Don’t worry – those of us who are adults now probably won’t live to be a hundred eyars old. But babies being born today, may very well reach 100, according to a report first published in the medical magazine, Lancet and subsequently picked up by the general media. Read the rest of this entry »
Do you want to live to be 100?
January 31, 2010
Overqualified and underemployed
January 31, 2010
How to avoid age discrimination
There was an overwhelming response to my earlier article on age discrimiantion against those 40 years old and above. Even now I am receiving questions regarding the topic and so it seems time for an update on the matter. Read the rest of this entry »
Britain takes action after student visa surge
January 31, 2010
LONDON, United Kingdom—Britain has temporarily suspended student visa applications from northern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh after a sharp rise in numbers, the UK Border Agency (Ukba) said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Gov’t urged to cut deals with neighboring countries
January 31, 2010
TO PRESERVE RP’S $1-B TUNA INDUSTRY:
A local chief executive of a city in Metro Manila has warned the government that the economy of Gen. Santos City, and Mindanao in general, would suffer immensely with the implementation of a two-year ban on tuna fishing in the Central and Western Pacific. Read the rest of this entry »
Left-handed cut
January 31, 2010
LEFT-HANDED CUT: The country’s estimated 4.6 million senior citizens can only rejoice with the plan of President Gloria Arroyo to sign into law a bill passed by Congress exempting them from the 12-percent Value-Added Tax on goods and services. Read the rest of this entry »
PCOS machines must be error-free all the time
January 31, 2010
NO MARGIN FOR ERROR: The Commission on Elections must not take lightly the glitches experienced in the second field test of its precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines the other day. Read the rest of this entry »
3 million Pinoys benefited from poverty alleviation program
January 31, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – Nearly three million indigent Filipinos benefited from government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), a poverty alleviation strategy implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elderly among most frequent child abusers’
January 31, 2010
yesterday that even old people or senior citizens up to 80 years old have abused children left under their care. Read the rest of this entry »
Health dept to step up drive on call centers
January 31, 2010
HEALTH authorities in Central Visayas said they would focus their efforts on curbing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among call center employees in the region. Read the rest of this entry »
Investments expected to pour in ’10
January 30, 2010
MANILA, Philippines–After getting huge investments from large foreign firms last year despite the recession, the Department of Trade and Industry is confident that the country will get more infusions this year as the global economy has already started to recover. Read the rest of this entry »
