With many dying from leptospirosis in flood-hit areas in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Monday announced that it would pay for confinements arising from the animal feces-borne disease.
MANILA, Philippines – The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will start suspending the monthly benefits of the spouses of its deceased pensioners who are found to be gainfully employed or have other sources of income.
MANILA, Philippines – The country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) sector is expected to grow 23 percent this year in terms of revenues and number of people employed, officials of the industry’s leading association said.
I write this during breaks in the sessions of the 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Beijing. The conference draws together respected experts and advocates and some 1,000 participants as they discuss and listen to views on issues that are too important to relegate to the back burner. These…
THE United Nations raised concern that the series of catastrophes that hit the Philippines in the last two months will make it difficult for the nation to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that seek to address the global poverty and hunger situation.
The Korean Electric Power Corp. has recommended the revival of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant after it found the nuclear reactor and steam engine turbines “intact and in good state.”
Power plants are extremely important to Americans nationwide. Facilities are run by employees working constantly to ensure a constant supply of electricity.
Secretary Ronnie Puno of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is calling on local chief executives to undertake “greater responsibility” in implementing intervention programs that would promote the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders or children in conflict with the law (CICL) in their respective communities.
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said it would continue to temper the volatility of the peso, which recently broke into the 46-to-a-dollar level, raising concerns on how it would affect households totally dependent on remittances.
MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Justice has created a task force of 41 prosecutors that would look into complaints of typhoon victims whose insurance claims on damaged homes and motor vehicles are being held off by their respective insurers.
MANILA, Philippines—A moderate labor organization on Sunday joined calls for the scrapping of the documentary stamp tax (DST) charged on remittances of overseas Filipino workers using the banking system.
PARIS – A standard treatment for keeping inflammatory bowel disease in check increases the risk of infection-related cancers, but not enough to preclude its use, according to a study published Monday.
Beginning March next year, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said it will strictly conform to provisions of the law that defines the eligibility for survivorship pension – a benefit extended to qualified dependents of deceased GSIS pensioners or members.
Officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) received flak for ignoring the invitation of civil society organizations for them to attend the opening plenary of the 2nd Asean Peoples’ Forum (APF)/5th Asean Civil Society Conference (ACSC) in Cha-am, Thailand on Sunday.
THE Philippines will also appeal for the exemption of chicken products from the zero-tariff regime under the Asean Free Trade Area-Common Effective Preferential Tariff (AFTA-CEPT) scheme. The AFTA-CEPT schedule to bring down tariffs to between 0 percent and 5 percent on most products will take effect next year.
BANGKOK: Closer economic ties and ways of coping better with devastating natural disasters in the region will be on the agenda as Asian leaders gather in Thailand this week, analysts and diplomats said. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meets Friday in the resort town of Hua Hin for its annual summit, followed by…
Some 48,000 locals will be hired by the Smartmatic and Total Information Management (TIM) for a couple of weeks to assist in the country’s first automated elections in 2010, a company executive said. Smartmatic-TIM would hire 42,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) technicians, 4,000 supervisors, 2,000 canvassing and consolidation technicians and 600 call center agents,…
MANILA – Business taxpayers whose enterprises have been damaged by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng may file for income tax deduction for the losses they incurred, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said during the weekend.
MANILA, Philippines – The government was urged yesterday to stop collecting taxes on remittances from overseas Filipino workers.
Over the weekend, one of our friends, Pastor Manny Carlos shared a statement that his hair stylist made about flood victims.
MANILA, Philippines – The government needs over P30 billion and at least 10 more years to completely relocate over half a million families of informal settlers near and around waterways in Metro Manila.
MANILA, Philippines – For a few weeks recently, Facebook and Twitter momentarily ceased to be just social networking sites. As Ondoy and later Pepeng rendered streets impassable, downed telephone lines and cut off electricity, people turned to mobile Internet to reach out to family and friends.
MANILA, Philippines – Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap sees a bright future for coffee farming in the Philippines — despite the setbacks of the past two decades — and has set his sights on reviving the coffee industry.
MANILA, Philippines -The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM), the state-run overseer of power assets, has lined up six huge power plants for privatization next year.
The American, Australian-New Zealand, British, Canadian, and European Chambers of Commerce are set to hold the latest installment of their highly successful employment expo aimed at providing local employment opportunities to the public. Dubbed “Foreign Chambers Local Employment Expo 2009,” the two-day expo will open on Oct. 22 at the Market! Market! Activity Center in…
Most Metro Manila households and commercial and industrial establishments affected by Ondoy’s wrath may slowly be getting back to shape, but not so for the insurance industry which is working overtime to process the deluge of claims.
MANILA, Philippines – Trade Secretary Peter B. Favila is pushing for constitutional amendments to encourage more foreign firms to invest in the country.
MANILA, Philippines – Workers nationwide can look forward to safer and better workplaces during the holiday season.
A canal in Amsterdam: We should consult the best engineers and international consultants, like the Dutch, who are flood experts.
UXBRIDGE, Canada—The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.