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Patience
for jobs.
Young applicants inquire at the main booth at
Wednesday’s job fair, the Foreign Chambers Employment
Expo 2008, held at TriNoma Activity Center in Quezon
City. The Foreign Chambers of Commerce regularly holds
events like these to help members draw the best talent,
but in recent months they have been repeating complaints
that with declining quality of education and a serious
jobs-skills mismatch, it has been harder and harder to
get the right people for the jobs and enterprises they
create. --NONOY
LACZA |
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TOP STORIES |
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Tañamor’s golden dream ends
with unexpected early loss |
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HARRY
TANAMOR, one of only three of the country's realistic hopes
for a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics, crashed out
Wednesday night after he bowed, 3-6, to Ghana's Manyo Plange
in an uneventful light flyweight clash at the Beijing
Workers Stadium. |
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Still no medal for RP, but
officials eyeing next Games |
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BEIJING—Archer Mark Javier earned not a medal but the
experience of his life, and swimmer Christel Simms swam
expectedly not to the finals but to a new Philippine record
Wednesday in the 29th Olympics. |
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Napocor supply deals checked |
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THE
Department of Energy (DOE) has created an evaluation team to
review the procurement system of the National Power Corp. (Napocor)
for its fuel requirements, such as coal, diesel and bunker
fuel, amid persistent accusations of less-than-transparent
dealings in the award of huge supply contracts. |
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SC
tells oil firm to pay BOC P894M |
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THE Supreme
Court has ordered Chevron Philippines Inc. (formerly Caltex
Philippines) to pay the Bureau of Customs (BOC) the amount
of P893.78 million representing deficiency customs duties
for petroleum products it imported in 1996. |
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Cha-cha agenda in peace deal
sparks bipartisan resentment |
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SENATORS
crossed party lines on Wednesday to reject Malacañang’s
maneuver to push through Charter changes before the 2010
elections, purportedly to pave the way for a shift to a
federal system in order to accommodate a peace deal with
secessionist rebels in Mindanao. |
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UNO, IBON, NP reject bid for
Cha-cha |
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ANY move to
open the 1987 Constitution for amendments and revision now
will only give an opportunity for the Arroyo administration
to hatch a scheme to remain in power, the United Opposition
(Uno) said on Wednesday. |
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RP must market its edge as
software hub, says group |
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THERE is a
greater need to market the country as a software hub in the
global market, the Philippine Software Industry Association
(PSIA) said on Wednesday. |
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Food-security program pushed |
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CITY OF
MALOLOS—The government must come out with a holistic
approach to address the problems besetting the agriculture
sector in order to come out with a sustainable and doable
food-security program. |
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CA panel sees clues in records |
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THE clerk of
court of the Court of Appeals’ (CA) Eight Division on
Wednesday admitted before the Supreme Court’s (SC) three-man
panel that she was kept in the dark by the division justices
on their supposed deliberations conducted prior to the
promulgation of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) case on
June 23. |
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Solar Sports: Pinoy audience can’t have enough of Games |
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BEIJING—Filipinos get to see the action in the 29th Beijing
Olympics through Solar Sports, the exclusive Philippine
broadcaster of the Games, but demand back home arose for the
competitions to be shown on free TV. |
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11
firms vie for DMIA project |
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THE bidding
for the P6.47-billion Diosdado Macapagal International
Airport (DMIA) Terminal project has attracted 11 interested
proponents, including Asia’s Emerging Dragon Corp. (AEDC) of
Lucio Tan, Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) and some foreign firms.
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Evacuees in Pikit swell to 28,000 |
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PIKIT, North
Cotabato—Evacuees have turned some previously uninhabited
and untilled highway lots here into mushrooming tent cities
to escape the fighting that has spilled occasionally to the
national highways early this week. |
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LUIGI LOPA
(left), PLDT Business Development head, and Ma.Cristina
Coronel, president of Pointwest, field questions at the
press conference of the Philippine Software Industry
Association that discussed “The Philippines: The missing
piece of your global sourcing strategy.”
--NONIE REYES |
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