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What to do when you’re the target of a by Emma Seppala, December 2, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/12/what-to-do-when-youre-the-target-of-a-hurtful-office-rumor?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvardbiz When Caroline moved to a new city to take on a job at a company she was thrilled to join, she was surprised when she had a hard time building friendships and positive relationships with her colleagues. A few…

By Joyce Ilas, CNN Philippines, October 4, 2016 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Karlo Salazar and Kenji Nuñez have been together for almost 10 years and they plan to stay together ’till death do they part. The couple is planning to tie the knot in 2018 in California or in New Zealand, where same-sex marriage…

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The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement.

Twenty five years after the term “emotional intelligence” was first introduced by academics, thousands of independent scientific studies have highlighted the importance of managing your own and others’ emotions in relation to career success, job performance, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

Filipinos are in favor of legalizing divorce in the country, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed. The SWS poll, taken from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, found that 60 percent of adult Filipinos agreed and only 29 disagreed that “married couples who have already separated and cannot reconcile anymore should be…

MANILA – The Supreme Court has ordered courts not to be too strict in interpreting the provision on psychological incapacity as a ground for the nullity of marriages.

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has taken a liberal stand in allowing the annulment of marriage on the ground of psychological incapacity. The SC reversed itself and nullified a marriage of private individuals, saying that a strict implementation of the rules would allow diagnosed sociopaths, schizophrenics, narcissists and the like to stay married.

MANILA — Just because the Philippines is the last country on Earth to refuse to allow divorce for most of its citizens, that doesn’t mean Filipinos don’t fall out of love with one another.

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MANILA, Philippines – Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Farinas said yesterday Congress can approve a bill allowing divorce in the country, but if it becomes a law, the Supreme Court will surely strike it down as unconstitutional.

As early as six in the morning, there is an air of anticipation and urgency among the people lined up outside the office of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) along Osmeña Highway in Manila. Among those people are Filipino spouses or partners of foreign nationals. They come early to jostle for limited slots in…

Marriage is not always “happy ever after” in the Philippines. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority indicated that one out of five married couples in the country are in splitsville, GMA News’ 24 Oras reported Thursday.

MANILA – The Philippines ranked first in a global index, first released by a research group in 2013, that attempted to quantify a population’s feelings of love. One year after the its release, one of the authors of the study still marvels at “the most amazing (non-linear) relationship ever discovered in economic data.”

MANILA, Philippines – Most Filipinos do not see themselves entering into a relationship with someone of the same sex, according to a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

FEWER COUPLES are getting married and those who choose to tie the knot are doing so at a later age, government data showed, as weddings become more and more expensive. Web site gives new twist to ‘arranged’ marriages

At least 13.9 million Filipinos are single parents who carry the burden of raising their family by themselves. On This premise, a party-list lawmaker, Rep. Carol Jayne Lopez has asked President Aquino to certify as urgent a bill proposing amendments to the Solo Parents Welfare Act of 2002.

Leaders of the House of Representatives on Sunday rejected the possibility of passing a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – This is definitely not a love story. We all want our happy ever after, don’t we? When we were in high school, we would swoon over our celebrity crushes, dress up nice during soirees, feel good when our prom dates turn out to be handsome young men who treat us like princesses.…

Mama, watch this with me. It’s so inspiring,” my 12-year-old daughter, Sophi, said, laptop in hand. We settled in bed and logged on to www.ted.com, a website devoted to “ideas worth spreading,” as their tagline says. Ted.com is an online cache of “riveting talks by remarkable people.”

For so many years now, some sectors, especially women and the leftist groups have been agitating for changes in our laws which they consider outmoded and not in keeping with the times. Certain age old Filipino customs and traditions embodied in these laws have been assailed because they are not allegedly in step with realities…

Dear PAO, Greetings! I have three children born out of wedlock but the father acknowledged them in their birth certificates. Before we were living happily but later on he abandoned us. According to his cousin, he has a new lady. Presently, he is working in Saudi Arabia and I want to ask for financial support…

Guest column contributed by Ric Saludo’s colleague Maria Carmina Olivar Last of two parts HIGHLY Westernized societies like ours tend to look to America in search for guidance, or at least a reference point on weighty issues. Hence, it may be worthwhile to see how the United States has handled the matter of divorce through…

Guest column contributed by Ric Saludo’s colleague Maria Carmina Olivar First of two parts THE recent renewed push to legalize divorce by amending the Family Code is not as controversial the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill—at least not yet. But divorce legislation—or rather the lack of it—has given the Philippines somewhat of a unique status in…

There are, perhaps, millions who marry around the world every day. Yet, perhaps, too, half as many married couples separate or get estranged from each other every day. What accounts for the break up of marriages? How do couples who are so in love on their wedding day end up hating each other?

For continuously failing to solve our country’s poverty problem, some members of Congress and the Executive seem to be bent on intruding into, instead of protecting the more personal aspects of the citizens’ life — marriage and family. Aside from the RH bill, they are now proposing a Divorce bill.

MANILA, Philippines—The absence of divorce in the country is a “point of honor for the Philippines,” according to the new papal nuncio, suggesting that the Vatican favored the Catholic Church’s opposition to legislation allowing divorce here.

Marriage is losing its luster for many in the Philippines, with an increasing number of couples starting families out of wedlock, the government census office said yesterday. More than 37 percent of the 1.78 million babies born in Asia’s Roman Catholic outpost in 2008 had unmarried mothers, it said in a statement, citing results of…

I could not believe my ears when a friend told me that she was opposed to having divorce in the Philippines. I was bewildered. After all, her husband had left her for a younger woman years ago. He had since lived with the woman and their common children as though his primary responsibility was to…

MANILA — When citizens of the small Mediterranean nation of Malta voted in a referendum last month to legalize divorce, they reignited debate in the Philippines, one of the last countries, along with Vatican City, where divorce is still banned.