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MANUFACTURING SUMMIT. Outgoing Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez delivers his speech during the 7th Manufacturing Summit at Makati Diamond Residences in Makati City on June 21, 2022. The DTI chief wants refinement in the government procurement law that will favor local manufacturers in certain procurement projects. (PNA photo by Kris Crismundo) MANILA - Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez is proposing to the next administration to tweak Republic Act 9184, or the Government Procurement Reform Act, to adopt some provisions that will favor local manufacturers in government bidd...

Following a recent directive to the Tinsukia district administration from the ASCPCR

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson were brilliant women who used their mathematical abilities to help send rockets (manned and unmanned) into space. Want to know more about them? Don’t watch the film, Hidden Figures. Though Hidden Figures is an entertaining movie, it does what most bio-pics (biographical movies) do: warps time and truth […]

File photo MANILA - Online recruitment platform JobStreet has observed a 27-percent increase in job postings in 2021, signaling recovery since the pandemic struck. JobStreet Country Manager Philip Gioca said Wednesday there were 75,000 job postings per day from January to September last year from 59,000 daily job postings in 2020. Gioca said job listings in the online platform are now at 75 percent of the pre-pandemic level. "You would see (that) with that increase is a signal that jobs are increasing, (the) market is reopening," he added. In 2021, top specializations hired by compan...

File photo MANILA - The government aims to bring down the unemployment rate close to pre-pandemic level of around 5 to 5.5 percent this year, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez said Tuesday. In a virtual presser of the Presidential Communications Operations Office-Office of the Global Media and Public Affairs, Lopez said the unemployment rate slowed down to 6.5 percent last November from a peak of 17.6 percent in April 2020. "Our goal in 2022 is to further increase our job generation efforts to close down (the) unemployment rate nearer to pre-pandemic levels,&quo...