The Civil Service Commission conducted a survey in 2006 which revealed a huge gap in the salaries of public sector employees and their counterparts in the private sector. It showed that government professional and technical personnel are earning 40 percent less than those employed in the private sector. The disparity is more pronounced at the [...]

Some private companies have committed, through the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), to help in the undertaking of key infrastructure projects. This was confirmed by Donald Dee, chairman emeritus of PCCI, who said that the several companies have agreed to put up at least 30 percent of the proposed P100- billion special infrastructure [...]

The Lopezes is out to sell its 24.5 percent stake at Rockwell Land Corp. They are expecting to raise money by as much as P1.7 billion from the sale of their interest in the upscale property developer. This was disclosed by Angel Ong, president of Benpres Holdings Corp.,  during the company’s stockholders’ meeting at Benpres [...]

The Department of Health is continuously finding ways on how to provide good help to everybody even the less fortunate ones. With the continuous increase in prices of almost everything nowadays including the locally available medicines, DOH is advocating the use of herbal medicines. Several herbs and plants in the Philippine backyards and fields were [...]

The battle for wireless broadband intensifies between the two giant telecommunications companies. For its part Smart Communications Inc., which is the wireless of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., is looking to double its number of subscribers as it rollout its High Speech Packet Access (HSPA) network.
Orlando Vega, chief wireless advisor of Smart said “At [...]

Starting Friday, US television stations will be making the switch from analog broadcast to digital-only signal, in doing so, three million US homes will be going to end up with a blank screen on their TV sets.
Anna Gomez, acting head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said “The overwhelming majority of Americans are [...]

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Local fast food leader Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) emerged as the most-admired company in the Philippines in the most recent Asian Wall Street Journal’s annual Asia 200 survey.
The company also ranked number one in terms of corporate reputation and innovation.
The corporation’s tenacity in the face of the global economic downturn has earned for it the [...]

If you want to learn online trading, you will appreciate this website that I have stumbled upon. I’m referring to the Online Trading Academy which have been handling online classes on how to do online trading for quite a while now. Learn the different “How To Trade Options” as well the basic trading techniques and [...]

Mostof the readers of this blog are entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs, or at least people who are looking for online oppoturnities. Here is yet another online opportunity – spread betting on gold, which could be likened to online trading, to say the least.
Some refer to it too as online betting, although it does not necessarily refer [...]

The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) had recently received, and accepted, an invitation from the Trade and Investment Promotion Institute of Macau to showcase Cebu’s delicacies in its upcoming Product Catalogue show from June 22 to 26 this year.
This was disclosed by Carmel de Pio-Salvador, chairperson of the South African business council of [...]

The Commission on Election (COMELEC) has granted Smartmatic and its Philippine partner Total Information Management Inc. the winning vote in their bid to provide 80,000 vote counting machines at a cost of $152 million.
The automation of the country’s national elections next year will be a first for the Philippines, and COMELEC officials hope it can [...]

Our farmers suffer too much loss because of too much rain and heavy flooding. According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), crops losses due to flooding average about 250,000 tons each year. And about 370,000 hectares of rice-growing land in the Philippines are unfortunately vulnerable to flooding.

Filipino high school students once again gain international recognition as they placed third in the recently concluded International Regional Mathematics League (IRML) contest held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The IRML is part of the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) contest. The ARML contest is for American teams while the IRML is for international teams that [...]

Thanks to the Internet, the world is now a smaller to market to. Every entrepreneur now wants to have a website to be able to reach more potential clients. But even before getting your site up there for the world to see, you need to have website functional specifications so your website designer would know [...]

Not many people are aware of this very enterprising venture, but I know of some friend who are into this and have made quite a fortune. I am referring to house flipping, the act of buying a real estate property with the intention of selling it at a profit. It is not exactly an easy [...]

Globe Telecom, Inc. is getting aggressive in its bid to capture a bigger share in the broadband market, it is investing in the latest technology to reach 20 millions users by 2012.
Merchi Orlina, head of Globe Telecom’s Consumer Broadband Group said, “Our competitor is three years ahead of us, so we really need a lot [...]

“PAL is aware of the challenges facing the airline industry. We hope to adapt and cope with the current market volatility by focusing on product improvement, asset and cost management and business efficiency.” These were the words of Philippine Airlines (PAL) president Jaime J. Bautista, issued on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association’s [...]

The Pacific Online Systems Corp. is looking to add 200 new terminals by the end of the year. The exclusive online lottery system provider of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in the Visayas and Mindanao will be further expanding its operation nationwide, and it is hoping that by the end of 2009, it will have [...]

One of the country’s leading universal is once again launching its program which aims to honor the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their children. The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is once again holding The Search for Ten Outstanding Expat Pinoy Children which was introduced by BPI’s Overseas Banking Group in 2007.