MANILA, Philippines – A survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed that more and more companies are looking at hiring additional employees after rationalizing their workforce during the height of the global economic meltdown.

MANILA, Philippines – Women’s organizations, HIV/AIDS patients and representatives of non-government organizations will rally in support of embattled Secretary Esperanza Cabral in front of the Department of Health (DOH) office in Manila at 10 a.m. today.

ROXAS CITY – Anti-Reproductive Health (RH) Bill advocates may support the vice presidential bid of Sen. Mar Roxas but will definitely campaign against Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and several others in May 10, 2010 election.

PRESS RELEASE HON. RAYMOND DEMOCRITO C. MENDOZA        March 1, 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: P75 wage increase for workers in NCR

MANILA, Philippines—The employment outlook index has hit a historic high, with companies planning to hire additional workers in the coming quarter as they gear up for a potential rise in consumer demand that may come along with the anticipated economic recovery.

Former military chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. has challenged Rep. Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna party-list and other left-leaning politicians to be transparent on their ties with the Communist Party of the Philippines and denounce the attacks perpetrated by the New People’s Army.

Party-list United Transport Koalisyon or 1-Utak has vehemently denied the accusation of jeepney group Pagkakaisa ng Samahan ng Transport at Operator Nationwide (Piston) that it is in cahoots with the so-called “Big Three” oil firms reason why it has not done anything for the benefit of drivers, operators and passengers of public utility vehicles.

THE Philippine government has identified a dozen potential sites for a nuclear power plant. In a presentation, state-owned National Power Corp. (Napocor) identified alternative locations in the three major island-groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

SINGAPORE (AFP) – Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) urged exporters to stop complaining about the strengthening of the peso against the dollar and should instead focus on improving their competitiveness to be able to survive in the global market.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is looking at getting a piece of the billion dollar game development industry as it participates for the first time at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said.

PARIS—Humans may have a selfish gene but we also experience satisfaction in sharing out the goodies, even if this means giving away some of our own, according to an unusual study released on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines – In an ideal world, finding the means to supply our country’s energy needs is just a matter of funding. In reality, the challenge is to meet growing energy demands while keeping the impact on the environment as light as possible. And to this end, companies are beginning to look for clean and…

MANILA, Philippines – A task force composed of major stakeholders and key players in the furniture export industry is needed to craft and implement a five-year sustainable strategic marketing plan meant not only to promote local products abroad but also market the country as a preferred investment site.

MANILA, Philippines – The local auto industry is complaining that the government has not given them a copy of the proposed revised Motor Vehicle Development Plan (MVDP) because the MVDP presented during the public hearing lacked specific action plans.

MACTAN, Cebu – Mactan is my favorite local tourist destination. It has an international airport with a lot of flights in and out. It also has a number of world class resorts. With the early onset of summer, it was time to take an advanced holiday in Mactan’s Plantation Bay.

Making it All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life authored by David Allen talks of self-management, the key to which is in knowing how to handle our capacity to think, feel, understand, and reason out. It involves two major elements, the way we exercise control and our ability to…

MANILA, Philippines – Globe Telecom, a premier telecommunications services provider in the Philippines, expects the total broadband market in the country to continue its robust growth, reaching four to five million users by year’s end.

How do the presidential candidates differ and agree on what concerns the president elected in the May elections must focus on?

Dear PAO, I am a part-time teacher in a computer school here in Negros Occidental. I am usually paid on an hourly basis for my work. For five years now, I have not received any 13th month pay. I thought this is ok until I read the Labor Code of the Philippines stating that the…

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MANILA, Philippines – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stressed the importance for monetary authorities to maintain their accommodative policy stance and avoid premature exit to ensure sustained economic recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino sailors working on foreign vessels have remitted a total of $3.4 billion in 2009, up by 12 percent from $3.043 billion in 2008, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said yesterday.

New credit card law restricts bank tactics, but sent interest rates up and credit lines down NEW YORK (AP) — Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use.

Sectoral representation in Congress first started with the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, and at that period in congressional history, the sectoral representatives were appointed by Marcos.

Stressing no one enjoys the monopoly of representing the marginalized sectors, presidential son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo yesterday lashed back at party-list representatives who have been criticizing him over reports he is seeking a party-list seat in Congress, saying they too come from the privileged sector of the society.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said government appointees who will be chosen as nominees of party-list groups participating in the May 10 polls should also resign from their posts.

Bagumbayan vice presidential bet Bayani Fernando said poor engineering and the incompetence of government officials are to blame for the frequent power outages nationwide.

The apparent lack of access to reproductive health services in the Philippines hampers development, according to an envoy.

PERHAPS because the President and the First Gentleman are from sugar-farming provinces, the Arroyo administration worked successfully to defer implementation  of zero tariff on sugar trading within the Asean Free Trade Area.