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by BAP, GMA News, Apr 26, 2019 At least 17 women, including eight minors aged between 14 and 16, were rescued from an alleged human trafficking ring by authorities in an entrapment operation conducted in Cavite, James Agustin reported on Unang Balita.

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) – Apr 25, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Fitch Ratings has slashed the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020 due to the delayed passage of the 2019 national budget, the series of rate hikes by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the trade war…

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2 trafficking victims arrive in the Philippines Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star) – April 21, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Two chefs who were duped into working at a restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 last night. According to representatives of the Filipino community in Lagos, Abraham Duque and…

Woman held for online trafficking Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star) – April 18, 2019 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — Police arrested in Mandaue City, Cebu yesterday a 45-year-old woman who allegedly offered her daughters to online traffickers. The International Justice Mission (IJM) said the suspect was transmitting sexually explicit photos of her daughters, aged six…

Twelve workers were killed, three workers were injured and three missing in eight serious workplace incidents in the Philippines in January – March 2019 – an NTUC Philippines compilation of media reports show. Most of those killed were in Mining (five) and Construction (four).  

  MANILA, Philippines — Ports tycoon Enrique Razon is in talks with the creditor banks of Hanjin for the possibility of taking over the shipyard of the bankrupt shipping construction giant. “We’re still making presentations to the banks. We’re developing a masterplan for Hanjin.” Razon told reporters yesterday on the sidelines of the annual stockholders…

Skills Every Call Center Agent Should Know To Have An Effective Communication With Customers Fred Chua  – December 17, 2018 To have an effective communication with customers, businesses and brands need to know what their customers want. In many cases, customers have an ideal customer experience where they would deal with the company seamlessly. For…

  28 November 2018 — Participants in the National Trade Union Center (NTUC Philippines) one-day workshop on “Strengthening the Campaign for an ILO Convention and Planning Enterprise Level Campaigns on GBV in the World of Work” in Quezon City on 21 November 2018, identified and  pledged to push wide-ranging activities against gender-based violence (GBV) at…

Computer technician gets life term for online trafficking in Pampanga Jun A. Malig Published 1:40 PM, April 13, 2019, Updated 1:41 PM, April 13, 2019 ANGELES CITY, Philippines – A Pampanga court has sentenced a 26-year-old computer technician to life imprisonment for acting as a co-conspirator in online sexual exploitation of children in this city.…

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by Vito Barcelo and Maricel V. Cruz, Manila Standard, Apr 12, 2019 A Philippine Statistics Authority official on Thursday defended the P10,481 estimated minimum budget needed by a family of five to survive in a month.

By: Ronnel W. Domingo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 12, 2019 The growth in Philippine-bound investments and tourist arrivals from mainland China is expected to help keep the domestic real estate sector along an upward trajectory in 2019, based on positive positions across segments seen so far in the first quarter.

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By: Neil Arwin Mercado, INQUIRER.net, Apr 11, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Private sector employees can now opt to work outside their workplace using telecommunications and computer technologies, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Thursday.

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by Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News, Apr 10, 2019 MANILA (UPDATE 2) — Poverty incidence fell in the first half of 2018 from three years prior, putting the government on track to meet its target of lifting at least 1 million people from poverty every year, official data released Wednesday showed.

By Cai U. Ordinario & Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas, BusinessMirror, Apr 10, 2019 FARMERS may have to wait until the third quarter at the earliest to benefit from a fund that will consist of tariffs from rice imports, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

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by Sunstar, Apr 10, 2019 A 22-YEAR-OLD pregnant woman was caught offering to sexually abuse her six-year-old daughter and her sisters, ages 18 and 21, and stream live the exploitation in exchange for money from an online predator.

by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) – Apr 10, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has been asked to reopen the $609-million labor case between 2,300 former overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East and American military contractor Kellog-Brown & Root.