From the News! - Your Daily News » Research http://fromthenews.net Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 All it takes is a slip of paper at Intel http://fromthenews.net/all-it-takes-is-a-slip-of-paper-at-intel.htm http://fromthenews.net/all-it-takes-is-a-slip-of-paper-at-intel.htm#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:27:26 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5256 Maricar Cinco, Southern Luzon Bureau
Inquirer.net

MANILA, Philippines—All it took was a slip of paper.

That determined whether a worker goes or stays, at least for now.

It will tell if the worker is “Intel inside.”

The workers have… Read the rest

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Cebu Daily News

Picketing former employees of Giardini del Sole Wooden Furniture Inc. yesterday agreed not to block the entry of those still employed by the company into the firm’s factory in barangay Alang-Alang,… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/giardini-workers-managers-reach-accord.htm/feed 0 Jan inflation slows to 10-mo low at 7.1% (BSP sees room for further rate cuts) http://fromthenews.net/jan-inflation-slows-to-10-mo-low-at-71-bsp-sees-room-for-further-rate-cuts.htm http://fromthenews.net/jan-inflation-slows-to-10-mo-low-at-71-bsp-sees-room-for-further-rate-cuts.htm#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:22:57 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5252 Reuters
Inquirer.net

MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) Annual inflation eased to a 10-month low of 7.1 percent in January on declining food and oil prices, the statistics office said Thursday.

Inflation in December was at 8.0 percent… Read the rest

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Inquirer.net

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Another Filipino working at the shipyard of the Korean-owned Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines Inc. in Subic, Zambales, died at the work site Friday after a heavy… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/another-hanjin-death.htm/feed 0 IMF’s Strauss-Kahn sees sharp cuts in growth forecasts http://fromthenews.net/imfs-strauss-kahn-sees-sharp-cuts-in-growth-forecasts.htm http://fromthenews.net/imfs-strauss-kahn-sees-sharp-cuts-in-growth-forecasts.htm#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:28:27 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5261 from ITUC-CSI

LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund will sharply cut growth forecasts this month and the world will not return to strong growth for two or three years, IMF Managing-Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Wednesday.

“Things… Read the rest

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Washington, 18 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine):  Commitments to strengthen social programmes for workers hit by the economic crisis and to increase action on core labour standards were made by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/zoellick-and-strauss-kahn-react-to-unions-demands-on-growing-global-employment-crisis.htm/feed 0 Stay healthy while using your PC http://fromthenews.net/stay-healthy-while-using-your-pc.htm http://fromthenews.net/stay-healthy-while-using-your-pc.htm#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:02:41 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5244 Dennis O’Reilly
CNET News.com

After years of writing about PCs, I’ve concluded that computer users care about only three things (in no particular order): speed, security, and reliability. But the fastest, safest, sturdiest PC in the world won’t do… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/stay-healthy-while-using-your-pc.htm/feed 0 BPO growth in 2009 similar to 2008 http://fromthenews.net/bpo-growth-in-2009-similar-to-2008.htm http://fromthenews.net/bpo-growth-in-2009-similar-to-2008.htm#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:38:26 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5239 Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Amid a looming economic slowdown in the Philippines for 2009, the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is expected to remain strong. However, growth will be as big as 2008, an official of the… Read the rest

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

On Dec. 10, in observance of the 60th year of the of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the group Karapatan, at a news briefing in a Quezon City restaurant, presented a… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/karapatan.htm/feed 0 Winners, Lossers in Financial Crisis http://fromthenews.net/winners-lossers-in-financial-crisis.htm http://fromthenews.net/winners-lossers-in-financial-crisis.htm#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:25:34 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5226 Cris Evert Lato
Cebu Daily News

CEBU CITY, Philippines – About 30 percent of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are working in the United States, according to research group Ibon Foundation.

At least 52 percent of OFW remittances… Read the rest

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