After two confirmed cases of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus in the Philippines, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) issued guidelines to help prevent the disease from spreading in the workplace.

Joint Administrative Order on GHS

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ngPilipinas (BSP) expects the country to post net inflow of foreign portfolio investments this month, following substantial net outflows in the past months.

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) The Philippine National Police (PNP) has created a special task group tasked to put an end to political killings and election-related violence, less than a year before the 2010 elections, PNP Chief Director General Jesus Verzosa said.

MANILA, Philippines –Malnutrition is still one of the major health problems in school children and could be considered deadlier than the swine flu plague, a partylist representative said today.

Whoever said that Filipino women do not suffer the same abuse as their counterparts in the Middle East, India and Africa must either be insensitive males or simply clueless.

THE Philippines is proposing a gradual reduction in sugar tariffs in Southeast Asia as a “middle ground” between Filipino farmers’ plea for protection and the country’s commitment to bring down trade barriers, Trade Secretary Peter Favila said over the weekend.

Any stranger or first-time visitor to Laguna and Quezon will be instantly awed at the sight of endless rows of tall and lush coconut trees which dominate the landscape. But the thick tree cover all around seems to camouflage the acute ills that beset the coconut industry in these provinces and the entire country.

By the time this column sees print, the possibility looms that the brouhaha over the Hayden Kho sex video scandal may no longer command as much public attention as it did the week just past.

Another dubious purpose of the RH bill is to check the alleged alarming increase in our population. The bill uses “population management’ instead of the coercive sounding “population control” to make it more agreeable and acceptable. But whatever it is called, it is based on false and misleading premises.

What is influenza A (H1N1) is a new strain of virus that resulted from the reassortment of 4 viruses from pigs, human and birds. can cause pneumonia, which can be fatal – no vaccine yet discovered to protect human

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CEBU, Philippines – PhilHealth recently adjusted its basic benefits by 35 percent to allow members bigger coverage.

CEBU, Philippines – With several taxi groups in Manila planning to increase rates to cover for the expense in implementing the “Special Taxi Metering System,” the City Council is asking the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board to consider moving the date in implementing the system.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is set to look into the allegation of the 350-member International Solidarity Mission (ISM) that there is an increased militarization in certain parts of southern Mindanao.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines was unable to convince its Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) neighbors to re-classify sugar and include it in the highly sensitive list, a ranking government official said.

The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is seriously considering to expand the granting of state incentives to projects outside of the Freeport zone to nearby areas in Olongapo City.

Short of saying that the World Competitiveness Report that ranked the Philippines at the bottom of 18 economies in the Asia-Pacific region this year was inaccurate, National Competitiveness Council (NCC) private sector chairman Cesar Bautista contested some of the criteria used.

Convenience in government processes as a come-on to investors to bring in foreign capital takes center stage in the new visa offered by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to which the business sector responded by giving employment to almost 20,000 Filipinos.

MANILA, Philippines – The bad news: hypertension is the foremost cause of deaths globally, according to a report presented by Novartis Healthcare Philippines. The good news: You can do something about it, and you can start by simply cutting salt from your diet.

Only Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera can explain what prompted her to file a motion to stop a court order for the government to proceed with an audit of the books of the country’s “Big Three” oil companies after Malacañang said yesterday it did not sanction the move.

Conflicting Proverbs Actions speak louder than words. The pen is mightier than the sword.

Many women mistakenly believe they have a vaginal yeast infection and are doing themselves more harm than good by treating it on their own, researchers reported at the International Society for the study of Vulvovaginal Disease meeting.

MANILA, Philippines – One worker died and three others were injured when a concrete wall collapsed on them as they were working at a construction site in Pasay City.

MANILA, Philippines – Inspite of the global financial crisis, the tobacco industry is coming out strong and bullish this season.

MADRID/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – World economic grouping OECD said on Monday the global economy had come out of “free fall,” offering hope of incipient recovery late this year to investors and markets unnerved by rising U.S. government debt.

The international journalist group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontiers or RSF) expressed alarmed over reports that a journalist and two human rights groups were on the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) “Order of Battle” list of surveillance targets in Mindanao in 2007 because of their alleged links to the Communist Party of the…

OUTSIDE of Metro Manila and Metro Cebu, Davao is set to be the biggest location for business process outsourcing (BPO) in the country.

Last March, the Commission on Human Rights headed by Chairman Leila de Lima held three days of public hearings on extrajudicial killings in Davao City.