Inflation rose to 4.1 percent in April from 3.9 percent in March due to increases in the price of food, electricity and fuel, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), reports Philstar.com/Xinhua. Eastern Visayas in central Philippines, which bore the brunt of typhoon Haiya recorded the highest inflation rate among the regions in the country at 7.2 percent.
Overseas Absentee Voting Registration for the 2016 Presidential Elections started on Tuesday, May 6 and will go on until Oct. 31, 2015, reports Inquirer.net.
Sharing the Philippines’ concern for stability in the Asia-Pacific, visiting Japanese parliamentarians expressed support for the country’s arbitration bid against China over disputes in the South China Sea and Manila’s newest defense agreement with Washington D.C., reports Inquirer.net.
Countries in the Middle East will remain as top destinations for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), reports ABS-CBN News.
Dr. Jerry Umanos, the Filipino-American doctor killed in Afghanistan in April, was proud of his Filipino heritage, his 88-year-old father, Romeo Umanos, told Vice President and presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers concerns Jejomar Binay, reports GMA News.
More than 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in California may apply for driver's licenses starting Jan. 1, 2015 to apply, reports the Orange County Register. Information from the licenses may be used by immigration authorities only if court orders require it.
Member states of the European Union have rejected the proposed ban on Filipino seafarers, according to the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko), reports Inquirer.net. EU member states have endorsed the recommendation from the European Commission (EC) not to de-recognize the Filipino seafarers’ certificates of competency.
The number of poor Filipinos dropped amid the scorching economic growth in the first half of last year, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), reports Interaksyon.com. NEDA said poverty incidence slipped to 24.9 percent in the first six months of 2013 from 27.9 percent in the same period of 2012.
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