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The Pamilyang Overseas Filipino Workers-Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Network Foundation Inc. (POFW) urged yesterday the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, as well as the members of the POFW, to attend the Philippine Business and Entrepreneurs Expo (PBEX) 2009 which will be held today, July 29 to Aug. 2 at the SM Megatrade Hall…

Thousands of workers, mostly from malls and small retailers in Binondo, Quiapo, Sta. Cruz in Manila, and Baclaran in Parañaque may lose their jobs due to “unwarranted raids” on these small businesses by government agents, the Department of Labor and Employment yesterday said.

Police in Cordon town, Isabela province have found the bodies of two small-scale miners who have gone missing inside a mine in the said town since Tuesday.

SEPARATIST group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has agreed to remove child soldiers from its ranks, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef)-Philippines reported Friday.

BACOLOD City: The ongoing debate regarding the anti-genetically modified organisms ordinance gets heated with both sides getting emotional and some activists walking-out at the marathon en banc hearing at the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol on Thursday.

CONSUMPTION growth may have improved in the second quarter of this year because of higher school expenses, sustained remittances, and easing worries by businesses, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

So you’re stuck with a “jerk boss” but you need the job or you are a “jerk boss” yourself and want to atone for your misdeeds. What to do?

THREE more foreign business process outsourcing (BPO) firms will open their Manila operations soon, an industry official said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines — Supreme Court justices have expressed some doubt about the reliability of the automated election system that a foreign company would be supplying for the 2010 first-ever computerized election in the country.

100,000 workers displaced since October THE AVERAGE compensation of a worker in the manufacturing sector slightly grew by 0.8 percent in the first quarter, despite thousands of jobs reportedly lost at the height of the global financial crisis, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

MANILA – ASIA’S economic growth and social order is being threatened by a lack of equality that has seen hundreds of millions of people left in poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Thursday.

CEBU, Philippines – Majority of the members of the Visayan Electric Company Employees Union-ALU-TUCP voted “yes” to a strike against the management whom they accused of committing an unfair labor practices and harassment.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that rising public debt of the major developed countries could undermine efforts to spur economic recovery.

MANILA, Philippines – The government has lifted the limit of hectarage for banana export plantation, following the recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) board.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino nurses are now shying away from the United States because of the prevailing financial crisis there.

MANILA, Philippines—Three high school students from an award-winning math guild won for the country a silver and two bronze medals in the recently concluded 6th China Southeast Mathematical Olympiad (CSMO) in Nanchang.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said itwas working on new guidelines for cutting and earth-balling of trees amid public clamor for a ban on cutting of trees in light of the global problem on earth warming and climate change.

Did you play True or False as a kid? The State-of-the-Nation Address reminded me of this game.

MANILA – Investments committed with the Board of Investments (BOI) and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) plunged by 71.6% in the first half of the year due to the global economic slump.

An international civil rights organization is raising the alarm over the government’s failure to address the unabated summary executions in the country.

VALENCIA, Spain: Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites are increasingly being targeted by cyber-criminals drawn to the wealth of personal information supplied by users, experts warn.

A similar protest was held by Filipino American activists in San Francisco, California   WASHINGTON D.C. – About two dozen Filipino Americans and church supporters picketed the White House to denounce human rights violations in the Philippines, hours before the meeting between Presidents Arroyo and Obama.

Secretary Emmanuel Angeles, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), enunciated his plans for the higher education sector in several fora. One of these fora was the 2009 Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) General Assembly held in Cebu on June 24. I devoted my column last week to the first part…

Department of Energy (DOE) officials said the government will privatize the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) next year once a number of studies on the country’s first electricity spot market are completed.

MIGRATION, considered to be the easiest way to a better life for Filipinos, is seriously under fire because of the lingering global financial meltdown, the United Nations (UN) trade arm said Thursday.

Easier entry of RP garments also high on agenda   President Gloria Arroyo will ask American lawmakers to support pieces of US legislation that would make it easier for Filipino nurses and Philippine-made garments and textiles to enter the United States.

MANILA, Philippines – A party-list congressman urged Commission on Human Rights chief Leila de Lima yesterday to inhibit herself from her agency’s inquiry into allegations military men tortured Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas last year.

The Senate yesterday backed the proposal of President Arroyo to condone P42 billion worth of unpaid amortizations of agrarian reform beneficiaries to the Land Bank of the Philippines.

PFIZER Inc. chief executive Jeff Kindler said he was “disappointed” after the Philippine government ordered a reduction in drug prices, including the price of the company’s cholesterol treatment Lipitor.