“Ban Asbestos Now,” a campaign to build awareness of the continued use of asbestos in the United States, today launched the Ban Asbestos Now Video Search, asking students across the United States to use their creativity to draw national attention to the toxic, and often deadly, substance considered “the largest manmade public health crisis in…

CEBU, Philippines – The Visayan Association of Ferryboat and Coastwise Service Operators is supporting the planned nationwide strike by all shipping owners in protest of the several memorandum circulars issued by the Maritime Industry Authority.

BAGUIO CITY – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC-CAR) achieved universal coverage of membership in Cordillera in 2009, according to PHIC Media Relations Officer Maggie Del Rosario during an interview Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Television network GMA 7 yesterday took the initiative to call on its talents and showbiz personalities to take a leave of absence if they continue to endorse candidates or political parties during the campaign period.

MANILA, Philippines – The newly formed Climate Change Commission is proposing a P2-billion budget this year, the same amount originally allocated to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for reforestation.

The management of the South Korean firm Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines Inc. assured President Gloria Arroyo on Thursday that Filipino workers in its shipyard in Subic Bay Freeport are safe.

I decided to attend at least one forum of presidential candidates, the one at the University of the Philippines last Monday. Getting through the UP campus traffic regulations which nevertheless did not prevent chaos was the first challenge. I ended up cluelessly going through the candidates’ entrance which was clogged from the outside by supporters.…

Rising prices of sugar and tilapia could worsen the hunger incidence in the country, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said on Thursday.

Power supply in Mindanao, Visayas critical A lack of power supply hovers above the whole of the country’s main island of Luzon because of power-plant outages blamed on maintenance shutdown, technical problems and low water levels from the El Niño phenomenon.

Total investments in the country decreased 32.04 percent last year as businesses reeled from the impact of the global financial crisis, the Trade Department said yesterday.

The Confederation of Government Employees Organization Inc. (Cogeo ), a group of current and retired government employees, chided the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday for its decision to uphold an earlier lower court order on state pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) for the garnishment of P400 million — which could eventually balloon up to…

Someday, when it finally becomes possible to amend the 1987 Constitution without the narrow considerations of personal and partisan interest, like term extensions, perhaps the people who get to do the amending will take a long, hard look at the party-list system. Far from being a means of guaranteeing “proportional representation” to marginalized sectors in…

Almost seven out of 10 Filipinos are unaware of the party-list system for Congress, results of a recent Pulse Asia survey showed.

Baguio City (6 February) — The Department of Social Welfare and Development will intensify its anti-hunger mitigation programs for this year to address the rising hunger incidence attributed to the typhoons that devastated the country late last year.

PHILIPPINE exports in December rose at its fastest pace in nearly four years, but the full-year figure was the worst contraction on record.

AT least 12 million indigenous people in the Philippines continue to suffer from poverty and human rights abuses, a United Nations State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples report said.

MANILA, Philippines – A construction worker died after he was pinned down by a concrete wall that collapsed while work was in progress along Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City early evening Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven out of 10 Filipinos are still unaware of the party-list system, also known as sectoral representation, according to a Pulse Asia survey conducted in January.

MANILA, Philippines – Amid reports of rising cases of abuses against overseas Filipino workers, the government is soon adopting a new information system to provide immediate and necessary assistance for OFWs.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Education (DepEd) will start the training of elementary and high school teachers to teach “personal safety lessons” (PSL) to make public schools and even homes safe for children.

MANILA, Philippines – After bombarding voters with his rags-to-riches story, Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. faced yesterday a critical business group to declare his commitment – and capability – to steer the country out of poverty.

MANILA, Philippines – Foreign direct investments (FDIs) managed a 5.5- percent growth in the first 11 months of last year despite plunging by 61 percent in November due to weak equity placements and higher withdrawals, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Despite having gone through several politically-tumultuous events in the last nine years, the Arroyo administration will have a “strong finish” as far as the economy is concerned, Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said yesterday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY , Philippines  — Only one-eighth of the earth’s surface will remain as dry land by 2020, unless governments worldwide succeeded in bringing down greenhouse gas emissions to 2 degrees Celsius by 2017, an environment science professor at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños said.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is looking into the veracity of a report alleging that some Filipino household service workers (HSWs) have been maltreated by their employers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The swelling public deficits in Portugal, Spain and Greece have plunged the eurozone into the biggest crisis in its 11-year life, presaging years of belt-tightening, analysts warn.

Migrant workers told to report abusive employers MANILA, Philippines—As Filipino household service workers (HSWs) continue to be abused by their employers abroad, the Department of Labor and Employment on Wednesday bared its plan for an Internet-based, onsite monitoring of the profiles of overseas Filipino workers, as well as those of their foreign employers and foreign…

WASHINGTON DC, United States—Immigration enforcement takes a heavy toll on children, according to a recent study by the Urban Institute.

MANILA, Philippines—Two truck drivers were abducted by a still unidentified group in Sulu province last Monday, the provincial police chief said on Wednesday.

The number of Filipinos shying away from saying “till death do as part” rose between 1980 and 2000, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).