Good News....

[baron]

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A Canadian company is set to spend at least $23 million for a copper project somewhere in Zamboanga Peninsula. Said project will boost our mining potentials as much as it shows confidence by our foreign counterparts.

Hopefully, more investors will come and join our country.

[grabehbebe]

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, led by the Philippines, has started mapping out schemes to promote and protect the welfare of all migrant workers.

Along with other government ministers, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo joined UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in seeking "a fresh start and de-politicization of the UN’s work in human rights."

Manalo said as member of the UN body, the Philippines has co-sponsored a resolution on the Right to Development and a decision on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration against racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN2006070668601.html

[grabehbebe]

Wage boards to approve pay increase in 4 regions

WAGE boards in four regions across the country are set to issue new pay hike orders for minimum wage earners, the Department of Labor and Employment announced yesterday.

Labor Secretary Arturo Brion said the the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in the Ilocos, Mimaropa, Eastern Visayas and Northern Mindanao regions are set to release the wage orders within this week.

Brion said the RTWPBs and the National Wages and Productivity Commission are scheduled to sign their wage orders today.

The RTWPB in Northern Mindanao is also expected to integrate a pending P16 cost of living allowance plus a new Cola ranging from P15-20 per day into the basic minimum salary.

The RTWPBs in the Ilocos and Mimaropa regions are set to hold an en banc deliberation tomorrow.
The minimum wage in Northern Mindanao range from P218 for nonagricultural wage workers and P210 for agricultural workers while agricultural workers in Eastern Visayas earn P206-P202.

Minimum wage earners in the nonagriculture in the Ilocos region receive P212 and P198 in agriculture.
In Mimaropa, a minimum wage earner receives P216-197 for nonagriculture and agriculture.

source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?...02_july10_2006

[tackielarla]

Nice! Would this include private companies, by any chance?

[grabehbebe]

Im really not so sure, but according to the news, it will be depends on the company (ies) safe?! hehehe

Any, I have heard that PGMA's rating of dissatifcation is now decreasing. Although its negative, it still improving. According to SWS the net satisfaction rating of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo rose 12 points to -13, with 34 percent of Filipinos saying they were satisfied with her performance and 48 percent saying they were not.

The President’s rating has gone up the past two quarters -- from -30 in December 2005 and -25 in March 2006.

source: http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerhea...rticle_id=9361

[baron]

^^ Well, it seems the people are very much appreciating the efforts of the president to work towards progress. They have seen now that the president is serious in implementing political and economic reforms within the government.

Even if the president is faced with so much allegations on whatever she does, whether it be for the abolition of the death penalty, visit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other European countries, implementation of RVAT, and so many others, the people still knows that she is working hard for the benefit of the Filipino people.

[grabehbebe]

SuperFerry cuts its fare going to Visayas and Mindanao region to boost our local tourism in the country. This is a good offer for everyone for they can now visit and enjoy the nice spots around the mindanao and visayas region with small amount of fare.

@: http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200607170714.htm

[wak_wak]

Supercat Promo..

710 pesos one way.. but if you avail the roundtrip, the return trip will be 210 pesos..

[grabehbebe]

The 20 kidnapped Pinoy Seamen are reportedly freed from Somalia from the hands of the Pirates. They are now on its way here in the Philippines to go back to their families. Reports said nobody was hurt during the captured and that it wa never true that one of them died, one of them was just forced to tell that. It was never cleared if there's a negotiation done.

Source: http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200607180407.htm

[baron]

The peso regained its strength when it reached P51.87. After the president's SONA, it seems the stock market and the peso-dollar exchange rate increased, owing to the fact that the business sector approved what the president presented before the Congress. The business sector was satisfied since the speech focused to a better economy for us.