The Philippines should create more investment opportunities in agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and mining to escape the curse of jobless economic growth, experts and businessmen said Feb. 26, reports Inquirer.net/AFP. Economic growth in the Philippines has been among the highest in Asia in recent years, but the benefits have escaped the vast majority, particularly farm workers, they told an economic forum.
A survery showes that due to the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in several regions, Filipinos became less optimistic about their finances but more careful of their spending in the last three months of 2013 compared with the quarter before that, reports Rappler.com.
Foreigners with pending employment visa applications but have started to work in the Philippines are still required to secure a provisional working permit (PWP) from the Bureau of Immigration, reports Inquirer.net.
The number of Filipinos contracting HIV/AIDS has continuously increased, with the Department of Health recording 358 new HIV/AIDS cases in December 2013, which is 22 percent higher than the 293 cases the year before, reports Interaksyon.com.
Filipino fisherfolk continue to fish in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) despite China’s demand for permission to fish in the disputed territory, reports Inquirer.net.
The Philippine government vowed to check on the alleged abuses committed against Filipinos in Malaysia during the current crackdown on undocumented aliens, reports Inquirer.net.
Filipinos continue to fill what the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency describes as the most in-demand jobs abroad--domestic helpers, production workers, nurses, waiters and bartenders, cleaners, laborers, service workers, wiremen, plumbers and pipe fitters, welders and flame cutters, reports ABS-CBN News.
An unnamed 14-year-old Filipino boy died after falling from the 13th floor balcony of his apartment in Abdul Aziz Al Majid building, in Al Nahda on Wednesday evening, reports Gulf News. Police said the teen was a suicide.
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