Typhoon “Marce” intensifies, more provinces placed under storm signals -- Pagasa
MANILA, Sept. 8 (a)
Typhoon "Marce" has intensified as it moves toward Northern Luzon, placing several provinces in storm signal warnings, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said Monday afternoon.
In its 5 p.m. advisory, Pagasa said the provinces under Storm Signal No. 2 with 60-100 kph winds are Cagayan, Isabela and Northern Aurora. [FULL STORY]
DOLE forms team to implement labor agreements with Canada
MANILA, Sept. 8
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has begun efforts for the implementation of the labor agreements with western Canadian provinces, that will provide Filipino workers greater access to employment opportunities in Canada. [FULL STORY]
Local officials, Provincial Disaster Coordinating Councils and rescue teams have unilaterally declared Barangay Masara, Maco in this province as a “no man’s land”.
The area became unstable following two landslides that occurred last Saturday and Sunday, killing at least nine people, including four children, injured 24, with 14 still missing, including Barangay Chairman Jovencio Anquira (not Venancio as earlier published). [FULL STORY]
PARIS, FRANCE—Filipina babysitters like this one in France’s bustling capital continue to work harder to send more money back home. But given a US-generated financial crisis whose economic effects are felt both in the Philippines and in the countries where Filipinos work, an economist worries that the desire by OFWs to send more money ‘will not be physically sustainable to them. Photo by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO OFW JOURNALISM CONSORTIUM
Economist says crisis stretching OFWs’ ability to send money
by JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
MANILA, 6 Sep 2008
A US-generated financial crisis is testing overseas Filipino workers’ ability to send cash home, an economist said using government data on remittances.
“If OFW;s persist in sending more money, it will not be physically sustainable for them,” Alvin Ang told the OFW Journalism Consortium before monetary authorities reported on August 15 that OFWs sent home a record $1.5 billion in June. [FULL SRORY]
Manong Manuel caught in the act of meticulously weeding the Garden located just at the back of the Capitol Building. (PIA)
Bacolod City
8 September
Organic farming is taking off all over the country in response to both the demands of the domestic consumer, and the increasing appetitite from overseas markets. [FULL STORY & MORE PHOTOS]
A case like 6-year-old Rosie looking out from behind prison bars or 13 year old Josie prostituted to foreign men in a sex bar in Angeles city is enough to drive a normal person to anger, frustration and despair. Because it seemed to me at first that nothing could be done about it since some corrupt police, government officials and criminals of all nationalities are perpetrators, protectors and beneficiaries of the sexual slavery of women and children in the Philippines for over fifty years.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is poised to deport a British pedophile who is a wanted sex convict in his country.
Immigration commissioner Marcelino Libanan on Sunday said the pedophile, identified as Kriss McCord, will be expelled pursuant to a summary deportation order that the BI board of commissioners issued against him last Feb. 28. [FULL STORY]
The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers Association (LPGMA) made official Monday another 50-centavo price rollback or a total of P5.50 per 11-kilogram tank of liquefied petroleum gas.
The LPGMA said the rollback took effect 12:01 a.m. on Monday. [FULL STORY]
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