A labor group pushing for increased protection for workers from the Influenza A (H1N1) virus has urged the Ombudsman to investigate the recent awarding by the Department of Health (DOH) of a contract to supply influenza-testing machines to a foreign-owned firm.
In her final participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore this week, President Macapagal-Arroyo will seek a possible one-on-one meeting with US President Barack Obama to discuss a variety of issues including the Mindanao peace process.
(UPDATE) Former public works secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. formally declared, on Sunday, his intention to run for President in 2010 under the banner of the Lapiang Manggagawa party (renamed Philippine Labor and Peasant Party).
The series of killer storms that hit the country recently has kept government troops busy, thus hampering the Armed Forces' anti-insurgency operations, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. said on Sunday.
Migrant worker groups in Macau said on Sunday they would continue their campaign against a bill imposing taxes on the deployment of foreign domestic helpers and a six-month reentry ban on foreign workers who would pre-terminate their contracts.
The Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG) has disbursed a record P9.3 billion in calamity loans to more than 600,000 members in Metro Manila as well as northern, southern and Central Luzon, Vice President Noli de Castro said on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is visiting the country this week because of US concerns over a Senate resolution asking President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to rescind Manila's Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with Washington or seek for a renegotiation, according to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
