MANILA, Philippines – Public school teachers will get free legal assistance from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) if they face lawsuits while on poll duty on May 10.

MANILA, Philippines – The Liberal Party (LP) said yesterday its standard-bearer, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and his running mate, Sen. Manuel Roxas II were the most trusted by Filipino voters among public figures and among all candidates running in the presidential and vice-presidential elections on May 10, according to a Pulse Asia survey.

A number of overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) groups urged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last week to veto amendments to the migrant workers’ law, which they said are anti-OFW particularly the provision on mandatory insurance.

A Filipino family that has been staying in Ireland for eight years is now facing possible deportation by Irish authorities due to the father’s participation in a recent workers’ action in a food factory at County Kildare, Ireland.

MANILA, Philippines—About 17.3 million Filipinos aged 15 years old and above are tobacco smokers with at least 13.8 million smoking daily, the Philippine Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) showed.

THE central bank is warning people against using their credit cards to withdraw cash because of the high interest rate their issuers charge on it.

The ruling party’s standard-bearer Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Tuesday became the first among presidential candidates to come up strongly in favor of the reproductive health issue.

MANILA, Philippines—Here’s the good news: the number of jobless Filipinos went down partly due to election-related activities. The bad news is that the underemployment rate went up, data from the January 2010 Labor Force Survey showed.

Agency urges enactment of energy conservation law MANILA, Philippines–The Energy Regulatory Commission has agreed to implement a so-called interruptible load program as a stop-gap measure to alleviate the current power crisis in Visayas and Mindanao.

DESPITE the series of crises that recently hit the country, the government reported on Tuesday that the number of jobless Filipinos slightly dropped as of January this year.

MANILA, Philippines – Breast feeding advocates have tied up with a high-IQ organization to debunk the claims of infant formula makers whose advertisements claim that their products increase a child’s intelligence.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Power Corp. (Napocor) board has decided to put in the back burner discussions on the development of nuclear energy.

This is another case of dismissal based on loss of trust and confidence. It is the case of Art who started employment on November 2, 1982 as Quality Controller of Feeds in an agricultural company engaged in hog and cattle raising and corn milling (BFMI). By 1998 after almost 16 years of employment Art already…

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If incoming Trade Secretary Jesli Lapus had his way, gift certificates should have no expiry date and airlines should be stopped from implementing a no-refund policy on their promos.

The screeching opposition came out crowing the other week over an observation by the President’s economic adviser, the redoubtable Governor Joey Salceda, that hunger has gone up from 11.4 percent in 2002—the year before President Arroyo took office—to 20.3 percent by 2009.

PRIVATE power distributors will lease diesel-powered generators to produce 200 megawatts of electricity a day in Mindanao to add to the grid, which has been producing less power than needed as a result of a drought, an official said Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) expects to collect at least P3.9 billion in five years from employers who are delinquent in the payment of their employee contributions.

Here’s my list for the healthiest and locally-available fruits. Enjoy these super fruits for your health.

MANILA, Philippines—The US State Department has reported that extrajudicial killings remained a major problem in the Philippines last year and that security forces and insurgent groups were both responsible.

With the country suffering one of its longest stretches of power shortage since the 1990s, various quarters are pointing to nuclear power as a possible solution not only to make future electricity supply stable and secure but also to lower consumers’ electricity bills.

MANILA – Philippine regions with higher growth rates used remittances for development efficiently, a paper by a University of Santo Tomas economist finds.

TOKYO – Japan may lift work visa restrictions for foreign nurses and dentists, to help care for its fast-ageing and shrinking population, the government said Monday.

With Angat dam nearing its critical level, the state-run Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS) has warned of a “double whammy” crisis in Metro Manila when the dam’s power component is privatized in April.

(Second of five parts) C. Reasons for privatization There exist many reasons for a country to privatize its assets but the following constitute the most common and compelling why many countries undertook or advocate privatization:

MANILA, Philippines – With more positive data favoring faster economic recovery, the World Bank is sticking to its 3.5 percent growth forecast for the Philippine economy this year despite the adverse impact of El Niño and government’s massive stimulus spending last year.

MANILA, Philippines – Money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) surged by 8.5 percent to $1.372 billion in January or $107 million more than the $1.265 billion sent home in the same period last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.

Can employees who already signed waivers and quitclaims later on still file a complaint for illegal dismissal? This is the issue raised in this case of Lina and her ten other co-employees (Lina’s group) in the machine and maintenance operations of a multi-national tire manufacturing company (GMC).

According to documents captured by the military, the CPP-NPA plans to raise between three to five billion pesos from collecting “permit to campaign” fees from politicians this election season. In which case, the Maoist insurgents aspire to be the single biggest campaign expense this year.