MANILA, Philippines—Agribusiness, business process outsourcing, creative industries, infrastructure (airports and seaports, road and rail, power and water), manufacturing and logistics, mining, and tourism, medical travel, and retirement will frontline the country’s drive for robust investment, foreign investors said in a forum.

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IN order for the next president to get the Philippines back on track to achieving sustained and inclusive economic growth, the domestic investment rate must be increased to an annual rate of 25 percent from the current 15 percent, which is the lowest among its neighbor states.

SEATTLE—Worldwide personal computer shipments increased more than 20 percent in the first three months of 2010 from the same period a year ago, a sign the PC business is on firmer ground after one of its shakiest stretches ever.

CEBU, Philippines – In line with the celebration of the Labor Day 2010 and Industrial Peace Month, the Department of Labor and Employment-Region 7 will conduct more jobs fair to help reduce the problem on unemployment.

SLOWLY and steadily Lakas-Kampi CMD presidential candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. has climbed up the polls, maintaining his second-place ranking in the latest survey conducted by the independent research firm Campaigns & Image Group, with a 26 percent rating among young voters that comprise almost half of the electorate in this year’s May 10 presidential…

MANILA, Philippines – Investor confidence in the Philippines reached a new high in the first quarter of 2010, rebounding from its rock-bottom level in early 2009, despite political uncertainties in the May polls.

MANILA, Philippines – The Green for Life: One Million Trees and Beyond (OMTB), a project initiated by Br. Armin Luistro, FSC and the Lasallian Institute for the Environment (LIFE), hit 610,694 seedlings planted as of end of February, 2010. The project aims to plant one million trees around the Philippines by June 2011, in time…

PRESS RELEASE HON. RAYMOND DEMOCRITO C. MENDOZA        April 12, 2010 Trade Union Congress Party-List (TUCP) TUCP-PGEA Compound, Maharlika cor. Masaya Streets, Diliman, Quezon City Tel/Fax: (632) 351-3757/924-7551 TUCP Party-List: Proper inspection could have prevented Cebu construction workers’ deaths The TUCP Party-List # 178, the largest worker’s party in the Philippines, lamented the deaths of…

THE Supreme Court on Wednesday issued landmark rules to govern how courts must handle cases involving the environment.

The IMF’s first substantial study on unemployment revises upwards the Fund’s earlier predictions of joblessness in industrialized countries as a result of the current economic crisis. It states that there will be no decline in the unemployment rate before at least 2012 unless countries adopt “policies to jump-start job creation”. Today the Fund released the…

MANILA, Philippines—Senator Benigno Aquino III remains the choice of local and foreign investors as the presidential candidate who can best promote a stable investment climate, according to the latest investor survey of Dutch financial giant ING Bank.

Brussels, 15 April 2010 (ITUC OnLine): As forecasts warn of a continuing rise in unemployment on top of the additional 34 million people worldwide who have become unemployed due to the economic crisis, trade union leaders from the G20 countries will urge for more action on jobs when they meet with G20 Labour and Employment…

EXPORT growth held near a 14-year high in February as the global economic recovery boosted demand for the Philippines’ electronics goods, the government said Tuesday.

Sanders pushes to cap credit card interest rates Burlington, Vermont — Senator Bernie Sanders says credit card companies are no better than loan sharks when it comes to interest rates. In Washington, he spoke religious leaders and community organizers from around the country.  He says that in a recession families rely on credit cards for…

Manila, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions (ALU), Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) and Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) brought their e-campaign to ban asbestos in the Philippines to social networking site Facebook.

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SAY FOREIGN BUSINESSMEN MANILA, Philippines—The country’s strategic location can make it a regional and global logistics hub of various companies, foreign businessmen in the country said in recent forum.

MANILA, Philippines – Party-list Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest worker’s sectoral party in the Philippines, has criticized the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for recently allowing Meralco to impose a rate increase of 26.90 centavos per kilowatt-hour which it said will add to the burdens of consumers in Metro Manila.

MANILA, Philippines – Information technology (IT) experts are worried about possible cheating in the May 10 automated elections and are appealing to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to consider their proposal for a parallel manual count to ensure the credibility of poll results.

How can the Comelec properly automate — when rackets distract it? Since 2008 at least 18 big-ticket expenditures have brought the poll body shame:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the world safer Tuesday after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline on securing vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists.

CEBU, Philippines – Personnel of the Cebu City Police Office will head to Carmen to get the affidavits of the families of the construction workers killed and injured in last week’s tragedy in Barangay Tisa.

WASHINGTON—Children who are spanked frequently at age three are more likely to be aggressive when they’re five, a recent study has found.

MANILA, Philippines – The Joint Foreign Chamber of the Philippines (JFC) predicted on Monday $75 billion in foreign direct investments (FDI) and the creation of 10 billion new jobs for 2010 to 2020.

MANILA, Philippines – The export sector is expected to sustain its recovery this year and in 2011 along with the continued recovery in the global economy, according to government estimates.

MANILA, Philippines – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has upgraded its growth forecast for the Philippine economy this year to 3.8 percent, from an earlier estimate of 3.1 percent, driven by increased private consumption on the back of robust remittances and election spending.