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— By Miron Lulic, founder and CEO at SuperMoney More than 1 million reverse mortgages, or Home Equity Conversion Mortgages, have been sold since the government program that insures them started in 1990.

There are tragedies in a new list prepared by LinkedIn. Some of them are in the section that shows which jobs have grown in this era of artificial intelligence. By Chris Matyszczyk for Technically Incorrect | Sept 18, 2018

by Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Inquirer, Sep 18, 2018 Sugar-based food products made here in the Philippines might lose to their imported counterparts from Southeast Asia partly due to the prohibitive price of domestic sugar.

By Elijah Felice Rosales, BusinessMirror, Sept 18, 2018 The semiconductors industry group said one of the country’s top export revenue earners could be forced to lay off 140,000 workers once fiscal incentives are rationalized under the second round of tax reforms.

by Raymund Catindig (The Philippine Star) – Sept 17, 2018 TUGUEGARAO, Cagayan – Nearly 100 people are feared dead in a landslide that buried a mining shelter in Itogon, Benguet during the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong on Saturday.

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By RACHEL KING, Sept 17, 2018 Problems with salary negotiations? Workplace politics? Sunday scaries? (Yes, the struggle is real.) If any of these things are a problem for you, don’t worry—at least in the sense that you’re not alone. These are among the top 10 challenges that employees in the United States are facing right…

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By Jeremy Kahn, Sept 17, 2018 Machines and automated software will be handling fully half of all workplace tasks within seven years, a new report from the World Economic Forum forecasts. But the group said technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and precision medicine, could create more jobs than they threaten.

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By Eimor P. Santos, CNN Philippines Staff, Sept 15, 2018 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 15) — Landslides triggered by Typhoon Ompong left two emergency responders dead in the Cordillera region, disaster officials said Saturday.

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By Ben Garcia, Kuwait Times Sponsors view domestic helpers as child-like and untrustworthy, despite the extensive responsibilities they shoulder in caring for the home and children.

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by Jennifer P. Rendon, Sep 17, 2018 AN AUSTRALIAN national and his Filipino live-in partner were arrested after authorities swooped down on an alleged cyberporn hub in Pavia, Iloilo, morning of Sept 15, 2018.

https://www.trendtopstoaies.com/2018/09/the-asia-pacific-region-lost-126.html, Sept 14, 2018 The Asia-Pacific region suffered two daily casualties of $126 million each day. The statistics were released in a report presented on September 13, at a conference in the framework of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN held in Hanoi.

by Louise Maureen Simeon with Evelyn Macairan(The Philippine Star), Sep 14, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is expected to import more rice next year as local production will not be enough to cover the demand for the country’s main staple, according to the latest report of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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The ‘Trabaho’ tax bill, explained The Tax Reform for Attracting Better and Higher Quality Opportunities Bill — or the Trabaho bill, for short — is the second package of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law.

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By Kris Crismundo, Sept 13, 2018 MANILA — Call center applicants should learn to speak English with American, Australian, or British accents as business process outsourcing (BPO) clients have expressed preference for “near-native” English speakers.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018—- The Philippines is included in the United Nations’ (UN) list of “shameful” countries which it said had carried out reprisals or intimidation against people cooperating with it on human rights through killings, torture and arbitrary arrests.