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By Shenna Jane T. Parado, BusinessWorld, May 1, 2018 Almost four (4) years have lapsed since the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, or Republic Act 10533 (RA 10533), introduced the Enhanced Basic Education Program or the K to 12 to the Philippines. By now, we have our first graduates of the K-to-12 Program.

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By: Cielito F. Habito, Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 01, 2018 Today is International Workers Day, and like in most of the world, it’s Labor Day in the Philippines, a public holiday in honor of our workers. It has become customary for the government to announce something meaningful for the labor sector on this day. Through…

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By AMITA LEGASPI, GMA News, May 1, 2018 Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said Tuesday passing a law that puts an end to ‘endo’ will be one of the priorities of the chamber when it resumes session later this month.

by Steven Pinker, May 1, 2018 The Enlightenment principle that we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human flourishing may seem obvious, trite, old-fashioned. But it is not. More than ever, the ideals of reason, science, humanism, and progress need a wholehearted defense. We take its gifts for granted: newborns who will live more…

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‘Bago niya pauwiin, tingnan muna niya ang unemployed sa Pilipinas. Sa Boracay nga, andami nang walang trabaho. Bigyan niya muna ng trabaho ang mga nasa Pilipinas,’ says a professional who has worked in Kuwait for 35 years by Don Kevin Hapal, Rappler, Apr 30, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – “Kung ‘yan ang desisyon ng Pangulo, why…

By Eddie O’ Connor,, BusinessWorld, Apr 30, 2018 AS the economy in the Philippines continues to grow, energy demand races ahead. Recent analysis by the Asia Development Bank and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) suggests that energy consumption will grow by 40% by 2025, with an 85% increase in energy demand for electricity.

By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, Apr 30, 2018 The country’s business-process outsourcing (BPO) sector should not fear the havoc that would be wreaked by automation on millions of Filipinos working in call centers, according to local and international experts.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 27, 2018 Employers expect an increase in the cost of labor amid the government’s move to regularize more workers, officials in the private sector said.

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by Liz Lee, Reuters, Apr 27, 2018 KUANTAN – When Malaysia’s political parties unfurled their election flags and banners this month, Prime Minister Najib Razak’s critics sniggered on social media that the manufacturer named on banners of his ruling coalition was Chinese.

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By: Julius N. Leonen – @JLeonenINQ INQUIRER., Apr 27, 2018 Three people were killed in a fire that hit a commercial establishment in Sta. Cruz, Manila early Friday.

It’s a go: Banks offer real-time fund transfer service Money can move in a jiffy through this platform. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has rolled out the InstaPay service on Monday, April 23 meant to process real-time fund transfers across different banks and digital wallets.

By Agence France-Presse Payments from immigrants back to their home countries rebounded to reach a new record in 2017 but the costs of transferring funds also increased, the World Bank said Monday.

by Michelle Ong, ABS-CBN News, Apr 26, 2018 MANILA – Some Japanese companies may relocate their operations to other countries in Southeast Asia if fiscal incentives are removed in the second package of tax reforms in the Philippines, the head of the Japanese business lobby warned on Thursday.

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By Samuel P. Medenilla, Businessmirror, Apr 26, 2018 LOOKING for a job in the country is usually a monthlong gamble. This was revealed by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in the agency’s data from 2010 to 2015, which showed job seekers would usually spend from a month (4.6 weeks) or more (5.3 weeks) to find…

The payments encouraged beneficiaries to take work that doesn’t pay a living wage. By Leonid Bershidsky, Apr 26, 2018 KELA, the Finnish social security agency, has failed to secure the funding it needs to extend its universal basic income experiment beyond this year. Although it’s sad that this grand leftist idea is suffering another setback,…

By Eimor P. Santos, CNN Philippines, Apr 25, 2018 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 24) — Two years ago, then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte promised to end contractualization in a week.

by ABS-CBN News, Apr 25, 2018 MANILA – The European business lobby on Wednesday again cautioned against removing fiscal incentives for companies currently enjoying them and said the government’s proposed new corporate income tax rate still falls short when compared to those in other countries.

Most of the broadsides ignore how much the field has changed. By Noah Smith, Apr 25, 2018 In last July, writer and researcher John Rapley penned an article in the British newspaper the Guardian entitled “How Economics Became a Religion.” This followed on the heels of shorter but equally acerbic critiques by Simon Jenkins in…

Manama, Apr.25 (BNA): The Undersecretary for International Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Shaikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, met at the Ministry’s General Court today, the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, Sarah Lou Y. Arriola, currently on visit to Bahrain.

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