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Local layoffs worry
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22M women globally face retrenchments–ILO |
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Local job losses are outpacing the number of laid-off overseas
Filipino workers (OFWs)—and causing greater worry for the
government—the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
said Friday.
Also on Friday, the International
Labor Organization reported that some 22 million jobs could be lost
because of the global economic crisis.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Philippine mining
hit hard by global crisis
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Mining companies in the
Philippines are cutting staff, putting some projects on hold and
scrambling for cash as the global crisis drags down prices
commodities, industry officials said.
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FEATURE
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After 26 years,
Filipinos still asking who killed Ninoy
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As the last soldiers convicted
for their part in the assassination of opposition leader Benigno
“Ninoy” Aquino Jr. walked free this week, Filipinos asked: Who
ordered the hit that changed the face of Philippine politics?
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Metro Manila among
most vulnerable to climate change
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Metro Manila is the seventh most
vulnerable to climate change among 132 provinces or districts in
Southeast Asia, according to a new study.
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SC FIRES JUDGE
ASSIGNED TO DANIEL SMITH’S CASE
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A lower court judge who was
earlier assigned to handle the celebrated rape case of US serviceman
Lance Corporal Daniel Smith was dismissed from the service for gross
misconduct,...
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Public Attorney,
CHR clash on ‘rubout’ case
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Lawyer Persida Rueda-Acosta, the
chief of the Public Attorney’s Office, on Friday asked the
Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to stop its investigation of the
alleged rubout of three suspected car thieves by the Quezon City...
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Francis M dies of
leukemia, 44
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Francis Magalona, even at age 44,
maintained his young boyish appeal that as a teenager easily won him
stardom.
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Biometrics to
cleanse voters’ lists for 2010
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Lawmakers on Thursday night
approved on second reading through viva voce vote a proposal seeking
to “cleanse” the voters’ registration lists and remove entries
for double or multiple registrants through biometrics...
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Drug Czar goes
after big dealer
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President Gloria Arroyo ordered
law enforcement agencies to investigate the escape of a big-time
drug suspect, allegedly after shelling out a P50-million bribe,
Malacañang said Friday.
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Speaker endorses
impeachment case to panel
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The House Speaker has endorsed
the impeachment complaint against the Ombudsman on Thursday night,
just before lawmakers were to go on a month-long Holy Week recess
beginning today.
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