Students and youth groups are gearing up for a huge protest action against tuition and other school fee increase while public and private schools gear up for protests against tuition and other fee increases. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – At least 97 medicines will be sold at half their original prices starting March 31, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral announced Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

Malacañang, apparently defying the country’s influential bishops, on Thursday said that it would allow the Department of Health (DOH) to continue with free distribution of condoms but that the agency could approach the Cabinet if it wanted to reconcile conflicting policies. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – It was condoms on Valentine’s Day, and now it’s contraceptive pills.

Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral clarified yesterday that the government plans to give the contraceptive pills only to interested couples. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Businessmen are more optimistic that the domestic economy would recover from the worldwide economic slump this year on the back of moderate inflation, a steady stream of remittances from Filipinos abroad, election-related spending, and continued foreign investment inflows. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Majority of local companies said they will be increasing the wages of their employees this year, results of a survey conducted by Grant Thornton showed. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s imports surged by 17.9 percent to $3.89 billion in December 2009 from the same period in 2008, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – Perhaps the end of 2009 couldn’t have come sooner as it did – putting behind a year of reeling from Ondoy and the lingering effects of the nefarious sub-prime bubble burst of 2007 – the latter truly a shot heard around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

DAVAO CITY (22 February) -Thirty trade union leaders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao completed recently the National Workshop on Productivity and Labor Management Cooperation (LMC), focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Collective Bargaining. Read the rest of this entry »

WAGE HIKES have been ruled out in the short term by the government, which cited the lack of price pressures and a still-recovering economy. Read the rest of this entry »