There is an urgent need to craft an information communications and technology (ICT)-based curriculum content for Filipino expatriates and future Filipino migrant workers to train them and build their capacities using the Internet and other related technologies, according to the La Salle Institute of Governance (LSIG).

MANILA, Philippines – Internet connection speeds in the Philippines are expected to grow at least tenfold in the next five years as growing demand for broadband services encourage industry players to invest heavily in the sector.

Trade Secretary Peter Favila said Monday he expects the export sector to begin rehiring the workers it laid off last year after ending a 13-month slump in November.

The Transparency and Accountability Network (TAN) is urging the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to strictly enforce campaign finance laws by creating an office or unit within the Comelec whose sole job would be to strictly monitor the campaign spending being done by candidates and to make sure they are following restrictions on campaign materials.

We Filipinos have always believed our country’s so fertile that if you stuck a stick anywhere in its soil it would grow. This is why the most recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) report that involuntary hunger in our country is reaching record levels gives you quite a jolt.

(This article was previously published in Frontiers in Finance December 2009 by KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity, based on an interview with the three authors.)

MANILA, Philippines – The government said that laid off workers in the electronics industry will now be rehired.

MANILA, Philippines – New York-based Moody’s Investors Service kept the stable outlook on the Philippines despite projections that it would post the slowest economic growth in Southeast Asia this year.

MANILA, Philippines – The forthcoming elections and a global recovery from the financial crisis are supporting the growing optimisn among Filipino businessmen of a modest economic rebound this year, a survey conducted by Dun and Bradstreet Philippines Inc. showed.

MANILA, Philippines – A waiter was killed in a fire that destroyed a row of establishments along Sucat Road in Parañaque City yesterday morning.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has ordered private higher education institutions (HEIs) and state universities and colleges to be “flexible” in implementing the “no permit, no exam” policy on their students.

CONGRESS on Monday approved the rules for granting full tax exemptions to cooperatives to allow them to serve their members and customers better and make more money, an official said.

SO-CALLED F’K buddies (Fubu) mark sexual and romantic relations of call-center workers polled by the University of the Philippines (UP) Population Institute.

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People should be allowed to work beyond the age of 65 and with more flexible hours, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said. In the UK a worker can see their employment end at 65, even if they do not want to retire.

Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has signalled a wish to change the law that would allow people to work beyond the age of 65. In the UK, a worker can see their employment end at the age of 65 without any redundancy payment – even if they do not want to retire.

AS far as the economy is concerned, most of us probably regard 2009 as a year we’re happy to put behind us. By the key yardsticks of “presyo”, “hanapbuhay” and “kita” (prices, jobs and incomes)—the three economic variables that affect the common citizen most directly—we have definitely seen better times.

MANILA, Philippines – Hazardous electronic waste is piling up at the Pier 18 dump in Manila, according to an environmental group.

MANILA, Philippines—Manuel V. Pangilinan’s entry into the port operations business may have been hailed by most industry players, but labor issues are threatening to scuttle the group’s efforts to modernize Manila North Harbor—the country’s busiest but most inefficient port.

THE EMERGENCE OF NEW and emerging information and communication technologies can no longer be ignored by organizations. Whether organizations provide it on their own or not, people are bringing these technologies to the workplace.

Men who bottle up frustrations about unfair treatment at work are twice as likely to have a heart attack, a study published on Tuesday suggests.

MANILA, Philippines – Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has directed the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to submit a new suggested retail price (SRP) for sugar after prices of refined sugar soared to P60 per kilo in several Metro Manila retail outlets.

MANILA, Philippines – The government will continue to spend on vulnerable sectors and monitor developments related to the global financial crisis this year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

MANILA, Philippines – Export industry leaders are bullish the battered sector is going to stage a recovery this year. Speaking before the first national meeting of the 3,000 strong Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (Philexport), newly elected president of the umbrella organization of exporters Sergio R. Ortiz-Luis said “the year of the Tiger is the year…

His vision is simple, nothing fancy, nothing really new, and yet it seems doable only under a leadership of change and transformation, one that Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, the only son of two Philippine democratic icons, vows to pursue if elected as the country’s 15th president.

MANILA, Philippines – The automotive industry is pushing for the refleeting of public utility jeeps (PUJs) with the country’s own model of vehicle under the Philippine Brand Vehicle (PBV) program, a ranking government official said.

MANILA, Philippines – The government must act to clear hurdles in the development of renewable energy (RE) in the country to make it more competitive with other sources of power, a leading industry expert said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will soon allow all banks to provide microfinancing to the agriculture sector as part of efforts to spur lending in the countryside, BSP Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said over the weekend.

The Supreme Court (SC) has resolved the pending case over a bank’s foreclosure of the St. James School. In its decision, the high court, through Associate Justice Diosdado Peralta, denied for lack of merit the petition filed the school’s owner, Jaime Torres, against the China Banking Corpn.

Even in his youth, Danton Remoto knew that he wasn’t allowed to run away from a fight. His father, an honor-bound military man, was against that. And in his small but charming home cramped with books, souvenirs and unfinished manuscripts, this journalist, poet and educator could still recall what his old man used to say—the…