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By Samuel P. Medenilla, Businessmirror, Feb 27, 2018 Labor groups may not be able to get their preferred version of an executive order (EO) on job contractualization, which they expect President Duterte to sign in a forthcoming Palace meeting scheduled next month.

by ABS-CBN News, Feb 27, 2018 Authorities have rescued a three-year-old boy from a suspected cybersex operation in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu on Monday afternoon.

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by Melvin Gascon, Inquirer, Feb 27, 2018 TUGUEGARAO CITY — Filipino migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are calling on the government to stop employers there from trading their maids among themselves.

Duterte gives up on banning ‘endo’: You can’t stop contractualization because oligarchs don’t want to Another campaign promise of President Rodrigo Duterte bits the dust. After nearly two months in office, Duterte admitted that snuffing out ‘endo’ or contractualization was easier said than done.

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by BRIAN PUBLICOVER, Feb 26, 2018 The 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are on track to make solar and other renewables account for 23% of the region’s total primary energy supply (TPES) by 2025, but governments will need to create better policy and investment frameworks to make it happen, according…

By Samuel P. Medenilla, Businessmirror, Feb 26, 2018 The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said directly hired Filipino household service workers (HSW) are still banned from being deployed to Malaysia despite a new regulation of the Malaysian government relaxing its recruitment policy for migrant HSWs.

Sunday, February 25, 2018 By RONALD O. REYES, Feb 25, 2018 THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Anti-Human Trafficking Division rescued 13 cybersex victims, including minors, in separate operations in Tacloban City and Culaba town, Biliran province, last Friday, February 23. The victims were rescued when NBI agents conducted an entrapment operation against three suspects…

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By CHRIS VOSS May 25, 2016 It was 1998 and I was standing in a narrow hallway outside an apartment on the 27th floor of a high-rise in Harlem. I was the head of the New York City FBI Crisis Negotiation Team, and that day I was the primary negotiator.

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By: Ben O. de Vera – Reporter / @bendeveraINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 23, 2018 The Bureau of Internal Revenue has released the implementing rules and regulations of the new personal income tax rates under the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Act.

By: Ben O. de Vera – Reporter / @bendeveraINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb 23, 2018 Five hours daily is what Celest Colina spends on the road to report for work in Makati City and to get home in a subdivision near Fairview in Quezon City.

by Julie M. Aurelio, Julius N. Leonen, Inquirer, Feb 23, 2018 The fertility of Filipino women went down in 2017, a development which, the Commission on Population (PopCom) said, was due to increased use of modern family planning methods.

By Mayen Jaymalin, Marvin Sy, Pia Lee-Brago, Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star), Feb 22, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has recalled two more labor officials assigned in Kuwait for failing to take immediate and appropriate action on the case of slain Filipina domestic helper Joanna Demafelis.

SCORE LOWEST IN 5 YEARS by MDM, GMA News, Feb 22, 2018 The Philippines slipped in the global Corruption Perception Index 2017 after getting its lowest score in five years, and was even tagged as among the “worst offenders” in the Asia-Pacific Region.

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Reporting mechanisms will be strengthened after Filipino labor officials in Kuwait failed to take action when domestic helper Joanna Demafelis was first reported missing by Aika Rey, Rappler, Feb 22, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) set up a command center following the deaths of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)…

By: Jessa Mae O. Sotto, @cebudailynews, Feb 22, 2018 LABOR Secretary Silvestre Bello III yesterday named hospitals in the country as the number one violators of labor laws.

by Miguel R. Camus, Inquirer, Feb 21, 2018 The Philippines saw improvements for both 4G availability and speed although most of its neighbors in the region remained ahead by those measures, the latest crowdsourced survey by OpenSignal showed.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), Feb 21, 2018 MANILA, Philippines — Japanese firms in the Philippines are turning more bullish on their growth prospects this year, a business survey showed.

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Feb 20, 2018 – VOLUNTARY RESIGNATION SCHEMES MEANT TO BUST THE UNION Grabe! Despite the AMAPO/Hanjin MOA, Hanjin continues trying to undermine the union, say our Hanjin correspondents.

A new study indicates the main concern is a lack of transparency from employers. By Bob Violino | February 20, 2018 AI has become one of the great, meaningless buzzwords of our time. In this video, the Chief Data Scientist of Dun and Bradstreet explains AI in clear business terms.

Drew Frederick Shobbrook sexually exploits the girls and records them, then sells the videos on the internet by Lian Buan, Rappler, Feb 20, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – The Cebu Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 20 convicted on Tuesday, February 20, Australian national Drew Frederick Shobbrook of human trafficking, sentencing him to life in prison.