United Kingdom eases citizenship policy

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

Filipino workers in United Kingdom could soon return to the Philippines to be with their loved ones without jeopardizing their application for British citizenship, a UK official said.

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Malaysia policy ‘abuses’ migrant workers

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

Amnesty International has hit Malaysia for the Muslim country’s severe and excessive criminal penalties on migrants, saying that foreign workers are being punished even if errors are committed by the employer.

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Record low rates needed to rev up US recovery

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Record-low interest rates are still needed to energize the economic recovery, a Federal Reserve official said Tuesday.

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Party-list nominees: Take off your masks

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

IDENTIFY YOURSELVES: By tomorrow, we should know which of the Party-lists running in the May 10 elections are just being used as Trojan horses of politicians and operators who cannot win a congressional seat on their own.

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Climate change

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

I was surprised why, at the ABS-CBN’s vice presidential debate, Senator Loren Legarda was being asked what was so important about climate change that she focused on it as her campaign thrust. Why not focus on the economy, on graft and corruption? It seems not too many people are aware of the consequences of environmental…

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WHO: Condoms prevent HIV/AIDS spread

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

For people and institutions that believe condoms are evil and cannot stop the spread of HIV/AIDs, let them listen to what the World Health Organization says. The STAR issue of Tuesday (March 23, page 6) stated that condoms could prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other specially transmitted diseases. This report came on the heels…

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Dates of reckoning

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

This case is about the back-wages and separation pay of an illegally dismissed employee. The question raised here is from what date up to what date these monetary awards shall be computed. This is the case of Al.

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RP standing in WHO TB watch list improves – DOH

Published by rudy Date posted on March 25, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine standing in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) watch list for tuberculosis improved from seventh place in 1997 to ninth place last year, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

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Malacañang orders EPIRA review

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

MALACAÑANG on Tuesday ordered the Department of Energy to review the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) in a bid to curb the looming power crisis in the country.

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Climate change agenda needs grassroot inputs

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

The government wants the grassroot community to get involved in drafting the national framework strategy that will help the country respond to adverse effects of climate change.

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Palace clears tax perks for power projects

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

MALACAÑANG on Tuesday approved this year’s Investment Priorities Plan (IPP), which lists the businesses that would benefit from tax and other incentives.

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Philippine population reaching critical level

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

A LAWMAKER warned on Tuesday     that the galloping Philippine population, now at 95 million, would reach the critical level of 115 million by 2015 and seriously threaten the country’s food security.

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Initial list of party-list groups and their nominees

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

The following are the party-list groups that submitted their nominees to the Comelec as of March 23:

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Universities can increase tuition at will

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

COLLEGES and universities can increase their tuition as much as they want but should get the nod of students and their parents first, according to the Commission on Higher Education (Ched).

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Proposed credit info bureau still in limbo after two years

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The establishment of the Central Credit Information Corp. (CCIC) has remained in limbo more than two years after the passage of the Credit Information System Act (CISA) or Republic Act 9510.

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Supreme Court rules COLA integration into state workers’ salary legal

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The integration of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) and other allowances of government workers into their standardized salary rates is legal, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled.

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GMA signs Expanded Breastfeeding Act

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Government offices and private establishments may soon have “lactation stations” where mothers can breastfeed their babies or store their breast milk in refrigerated containers.

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Melo: Poll failure is pure fantasy

Published by rudy Date posted on March 24, 2010

TACLOBAN CITY – Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo yesterday reassured the public that a failure of elections on May 10 is “pure fantasy.”

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BSP warns against cap on credit card rates

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

MANILA – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will not support a bill seeking to cap credit card interest rates, one of its officials said.

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British exec warns vs abuse of student visa

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

A SENIOR British migration official has raised concern on the rising fraudulent visa applications from the Philippines, particularly on the abuse of student visas being used by unskilled workers seeking jobs in Britain.

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Good Practice Note: Asbestos: Occupational and Community Health Issues

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

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Divorce and the Filipino

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

Filipinos, much like the Chinese, are probably among the most ubiquitous nationalities in world. They are scattered around the globe and are found practically every where, even in such unlikely places as Maputo in Africa, where a friend of mine, a Filipino lawyer, lives; Somalia and Afghanistan. Once, while I was in the washroom of…

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Forced port takeover looms

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

The government will force protesting workers at the North Harbor to vacate the port, a top official of the Philippine Ports Authority said on Friday.

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Sugar ‘export replacement’ scheme to start

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

MANILA, Philippines–The government is pushing through with its ‘export replacement’ scheme where 90,000 tons of sugar exported last year would be imported by concerned traders to boost local stocks.

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Candidates and the ‘revolutionary government’

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

When I was a college student, I, like my fellow students, romanticized revolutions. We read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Nicolas Poulantzas’ Power and Social Classes. Che Guevara was our hero. Communism was Heaven on Earth, and bourgeois capitalism, with its profit orientation at the expense of the welfare of the workers, was…

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More deaths from unsafe water than from war—UN

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

UNITED NATIONS – More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in a message to mark World Water Day.

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Two more years of basic education?

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

DO we really need two more years of basic education? The proposal to add two more years to the 10-year basic education curriculum is not new to the education agenda. It has been discussed and debated for some time and I first came across the proposal as a member of the Congressional Commission on Education…

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6 Filipinos die in Malaysia gas accident: reports

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR – Six Filipino workers died at a water treatment plant in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah after they inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a tank, according to reports Tuesday.

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Philippines to lead formulation of Asean tourism strategic plans

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

The country will be leading the formulation of Southeast Asia’s new medium-term tourism strategic plan, the Department of Tourism said on Monday.

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DepEd chief backs sex education

Published by rudy Date posted on March 23, 2010

Newly appointed Education Secretary Mona Valisno has expressed support for Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral’s program that aims to include sex education in the basic curriculum to help curb the rising cases of sex-related diseases among the youth.

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July 2025

Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”

Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.

Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar.  Reject Military!

#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideosturesVideos

Time to support & empower survivors. Time to spark a global conversation. Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!

July


3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 Ju
ly – International Plastic Bag Free Day
 
5 July –
World Youth Skills Day 
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day 
17 July – World Day for
International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons 


Monthly Observances:

Schools Safety Month

Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month

Weekly Observances:

Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week

 

Daily Observances:

First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines

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