Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Saudi Arabian government yesterday urged Philippine medical clinics undertaking medical exams for overseas Filipino workers bound for the Middle East to undertake stricter measures in examining OFWs suspected of having the HIV/AIDS disease.

Here’s the skinny on a rather touchy subject: The ugly truth is that there are harmful chemicals hidden in beauty products, which a lot of us may not be aware of. While the incurable romantics swear that beauty is not skin-deep, our skin is our largest, thinnest organ. According to health activist Dr. Joseph Mercola,…

The 20s is a good time to start going on those regular medical checkups. MANILA, Philippines – Don’t be tempted to let your annual work-up or medical tests slip. Studies have shown that regular checkups and screenings can help you stay out of the doctor’s office for the rest of the year. Makati Medical Center…

Q. My doctor has told me everything that I’m NOT allowed to eat. But he didn’t tell me what food I can eat. Please tell me what I am allowed to eat. — Jon of Makati

More than 60 years ago, experts found that giving estrogen to women going through menopause could relieve some of the changes associated with this change of life — including hot flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness. Later on, replenishing estrogen levels was thought to provide a range of other benefits for women once they no…

MANILA, Philippines – When she finally saw her father after five years since she left home to work for businessman Mariano Tanenglian as a maid, Mary Jane Sollano said her skin was so fair and her eyes were irritated by the sunlight.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Manny Villar Jr. topped the two-stage sampling conducted by the Issues and Advocacy Center (The Center) from Aug. 18-23, 2009 among some 1,200 respondents nationwide from the different social classes and whose number were pro-rated based on the percentages relative to the number of voters in the last 2007 elections.

People in the provinces today are less poor than they were a couple of decades ago, thanks to the redistribution of incomes brought about mostly by the dispersal of economic activity, specifically of SMEs, but this is not to say that everyone is now well off in the rural areas. It would be safe to…

Instead of begging for more US development aid, the Philippine government should push for lower money transfer charges, which would essentially allow more remittances from migrant Filipino workers to flow into the Philippine economy.

GOVERNMENT officials who are eyeing elective posts have already spent at least P117 million in taxpayers’ money on their so-called infomercials, according to the Commission on Audit (COA), and that is not even the grand total because not all the disbursements and contracts for these infomercials have been submitted to the COA auditors.

BAGUIO CITY: President Gloria Arroyo this week ordered the Department of Energy and the National Electrification Administration (NEA) to complete electrification of the remaining 743 rural barangay nationwide before the yearend.

SPACE occupied by retailers in Metro Maila shopping malls grew on the strength of non-traditional tenants, according to a property research firm.

The Philippines and Taiwan have extended the existing memorandum of understanding on the Special Hiring Program for Taiwan (SHPT), the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said.

The government has provided jobs for more than 300,000 unemployed Filipinos from January to August of this year under the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP), the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) reported Monday.