MANILA — The number of unemployed Filipinos stood at 2.8 million in October amid better economic gains in the first nine months of the year. The preliminary results of the National Statistics Office’s (NSO) Labor Force Survey showed that the unemployment rate of 7.1 percent last October was unchanged from a year ago. Read rest [...]

MANILA — The Philippine government’s decision to drop charges against 43 health workers detained for months on suspicion of being insurgents will bolster planned talks to end the four-decade-long communist rebellion, rebels said Sunday. President Benigno Aquino III ordered prosecutors last Friday to drop charges against the “Morong 43,” named after the coastal town east [...]

MANILA — The European Union’s ban on Philippine-registered air carriers affected the country’s tourism target this year, a senior official said. While tourist arrivals from France grew by 12.7 percent from January to September this year, Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim said it would have been higher without the ban. Read rest of story

MANILA — President Benigno Aquino III dismissed the statements released by human rights groups that his administration is sitting idly on cases of extrajudicial killings in the country. In a press conference, the President countered leftist groups who said on Friday that human rights violations continue to escalate in the first five months of his [...]