-like the workers’ conditions are.

In 2006, the ILO’s second Global Report on Child Labour showed that significant progress was being made in the fight against child labour . Encouraged by the positive trend, the ILO established a visionary target – to eliminate child labour in its worst forms by 2016. Four years on, the third Global Report paints a…

THE AKO BICOL Party (AKB) has snatched the top spot from the militant Bayan Muna among 13 party-list groups likely to secure at least one seat at the House of Representatives, a final BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey showed.

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The Philippines has secured a bigger sugar quota allocation to the US this year, according to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR).

MANILA, Philippines – Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) vice presidential candidate Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay has tied with Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II in the latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), while LP standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III widened his lead over his rivals, according to a…

TRADE Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged the government to seize the opportunities brought about by fresh cooperation forged by economically-thriving Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) sub-region and the countries of Japan and China even as the world recovers from the effects of the global financial crisis last year.

Goldman Sachs expects remittances from Filipinos overseas to grow 10 percent year-on-year this year, but they will be outpaced by revenues from the business process outsourcing in a few years.

Election spending should prop up domestic consumption that is crucial in stirring economic growth, according to the 2010 United Nations Economic and Social Survey (UN-ESCAP) Report of Asia and the Pacific stated.

The contribution to landfills from electronics will actually escalate until about 2015, but good news will follow, according to a report released Wednesday by Pike Research.

ACCORDING TO A STUDY MANILA, Philippines—Filipino temporary migrant workers tend to be younger and better educated than their domestic counterparts, a study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said.

LONDON–People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.

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WITH only six days to Election Day, the Commission on Elections and its technology provider Smartmatic International Corp. must replace the compact flash cards on 76,300 voting machines after many of them failed in testing Monday.

I’ve decided to give up my two Citibank credit cards—Visa and Mastercard. They charge more than 40 percent annual interest and penalties for late payment are compounded. Every now and then, too, I am made to pay these penalties.

With the oil platform explosion that killed 11 workers now is spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico as a sobering background, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates to the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference:

With the oil platform explosion that killed 11 workers now is spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico as a sobering background, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates to the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference:

With big cement companies in the Philippines starting to use alternative fuels and raw materials, the Environment Department has drawn the guidelines on the use of waste materials as production ingredients.

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Smartmatic admits glitches, errors; Testing junked, 76,000 flash cards recalled Six days before the precincts open for the electorate to cast their vote using the new system of automated polls, real fears of a total failure of elections and a no-election scenario surfaced yesterday as precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines tested virtually nationwide, all…

MANILA, Philippines – The government expects the economy to grow anywhere from 3.8 percent to 4.8 percent next year, buoyed by a recovery in exports and imports, according to the latest estimates made by the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC).

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, (TUCP), the country’s largest party-list of workers, has condemned the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for crafting and implementing the so-called “performance-based rate formula” which it claimed is the cause of skyrocketing prices of electricity.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven in 10 Filipinos approve of the Department of Health’s promotion of condom use to prevent the transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.