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by Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News, Aug 15, 2018 MANILA – The Department of Health on Wednesday said it was backing proposals to increase the tobacco excise tax rate to P90 per pack to augment the proposed Universal Health Care law.

By John Mangun, Business Mirror, Aug 15, 2018 Earthquakes can create disasters, which have plagued civilizations from earliest times. The first recorded tremor happened in 1831 BC in China’s Shandong province.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) – Aug 15, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Nineteen more groups have expressed their support for the economic managers and joined the call to Congress to carefully consider the costs of moving to a federal system of government.

by Emmanuel Tupas (The Philippine Star) – Aug 15, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — A man arrested for online trafficking four years ago was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Cebu City regional trial court (RTC) on Monday.

by Alexis Romero with Lawrence Agcaoili, Cecille Suerte Felipe (The Philippine Star) – Aug 14, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte wants solutions to the concerns of economic managers and business groups that urged Congress to assess the costs and risks of the proposed shift to a federal form of government.

by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) – with Mayen Jaymalin, Aug 14, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Duterte administration’s campaign against “endo” or end of contract labor practice got another legal boost.

by Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star), Aug 14, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The country’s economic managers should rethink their stand on the farm industry and consider giving it greater attention instead of blaming it for the growth slowdown in the second quarter, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said yesterday.

by Jovic Yee, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug 14, 2018 Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said he had secured from the country’s biggest group of employers its commitment to regularize by yearend 300,000 workers as its contribution to the government’s campaign to end to contractualization.

by Yana Argarin, Aug 14, 2018, Manila Standard The government has unveiled a strategy on rice importation to tame consumer prices, after inflation rate hit a five-year high of 5.7 percent in July. Filipino farmers, however, feel left out.

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by Edith Regalado (The Philippine Star) – Aug 14, 2018 DAVAO CITY, Philippines — At least three national political parties and six local groupings forged an alliance with the Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) regional party of President Duterte’s daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, yesterday morning.

By Teddy Locsin Jr., BusinessMirror, Aug 13, 2018 The Global Compact on Migration Conference in the Philippines, August 14 and 15, preparatory to its formal adoption in Morocco in December 2018.

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Business groups warn lawmakers of risks, costs of new gov’t system by Othel V. Campos, Manila Standard, Aug 13, 2018 INFLUENTIAL business groups on Sunday called on lawmakers to carefully weigh the costs and risks associated with the proposed shift to a federal system of government.

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BY THE MANILA TIMES, Aug 12, 2018 A total of P1.3 billion for conditional cash transfer/modified CCT beneficiaries was not withdrawn from 2008 to 2017, according to state auditors.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug 12, 2018 Local business groups are worried about the consequences of shifting to a federal form of government, echoing the woes earlier raised by some of the country’s economic managers.

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By Leslie Ann Aquino, Manila Bulletin, Aug 10, 2018 The Department of Labor and Employment on Friday has warned the public against the modus of withdrawing escrow deposits of recruitment agencies using falsified “certificate of no pending appealed case”.

Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia says tightening of monetary policy by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ‘will not directly address the supply side of inflation’ by Ralf Rivas, Rappler, Aug 10, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – Markets may have hailed the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for showing force and implementing its strongest policy rate hike in…

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By Rea Cu, Businessmirror, Aug 8, 2018 THE Philippines risks its positive credit rating status if fiscal issues, in line with the shift to a federal form of government, remain unaddressed, the Department of Finance (DOF) told legislators.

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by Ghio Ong With Delon Porcalla(The Philippine Star), Aug 7, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The proposed federal form of government for the Philippines could “breed a tyrannical, oppressive and unjust regime,” former chief justice Hilario Davide Jr. has warned.

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AI to take over ‘domain of knowledge’ jobs Marian McHugh, 06 August 2018 A recent report from PwC indicated that artificial intelligence (AI) will create as many jobs as it will destroy over the next two decades. While the news was optimistic about the technology’s effects on workforces, it brought into stark relief those jobs…