Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines (AHN) – Car sales in the Philippines went up 29 percent in the first 11 months of 2010. According to the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, 153,163 units were sold from January to November. For the same period last year, only 118,848 vehicles were [...]

AHN News Staff Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines (AHN) – The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment has unofficially lifted the ban on night work for women by issuing Advisory No. 4. The advisory said female employees may be allowed night employment if they are over 18 years old. The country’s labor code bans night work [...]

AHN News Staff Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines (AHN) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is back in the country from his first official visit to the United States. He brought with him 43,650 new jobs to be generated in the next three years through $2.4 billion investments Aquino secured. Aquino, who arrived in Manila [...]

Jeehan Fernandez – AHN News Writer New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The U.S. government has granted $434 million to the Philippines for investments in roads, community development projects and improvements in the country’s tax collection efforts under a five-year economic compact that aims to fight poverty. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton [...]

Angeles City, a hidden entertainment paradise, is located in the Philippines! It is a 2-hour drive from Manila, the capital of the Philippines and located next to what used to be the U.S. Clark Air Force Base. The strip of go-go bars that run along Angeles Citys popular tourist area, “Fields Avenue” and expatriate hangout Perimeter Road, have evolved into glitzy, world-class establishments.