The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM), on Monday asked Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli Remolona on why he raises high alarm on the inflationary impact of the recently approved P85 increase in daily minimum wage in the National Capital Region (NCR).
Eli Remolona Photo from Business World
The group said because workers have no grasp of macro-economics, it wants the BSP governor to educate the public on why money in the hands of rich people is not inflationary while (…)

The power rate hike has already eaten one day of the ₱60 wage hike that is yet to be received by minimum wage earners in NCR [National Capital Region].
The power rate hike has already eaten one day of the ₱60 wage hike that is yet to be received by minimum wage earners in NCR.
According to Partido Manggagawa (PM), at least ₱74.8 million, from the 1.1 million minimum wage earners in NCR who should receive a ₱60 wage hike this July, will only go to power plant owners because of the (…)

Les Pallopteridae forment une famille de diptères de petites tailles dont l'envergure est comprise entre 3 et 6 mm. Cette famille compte seulement une dizaine d'espèces en France.
Les adultes se caractérisent par un pédicelle antennaire qui est clairement encoché.
Les larves, selon les espèces, se nourrissent du tissu de plantes ou d'oeufs, de larves ou de nymphes xylophages disposées sous l'écorce d'arbres abattus.
Toxoneura muliebris (Harris, 1780), ou Toxonevra muliebris, la (…)

Anand Teltumbde soutient que la démission du ministre indien de l'Éducation de l'Union, Dharmendra Pradhan, en juillet 2026, provoquée par le mouvement de protestation des « Cafards » contre la fraude aux examens, doit son succès en partie au fait que ce mouvement fut délibérément, stratégiquement grossier. Teltumbde interprète la vulgarité du mouvement — des couches envoyées par la poste au bureau d'un ministre, des slogans qu'aucun journal n'aurait pu imprimer — non comme un relâchement du (…)

Anand Teltumbde argues that the resignation of India's Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in July 2026, forced by the “Cockroach” protest movement against examination fraud, succeeded in part because the movement was deliberately, strategically rude. Teltumbde reads the movement's profanity — mock diapers mailed to a minister's office, slogans no newspaper could print — not as a lapse from political seriousness but as its central weapon. Drawing on James C. Scott's distinction (…)