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by Harold James, Apr 10, 2018 Explore the latest strategic trends, research and analysis Further reading arrow grey Economic and financial issues nowadays tend to be discussed in intellectual silos, by specialists who give little mind to security concerns or the interplay between national and international objectives. But sooner or later, economists will realize that…

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By: Alvin Barcelona, Inquirer, Apr 10, 2018 Nakilala na ang isa sa dalawang nasawi sa bumigay na crane sa bahagi ng Edsa sa Pasay City kaninang pasado ala-una ng tanghali.

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The jury had been out on the productivity effect of working from home. It’s returned with a surprising verdict. By Scott Mautz, Author There has been much debate about working from home and whether or not it’s a productivity boost or major productivity drain. Paranoid managers envision employees lying on their couches at home in…

by Rhodina Villanueva (The Philippine Star), Apr 10, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Duterte government’s decision to boost imports to solve the rice crisis will just threaten the country’s rice self-sufficiency, a group warned yesterday.

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by Christell Fatima M. Tudtud (The Freeman) – Apr 9, 2018 CEBU, Philippines — Two sisters were arrested for alleged sex trafficking while their three young victims were rescued during a police operation in a well-known hotel in Barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City Saturday night.

Minors flee Pampanga farm; QC cops arrest traffickers By: Matthew Reysio-Cruz – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 09, 2018 Two of four minors forced to work as farmhands in Pampanga province escaped on Friday by walking for six hours to get to the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) where they got on a bus bound for…

by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) – Apr 9, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Mere approval of anomalous contracts does not automatically make government officials liable, the Supreme Court said.

DOLE to regularize 300,000 ‘endo’ employees in 2018 The Department of Labor and Employment is aiming to regularize up to 300,000 “endo” or contractual employees on less than six month deals.

Eleven percent of the total 52,280 Filipinos who have HIV and AIDS are migrant workers, a party-list representative said on Sunday.

by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star) – Apr 8, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Economists now see inflation surpassing the four percent upper target set by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which may prompt monetary authorities to raise interest rates as early as this quarter.

BY THE MANILA TIMES, APR 8, 2018 THE small, vocal advocacy for the resurrection of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), by now Southeast Asia’s most famous white elephant, is remarkably resilient, so there is little reason to believe that yet another reality-based rejection of their cause will stop them or even slow them down.

by Patrizia Paola C. Marcelo, Businessworld, Apr 8, 2018 PHILIPPINE smartphone shipments declined by 7% to about 15 million units in 2017, the International Data Corp. (IDC) said.

ABS-CBN News, Apr 07, 2018 HomeJobs Philippines, an Australian-led job search firm, will soon launch in the Philippines to provide free platform for Filipinos who are looking to find home-based work.

by ABS-CBN News Apr 07, 2018 Nasagip ng mga pulis ang limang menor de edad mula sa isang itikan sa Pampanga Biyernes ng gabi kung saan umano sila pinagtatrabaho sa nakapanlulumong kondisyon.

World leaders urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a ‘tipping point’ by Michael Savage Policy editor, Apr 7, 2018 The world’s richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world’s wealth by 2030, according to a shocking analysis that has lead to a cross-party call for action.

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By GERARD NAVAL, Apr 06, 2018 JOLLIBEE Foods Corp. (JFC) may have to regularize up to 50,000 more contractual employees, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said yesterday.

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By Nelson S. Badilla, Businessmirror, Apr 5, 2018 Citing the order handed down recently by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to Jolibee Food Corp., a labor group advocating the end of job contractualization, or endo, expressed belief that President Duterte, through the DOLE, can do a much better job in regularizing more contractual…

By: Daxim L. Lucas – Reporter / @daxinq Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The central bank has finally hinted at acting against the accelerating pace of price increases in the country, hours after the government announced that the March inflation rate blew past official estimates to hit a five-year high.

By: Roy Stephen C. Canivel, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Apr 05, 2018 The Philippines may soon lose its eligibility for a trade perk from the European Union (EU) which is aimed at poorer nations, in view of a report that says the country may reach upper middle income status in 2019.

By: Ben O. de Vera, INQ Inquirer Business, Apr 05, 2018 Consumer prices rose 4.3 percent in March or above the government’s 2-4 percent target range for 2018 on the back of a double-digit jump in prices of “sin” products last month.

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