THE roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro) system has significantly cut the transport costs, as well as travel time in the Philippines, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study revealed.

CEBU, Philippines – A non-government organization, which seeks to promote health and safety development in a workplace, together with workers, artists and other groups will “paint the town red” on Wednesday, April 28, in commemoration of the Workers Memorial Day.

Adding color, in so many ways, to the May 2010 elections is the participation of Ang Ladlad—the political party of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people. Ang Ladlad is vying for a seat in Congress through the party-list system. The journey was long and challenging.

Militant and moderate farmers’ groups have cast their lot with either the Liberal Party’s Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III or his closest rival Senator Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party.

MANILA, Philippines – Forest-based furniture exporters expect revenue losses due to dry spell brought about by El Niño and climate change towards the latter part of 2010.

SENATOR Manuel Roxas II widened his lead to 18 percentage points over vice presidential rival and fellow Senator Loren Legarda, 41 percent to 23 percent, as Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay continued to catch up in the latest Manila Standard poll.

A WELL-ATTENDED forum on “The Promise of Redemption: BESRA and the Need for Higher Education Reform” was held recently on the UP Diliman campus. At that conference, four eminent scholars took turns in discussing various aspects of the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA), DepEd’s major initiative at reforming the country’s decrepit educational system. While…

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SLOWLY but surely the Philippines is emerging from the worst global economic crisis in decades. A fresh whiff of good news came from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

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The Philippines has a population of about 90 million, which is quite large for an archipelago measuring only 300,000 square kilometers.

MANILA, Philippines – Newly appointed Energy Secretary Jose Ibazeta has vowed to keep nuclear energy development as an option to ensure adequate supply of power in the future.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers nationwide want the country’s next president to immediately move for a freer entry of locally made garments into the United States.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines needs to pour in more investments into infrastructure projects and develop other key sectors like creative industries and tourism, medical travel and retirement, to generate $75 billion in foreign direct investments (FDI) and 10 million jobs over the next 10 years.

MANILA, Philippines – As Nacionalista Party standard bearer Manuel Villar and Liberal Party presidential bet Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III have both been promising to service the poor once elected, the amounts spent by the top two campaign spenders exceed the budgets of government agencies helping the poor, the watchdog Pera’t Pulitika has observed.

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III has gained a double-digit lead over his fiercest rival, Nacionalista Party presidential bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” B. Villar, Jr., in the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey.

MANILA, Philippines – Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay and City Administrator Marjorie de Veyra were charged before Office of the Ombudsman for the dismissal of 138 casual employees of the city government.

MANILA, Philippines – College graduates – not necessarily those from the country’s top schools – are still preferred by most employers, a study done by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) showed.

MANILA, Philippines – If the prevailing power shortages will not be addressed today, the country will see a repeat of the power crisis in the early 90s, an international research firm said in a report.

Women who had hypertension during pregnancy are at increased risk for hypertension and stroke after 40 years of age, based on follow-up data from more than 4,000 women.

MANILA, Philippines – A visiting human rights expert said yesterday presidential candidates have failed to make a firm commitment to provide a comprehensive action plan to end unexplained killings and enforced disappearances.

MANILA, Philippines – Nacionalista Party senatorial candidate Susan Ople called on Malacañang to look into the over P1 billion reportedly owed by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to several accredited skills training centers, accumulated under the leadership of former secretary Augusto Syjuco.

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Two construction workers were injured when the flooring at the fourth level of a call center building under construction at the Asiatown IT Park in Barangay (Village) Lahug here collapsed Saturday night.

Special handling can pay A common complaint among job seekers is that they didn’t get hired because they were overqualified. Now it turns out that may be a good reason.

THIS is in reaction to Kristine L. Alave’s news report titled “Voting populations improbably high; numbers don’t add up.” (Inquirer, 3/17/10) First, we wish to correct the information that the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) has a “census department” headed by Redencion Ignacio. Ignacio is a statistical coordination officer of NSCB’s Social Sector A Division.

THE poverty incidence in the Philippines has risen over the past two years following the global economic crisis and a series of devastating storms last year, according to a joint report by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund released Friday.

THE business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has received millions of pesos in financial support from the Philippine government in 2006, the country’s statistics agency said.

CEBU CITY – Although Cebu has topped last year’s survey as the world’s top emerging destination for outsourcing and off-shoring, an industry leader here bewails the lack of enough manpower in Cebu’s business process outsourcing (BPO) to meet growing demand in the sector.

DESPITE the economic recovery, the world’s top two multilateral lenders said that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for developing countries remains “worrisome.”

THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS HAS virtually declared the party-list system a “free market” to include the ruling elite. Given Comelec Chair Jose Melo’s very “mata-pobre” (condescending) opinion that marginalized groups do not have educated leaders who are capable of leading their organizations, the party-list system has ceased to be a legal and humane intervention for…