MANILA, Philippines – Though more gay and bisexual call center workers are getting infected with HIV due to unprotected sex, according to a study by the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), health experts say there is inconclusive data to prove that call centers are “breeding grounds” of HIV.

MANILA, Philippines  Unidenified assailants kidnapped 2 Filipino construction crew who were driving a truck used for a US-funded road project in Barangay Lunggang, Maimbung, Sulu last Monday.

Pulse Asia disclosed that fewer Filipinos know about the party-list system, with just a few months before the May 2010 national elections.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said yesterday that the creation of more jobs should be the top priority of the government at this time and should continue to be a priority of the next administration.

MANILA, Philippines — Around 100 migrants of other nationalities have joined the 200 Filipino workers who staged a job stoppage in different job site for alleged labor malpractices of their employer, Al Arab Company based in Saudi Arabia, a migrant workers’ group disclosed said today.

Apparently pressured by TV Patrol’s constant hammering on rising sugar prices, Agriculture Secretary Art Yap called me one evening shortly after the newscast went on air, to sound me out on some options they are considering. Not surprisingly, price control is on top of their agenda, as is tax free importation of sugar to flood…

Repayment rates are falling at the world’s most famous microfinance institution, Grameen Bank. David Roodman is worried:

The Commission on Information and Communications Technology expects the business process outsourcing and information and communications technology sectors in the Philippines to post robust growths this year.

The cost of 91-day and six-month debt papers rose in Monday’s auction amid investors’ concerns on the forthcoming elections and the fiscal deficit.

CANBERRA—Australia tightened its migration rules Monday in favor of English speakers and professionals, saying the country had been attracting too many hairdressers and cooks and too few doctors and engineers.

MANILA, Philippines – The Business process outsourcing sector (BPO) saw sales slow down last year — due to the caution that prevailed among businesses in the first half — but still managed to meet its full-year target.

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines—Three medical students from Metro Manila were killed Tuesday in a fire that gutted a community clinic in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, police said.

Under what law, regulation or jurisprudence is the Labor Secretary authorized to order labor and management to execute a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) “for records purposes only?”

A visiting British trade official yesterday warned that the Philippines stands to lose more foreign investments to its Southeast Asian neighbors if the government fails to institute economic reforms and strategies that will boost the country’s attractiveness in the world market.

OFFICIALS from the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector and the government on Monday talked up the Philippines’ prospects in this global industry, as a number of companies announced expansion plans in the country.

LAST week, while touring the country’s so-called cyber corridor, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo bragged that she would be turning over to her successor a $7 billion call center industry that is second only to India globally.

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan , Philippines  — The province is opening its doors to the establishment of a nuclear power plant on its coastline.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) claimed it has already neutralized 10 private armed groups and arrested 80 suspected members since police intensified their campaign last Jan. 10.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines and the European Union (EU) have made a great deal of progress during the fourth round of negotiations on most trade issues in the proposed Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) that will serve as the general framework of relations between the Manila and the EU.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Agriculture (DA) said the full implementation of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA)- Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme this year will benefit the agriculture sector.

Dinner by candle-light on Valentine’s Day? Ah, wouldn’t that be so romantic? Yes, but only if you’re dining at some fine restaurant and not eating at home, where the power has suddenly been cut off because you can’t pay your electric bill. And the light of your life has blown her fuse and is now…

We pay tribute to love on St. Valen-tine’s Day, but is the hoopla really warranted from a health standpoint? After all, love and its libidinous soul mate, passion, have led to countless calamities — some of them spectacularly tragic but most anonymously sad: the unrequited romance, the bad marriage, the ill-fated affair. As a mental…

MANILA, Philippines – Donors of print and broadcast campaign materials must make themselves known to the public, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.

In the recent months, I have somewhat been besieged by clients on the verge of bitter separations. And believe it or not, the bitterness, the angst and the spite mostly centered on issues of property rather than what went wrong in their relationship that the caused their break-up.

The number of Filipinos who sought to enter America’s nursing profession plunged by 26 percent in 2009, according to the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.

The National Electric Administration has the authority to designate its officials and employees to electric co-operatives provided that they do not collect allowances or monetary benefits from these private enterprises.

PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo has ordered state-run National Development Co. to acquire the shares of two state banks in Metro Rail Transit Corp. worth $750 million to speed up the government’s takeover of the 17-kilometer MRT-3 line.

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Call center workers in New York overcame a brutal yet predictable anti-union campaign, but are stuck as managers stall first-contract talks. Workers aren’t waiting for the labor board to respond, and took their fight directly to management Friday.

THE recent double full-page “Ganito tayo noon, Ganito tayo ngayon” ads trumpeting the supposed achievements of President Macapagal-Arroyo bring to mind the quote attributed to 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”