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Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) can now invest their earnings in profitable endeavours while still working abroad, by enrolling their family members in a special training course that will educate them on technologies that they can use in business.

The Swiss Court of Appeals has reinstated the freeze order on the $16.5 million Swiss deposits of three Marcos cronies, giving the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) another chance to recover the funds believed stolen from the Filipino people.

A Filipino human rights lawyer hailed the ruling of the Fukuoka District Court Friday, which ordered Mitsui Mining Company to pay 165 million yen in damages to 15 Chinese men who were brought to Japan as slave labourers during World War II.

Milk samples from 12 nursing mothers in the former dump site in Payatas, suburban Quezon City contain dioxins, furans and polychlorinated biphenyls, according to a study by a Japanese group.

A World Bank official urged the government not to concentrate on producing 'globally competitive' graduates for jobs abroad but instead focus on the improvement of local industries.

Former first lady Imelda Marcos is again courting the government to enter into a compromise deal that would absolve her of all pending civil liabilities.

Philippine Education Secretary Raul Roco does not believe the 1,472 local Muslim schools are using curriculums patterned on extremist ideology.

Still reeling from last week's legal setback on its claim to the $660 million former deposits of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Swiss banks, the Presidential Commission on Good Government yesterday said it is mapping out legal strategies to win the 11-year-old case.

A human rights group has said that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's first year of administration has been marred by numerous human rights abuses, including further deprivation in the lives of 20 million Filipinos.

Seven Filipinos, who have admitted before a Singaporean court to stealing gold chains from a jewellery shop, have been sentenced to varying prison terms.

Amid a perennial shortage of classrooms, teachers and textbooks, classes in public and private schools nationwide start today with 19 million students trooping back to school.

Switzerland and the Philippines will sign a treaty to recover ill-gotten money of Ferdinand Marcos and his close associates in Swiss banks, officials said yesterday, even as Marcos' widow Imelda finally won the right to travel abroad.