Factories kick-started the US economy from its worst recession in seven decades. Now they’re taking the lead in reviving the labor market.

WORKERS in Metro Manila will have to wait for more time before the proposed P75 across-the-board wage hike can be decided on by the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC).

WHILE agricultural growth can be achieved by the expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through the improvement in productivity is a promising option, according to a discussion paper released by a senior research fellow of the government think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS)

HONOLULU, Hawaii – The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered K-Mart to pay a 73-year-old former Pinay employee US$120,000 in damages.

MANY CHILDREN enrolled in private schools and their parents are overburdened by school work. The students have very little time after class hours to indulge in recreational activities and enjoy their youth. Their parents, right from work, have to spend the rest of the day and into the evening helping their children accomplish homework and…

I’d like to share a letter e-mailed to me over the weekend which somewhat illustrates that, in our country where pirated DVDs abound and where few have moral or legal qualms about buying them, sometimes theatre owners are hardly helping the cause of the movie industry against piracy.

CHICAGO – The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 percent of U.S. women fed their babies breast milk only for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says.

THE peso hit a 20-month high against the US dollar on the first trading day of the second quarter mainly because of improving risk appetite, currency traders said.

MANILA, Philippines – Amid criticism that President Arroyo has made numerous political appoint-ments in the past nine years, officials claimed that her administration has the highest ratio of career service executives since 1986.

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said there were “some signs of hope” in May’s employment report, but cautioned that the U.S. economy is far from a full recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – The government will meet with the diplomatic community tomorrow to explain its side on the alleged human rights abuses committed against the so-called Morong 43.

(Fourth of five parts) The more specific macroeconomic benefits of privatization are:

MANILA, Philippines – Treasury bill (T-bill) rates fell across the board as investors swarmed the first auction of government securities for the second quarter of the year, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The outlook of local businessmen on the economy for this year is the most upbeat in 14 years, based on the Makati Business Club’s Executive Outlook Survey.

Suddenly, it’s summer! The heat is on. And we don’t really mean the frenzied presidential campaign, with elections just around the proverbial bend. Also making big news is our water shortage problem due to the decline in he water level in Angat Dam, which supplies 97 percent of Metro Manila’s raw water, due to the…

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipino nurses and other professionals are getting hired abroad, the local recruitment industry reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Business outlook for 2010 is the most upbeat in 14 years as the economy recovers from the global crisis, according to a survey conducted by the Makati Business Club (MBC).

Filipinos have been familiar with HIV and AIDS since the 1980s. Remember movies made about Sarah Jane Salazar and Dolzura Cortez? Even so, the knowledge of the existence of this condition did not alarm most people at the time. The Philippines was thought to be a low-prevalence country, compared to other countries especially in Africa.…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)  — Unions and their allies in the General Assembly have cleared a first hurdle for legislation setting new rules for how telephone call centers are staffed.

A SENATE version of the US bill that would provide preferential treatment to certain Philippine-made garments has been filed, according to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Older workers who can’t retire comfortably are likely to be needed in the workplace as the economy grows, easing threats of an entitlement load.

COMMITMENTS to invest in the Philippines grew by more than two-fold in the first quarter of the year, according to the Department of Trade and Industry.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY: Tuna catch is declining in the southern Philippines as the warm climate continues to affect the ocean’s temperature.

For tourist destinations, the initiative is to have gun-free zones and discipline zones. The targets are: 10 percent in 2010; 50 percent in 2020; and 100 percent in 2030.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) ordered all first-level courts in the country to hear small claims cases, giving complainants wider access to a litigation system that does not require a lawyer.

MANILA, Philippines – Eight rural electric power cooperatives in the Visayas have called on the national government to honor its standing 75-25 agreement in sharing power with its energy-generating facility, if only to end daily two-hour blackouts in the region.

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III vowed yesterday to nullify all the illegal appointments made by President Arroyo during the election ban.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Two supporters of the Bantay party-list group of Rep. Jovito Palparan were found dead in separate places in the region on Good Friday, more than two weeks after they were abducted in this city.

MANILA, Philippines – Sumisho Motor Finance Corp, the country’s first motorcycle financing company, expects the Philippines to soon join its neighbors in the ASEAN region which have shifted to motorcycles as the preferred mode of transportation.

MANILA, Philippines – State-run Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) has barred banks or its directors, officers, and employees from marketing and promoting transactions that constitute or emanate from unsafe and unsound banking practices.