MANILA, Philippines—A prime destinations of Filipino workers, Singapore is implementing a comprehensive reduction of its reliance on, and accommodation of, foreign labor force.

MANILA, Philippines—Relatives and colleagues of 43 people, including two doctors, a nurse and a midwife, are set to file petitions for writs of amparo and of habeas corpus before the Supreme Court on Monday for what they called illegal arrests of the health workers by a joint team of the military and police in Morong,…

For the past few years, a young man by the name of Kev Alonzo has been referring to himself as “a shape-shifter.”

Food exporters suspect hoarding of sugar as the main reason for the rocketing price of the commodity and called on government to immediately step in to help avert the collapse of the food export industry due to possible supply manipulation.

A BILLIONAIRE and four other millionaires lead the pack of those who want to serve as the 15th president of the Philippines, all invariably swearing by an anti-poverty platform, and with some purposely harking on their poverty roots to spin and curry favor with majority of voters who are poor.

CEBU, Philippines – The government had spent more than four million pesos for family planning seminars in Central Visayas in 2007 and 2008, but it was found out that the project was “not effective” because there were only 3,123 out of the 32,000 couples targeted who had attended the classes.

MANILA, Philippines – More young people are suffering from cardiovascular diseases due to unhealthy lifestyle habits in the workplace, the Philippine Heart Association (PHA) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – With less than four months to go before the May 10 presidential elections, Nacionalista Party standard-bearer Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. has overtaken his main rival Sen. Benigno Aquino III by one percentage point in a “one-on-one’ rider survey dished out by Pulse Asia taken from Jan. 22 to 26.

MANILA, Philippines – Total savings in the Philippines retreated by more than three percent during the height of the global financial and economic downturn as well as soaring commodity prices in 2008.

MANILA, Philippines—As the United States still had to allow the massive influx of foreign nurses to its shores due to a severe lack of nurses, the number of Filipinos that sought to enter America’s nursing profession plunged by 26 percent in 2009, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said in a statement Sunday.

The Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Working Group (WG) on Climate Change and Development, a coalition of over 30 organizations working on climate change-related issues, calls on President Gloria Arroyo to take a long and careful look at the Copenhagen Accord and firmly resist being rushed into committing the Philippines to the highly controversial and widely-criticized…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak with January’s unexpected decline in the US unemployment rate, which fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Fears of another crisis spiral for the world economy deepened Friday after the Portuguese parliament defeated a government austerity plan, triggering renewed concern that the financial crisis in that country and in Greece could spread through the eurozone and spill across its borders.

MANILA, Philippines – Manufacturing firms and other workplaces in the country are now a lot safer for workers, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) yesterday urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to take action on colleges and universities not implementing its Memorandum 02 for 2010.

A group advocating education in information technology (IT) in Cebu yesterday urged call centers to respond positively to the results of a 2009 survey that showed that call center agents lived lifestyles that gave them higher chances of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and other health risks.

Students’ groups on Friday asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to immediately act on the complaints of parents and students regarding the non-compliance of schools to its Memorandum Order No. 02, which called on higher education institutions to allow students with arrears to take examinations. Students groups, led by the National Union of Students…

MANILA, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) sees the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector in the country growing to a $100-billion a year industry in 10 years if the right investments are made by the next administration.

(Part II) Two “devilish” sayings come to mind when I think of the current state of our party list system. First, “the road to hell is sometimes paved with good intentions” and second, “the devil is in the details.”

TWO laborers were hurt when the roof and ceiling of a 90-year-old warehouse along M.C. Briones St. in front of the new Cebu City Hall building collapsed yesterday.

PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo’s support for a sales-tax exemption for the elderly may reverse the fiscal improvements she made in office, Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran said Friday.

SURVEYS are like photographs; they capture only moments in time. But then pictures can express a thousand things, and when placed one after another, they can tell stories.

WITH THE ENACTMENT OF THE Credit Information System Act, or Republic Act No. 9510, a comprehensive and centralized credit database will soon be in place in the country.

SLOWLY RECOVERING FROM LAST YEAR’S slump, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority has approved almost P13.6 billion worth of new investments in January, 60.9 percent higher than the P8.4 billion reported in the same month last year.

LEGAZPI CITY—The Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) has noted a steady increase in the number of infections involving the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the deadly AIDS, with at least one case reported every three days.

MANILA, Philippines – The provincial health office in Negros Occidental on Friday reported an increased number of HIV/AIDS cases recorded in 2009.

The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) yesterday said it is willing to work with fellow poll watchdog, National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) for the May 10 elections on the condition that they will agree to the former’s set “terms.”

Some of you are old enough to remember the eight-to-12-hour daily blackouts as Cory Aquino’s term ended. Blackouts caused because no new power plants had been built for years. Economists estimated that the blackouts cost the country around P3 to 5 billion daily in lost business and contracted the 1992 Gross National Product by three…

Hongkong-based workers are keen in joining the home development mutual fund under its expanded coverage, according to Vice President Noli de Castro citing a report from Pag-Ibig Fund officials.