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by —JULIE M. AURELIO, Philippine Daily Inquirer The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) cautioned aspiring overseas Filipino workers against fake job offers in Canada which are being circulated on the Internet.

By Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Businessworld, January 09, 2017 THE COUNTRY will just have to “take” the fallout from President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s bloody war on crime, even if it means losing a perk that grants zero tariff on over 6,000 Philippine products sold to European Union (EU) markets, the heads of the Trade department…

Windows is still No. 1, but as the PC market continues to decline, it only has less than half of the market. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Between the Lines, Jan. 9, 2017 The real reason Windows has sunk below the 50-percent mark is that smartphones and tablets are continuing to grow while the desktop…

By Susie Bugante, Businessmirror, January 9, 2017 IN the midst of the discussions concerning the proposal to increase the Social Security System (SSS) pensions by P2,000 is the issue on the agency’s operating expenses (opex). Allegedly, the pension fund’s operating expenses are high due to excessive salaries and benefits. But are the compensation and benefits…

Cupertino is a victim of its own success and is fully responsible for creating the Chinese Android monster. By Jason Perlow for Tech Broiler, January 9, 2017 Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on what has come before, and to imagine what may transpire in the future. For some, an anniversary is a time for reconfirmation…

Posted by: Tempo Online, January 9, 2017 Isang lalaki na umano’y lango sa droga ang nabaril at napatay ng mga pulis matapos niyang pagsasaksakin ang kaniyang live-in partner sa Las Piñas City noong Sabado ng hapon.

by DAVID RYAN POLGAR, Jan 8, 2017 34 workers at a Japanese insurance company are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence (AI) system. Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, seeking greater efficiency in calculating their payouts to policyholders, will soon replace many of its office workers with an AI system based on IBM’s Watson…

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), December 8, 2016 The issue on labor contracting made waves in recent months, with workers calling not only for the eradication of illegal practices such as “endo” and “5-5-5” but also the total abolition of contractualization in all forms. File photo MANILA, Philippines – Old habits die hard.

Romina Cabrera (The Philippine Star), Jan. 7, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – One woman was killed while six others were injured in an air tank explosion at a plastics factory in Quezon City before dawn Thursday.

By Armida D. Rico, Noel Abuel, Abante, January 7, 2017 Muling binalaan kahapon ng Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) ang publiko laban sa mga pekeng trabaho na iniaalok sa internet, sa pamamagitan ng email at social media.

AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. Ocampo (The Philippine Star), Jan. 7, 2017 President Duterte enters the second half of his first year in office unrelentingly pursuing his bloody war on illegal drugs, which during the electoral campaign he had promised to complete in six months. The fulfillment of another campaign promise has now been…

By: Ben O. de Vera – @inquirerdotnet, Philippine Daily Inquirer / January 06, 2017 Pushing through with proposals to slap a two-year ban on farm land conversion as well as hiking the Social Security System’s (SSS) pension benefits without raising members’ contributions will “undermine” the economic growth momentum that the country currently enjoys, a high-ranking…

INQUIRER.net / January 06, 2017 One of the fears revolving around the development of artificial intelligence rises from the possibility that it may eventually replace humans as a workforce. This fear has now become a reality for a number of employees working for a Japanese company.

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, JANUARY 6, 2017 SINCE the communist insurgency started in the 1950s led by a Soviet-influenced Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, President Duterte is the first president to have appointed not only former communist leaders but probably even active communist cadres as members of his Cabinet and as lower-ranking officials.

Written by Kris De Meyer, Jan 6, 2017 Finally a new year is here after the most politically divisive 12 months in a very long time. In the UK, Brexit shattered dreams and friendships. In the US, the polarisation was already huge, but a bitter election campaign made the divisions even deeper. Political rhetoric doesn’t persuade…

By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), January 6, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) decided yesterday to defer the implementation of the new government policy on contractual employment.

(philstar.com), January 6, 2017 MANILA, Philippines — Charity and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are key issues for business people globally, a recent research from workspace provider Regus revealed.

By Prinz Magtulis (The Philippine Star), January 6, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The Social Security System (SSS) wants a relaxation of investment restrictions to raise more funding for the agency amid a clamor for a pension hike. “It is so we can redirect our funds to better yielding assets,” SSS president and chief executive officer…

1.5.2017 (DOLE, Intramuros, Manila). TUCP President Ruben D. Torres –in a three-hour DOLE dialogue with organized labor –reiterated TUCP’s opposition against the pervasive and unchecked practice of contractualization.

by ROBBY BERMAN, Jan 4, 2017 For everyone, there are times when a dark cloud just seems to be following you around. You may not even even know why. While we don’t mean to minimize the value of medication for those who experience this on a daily basis, UCLA neuroscientist Alex Korb, author of The…

by Lindsay Murdoch, 4 Jan 2017 Bangkok: A “human trafficking syndicate” has been hiring Filipino women to travel to Cambodia to carry surrogacy babies for foreigners, including Australians, Philippine authorities say.

by Jess Shankleman and Chris Martin, Bloomberg, Jan. 3, 2017 Global average solar cost may fall below coal within 10 years Countries from Saudi Arabia to Mexico planning auctions Solar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less than a decade, it’s likely to be the lowest-cost option almost…

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star), January 3, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – Lack of available contraceptives would easily make the Philippine population balloon to over 106 million this year, the Commission on Population (PopCom) declared yesterday.

by Jess Shankleman and Chris Martin, Bloomberg, January 3, 2017 Solar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less than a decade, it’s likely to be the lowest-cost option almost everywhere.

By Steven Butler, The Daily Dose, January 3, 2017 Because the world economy is in the doldrums and could use some help. The train pulls out of the station as I lean on the throttle — a mile of freight cars in tow — accelerating to over 80 mph. Catching sight of some curves and…

Nyshka Chandran | @nyshkac, 3 Jan 2017, CNBC.com When it comes to Asia’s growth outlook, the south still reigns supreme. India, Indonesia and Thailand are seen as the region’s best performers of 2017 thanks to healthy fundamentals, economists told CNBC.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), January 2, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The European business community has two special wishes for President Duterte this New Year: that he address concerns on alleged extrajudicial killings and end his verbal assaults on the country’s international allies.

BY REY ELBO, Manila Times, JANUARY 2, 2017 WHICH Philippine employer should be awarded as the most evil to workers, at least for this year? In Japan, advertising giant Dentsu Inc. has been given the 2016 Black Company Award, a.k.a. the Most Evil Corporation of the Year. A group of journalists and rights activists gave…

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. (The Philippine Star), Jan. 1, 2017 YOU have seen or survived the first six months of the six-year Duterte regime. For the new year starting this blessed day (killers do not rest even on the Sabbath), it will be more of the same – only stricter, meaning bloodier.