SINGAPORE – Men who bottle up their anger at being unfairly treated at work are up to 5 times more likely to suffer a heart attack, or even die from one, than those who let their frustration show, a Swedish study has found.

MANILA – The number of overweight Filipinos are increasing, according to a nationwide survey by the Food and Nutrition Research Foundation (FNRI).

CEBU, Philippines – Cebu City is now being promoted as one of the country’s havens for both local and foreign retirees through a memorandum of understanding signed between the Cebu City government, the Philippine Retirement Authority and the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

MANILA, Philippines – Two construction workers died while two others were injured when loose soil collapsed on them as they worked on the foundations for another building at the compound of the Maligaya Elementary School in Quezon City yesterday afternoon.

MANILA, Philippines – Two men were seriously injured when a tanker they were filling with bunker fuel exploded at a used-oil recycling plant in Bagbaguin, Caloocan City Monday night.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang downplayed yesterday the reported concerns raised by the International Monetary Fund on the country’s budget deficit, which has already breached the government’s full-year target as of October.

WASHINGTON – A survey published Monday of information technology managers at over 500 US-based companies has found that only about one in four has enabled more than half their workforce to work remotely.

SYDNEY – Eco-friendly managers and staff are the key to making a retailer go green, according to a study listing 15 of the world’s top eco-friendly retailers in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

NORWAY – The Philippine and Norwegian governments will forge a bilateral agreement soon to lift the ban on au pair deployment to Norway. This was announced by Philippine ambassador to Oslo, Elizabeth Buensuceso, at an au pair conference dubbed, “Daughter of Globalization: An au pair conference”, held in this city.

RP races to secure rice supply for 2010 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines could import as much as three million tons of rice next year as the world’s largest buyer of the grain, worried about a potential spike in prices, moves quickly to secure supplies.

Social Security System (SSS) President and Chief Executive Officer Romulo Neri recently said that the SSS would like to ask Congress to find ways to increase the contribution of members, in order to expand services and secure the financial stability of the fund.

The proportion of families who experienced involuntary hunger increased nationwide by 1.3 points—the equivalent of an additional 300,000 families—after the onslaught of Tropical Storms “Ondoy” and “Pepeng,” according to a special Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

LOS ANGELES: Poor sleep can be dangerous for those whose jobs require quick reactions, according to a study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. The researchers found a link between sleep deprivation and information-integration, a process that relies heavily on instantaneous, gut-feeling decisions.

The number of Filipinos who experienced hunger increased by about 300,000 after tropical storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng hit the country, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported.

Franchising seems to be immune from the global financial crisis, with some firms expanding even during the economic turmoil, officials of the Philippine Franchise Association (PFA) told The Manila Times in an exclusive roundtable interview on Monday.

While educated Filipinos were vital to the Philippine economy, the World Bank noted that most of them were unemployed.

CEBU, Philippines – To ensure that every child fully enjoys his/her rights, The Department of Interior and Local Government is urging local government units to include children’s rights as a priority item in their Comprehensive Development Plan.

MANILA, Philippines – Fewer Filipino nurses are likely to get employed in Saudi Arabia in the coming months with the government there imposing stricter requirement for the hiring of foreign workers.

FRANKFURT (AP) — Although it is too early to say the crisis is over, it is time to withdraw some of the policy measures that supported the financial system through the credit crunch, the European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said.

MANILA, Philippines – Two Philippine companies, Petron Corp. and Ayala Land Inc., made it to the top 30 in the 2009 Asian Sustainability Rating (ASR) report released by CSR Asia.

THE $6-billion call-center and business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry formally launched its own advocacy group during a press briefing in Quezon City on Tuesday.

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Despite the record fiscal blowout which most analysts believe will shoot past P300 billion by the end of the year, which prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to place the country back on its danger watchlist, economic officials insisted yesterday the current budget deficit level is not something to be alarmed about.

This outsider was surprised not so much by the fact that Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. has declared his intention to run for the presidency as by the fact that he has done so under the banner of the Lapiang Manggagawa (LM, Labor Party). There have, in fact, been two LMs, neither of which seems to have…

Gilbert Teodoro’s proclamation as the ruling Lakas-Kampi-CMD’s nominee for the presidential elections in May 2010 marked the end of the elimination process and ushered in the political equivalent of the Final Four.

Just a few days in the defense office, with Defense chief Norberto Gonzales seated, and already the military is engaging in partisan politics,directing warnings to the electorate against voting for communists this coming 2010 elections and campaigning actively against party list groups with leftist leanings.

BENCHMARK short-term interest rates inched lower across all tenors Monday. This as the Bureau of Treasury announced that the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is ready to sign the guarantee agreement for the Philippines’ planned Samurai bond offering. National Treasurer Roberto Tan said the signing “may happen this year.”

150 people hospitalized after eating cheese sandwich in an office party.” “30 school children in Bohol die after eating street food.” Like terrorists, deadly bacteria and toxins are waiting to strike you. Brought to you by your favorite waiter and sold at your local carinderia, these invisible, tasteless microbes may be hiding in the buko…

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino consumers as well as borrowers continued to enjoy lower interest rates as the estimated interest rate pass-through improved steadily as of end-October this year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

MANILA, Philippines – Even with just a few months left in her term, President Arroyo’s performance and trust ratings continue to dip, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey on the country’s top national officials.