Last week, Bloomberg had what could have been a feel good story that talked about how the Build Build Build program would be able to allow the repatriation back to the country of overseas Filipino workers. But that's because the program is, even now, running into a serious skilled labor shortage.
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Guess who are the significant “some ones” celebrating their 95th year this year? For accountants in the Philippines, the celebrants are the accountancy profession and the Board of Accountancy (BOA). In 1923 accounting was legally recognized as a profession in the country when the sixth Philippines
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Iranian lawmakers rejected the outline of a budget proposed by President Hassan Rouhani, which was to include another round of unpopular subsidy cuts for the next fiscal year. The budget framework was defeated Sunday by a vote of 120 to 83, with nine abstentions, state-run Mehr news agency
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The so-called “common-sense coalition” of senators that helped end the federal government shutdown will meet this week to consider President Donald Trump's immigration proposal and make recommendations, Senator Susan Collins said. Collins of Maine, a moderate Republican who emerged as a
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