Monthly Archives: November 2010

CEBU, Philippines – Being a place that is friendly to people with disabilities can boost tourism.

MANILA, Philippines—Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Saturday said government money would be better allocated for a few “centers of excellence” such as the University of the Philippines and the Mindanao State University rather than some state universities and colleges that “are not viable.”

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) said its planned spin-off affecting more than 2,600 workers is a survival strategy meant to save the jobs of more than 4,000 employees who will be left behind to run the restructured airline.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang yesterday told students of state universities and colleges protesting budget cuts that the government will focus first on basic education and that SUCs have sufficient funds.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday insisted on its P880-million budget for the government’s family planning program and purchase of contraceptives next year.

THE students and faculty of the University of the Philippines walked out of their classes Thursday to protest more than P1 billion in cuts on the budget of 112 state universities and colleges.

HOUSE Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Thursday said that a survey, even if one conducted by the Catholic Church, would reveal that majority of Filipinos will favor the passage of reproductive health (RH) bills while a well-known prelate accused proponents of the measures of lying for claiming that the bills do not allow abortion.

MECHAI Viravaidya, the family planning pioneer of Thailand and former Cabinet member and senator known as “Mr. Condom,” once explained why he focused on condom use when he first began to propagate the “gospel” of family planning in his country.

Subject: reporting of text scam Message: may narecive po akong txt n gnito ang sabi. Akala kopo ay totoo sapagkat nasa abroad ang asawa ko. nais ko pong ireport ito sa inyo upang matigi n ang kanilan panloloko. Message: From O9391932647 “E2 bago roaming # ko. Magpapadala ako ng pera. Paloadan nyo muna ako ng…

THE UNITED NATIONS says Asia needs to spend more in disaster risk reduction measures to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of cutting poverty and improving access to health and education by 2015.

GENEVA—The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, a UN think-tank warned Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines — Community campaign Depensa! called on the government Thursday to prioritize the protection of Filipinos against climate change.

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Friday expressed his opposition to the government’s move to allocate P880 million for family planning, specifically for the purchase of articificial contraceptives.

MANILA, Philippines – Merchandise imports in September climbed 24.6% to $4.57 billion from a year earlier, marking the strongest growth in 4 months, the National Statistics Office said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Department of Health studies show that 92% of all Filipinos infected with HIV in 2010 are males. Around 80% of these people are found to be MSMs, or males having sex with males.

As the Asian Institute of Management prepares to hold the 10th Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility the questions around CSR have ceased to be around “whether” and have become about “how.”

Vehicle importers want a “level playing field” vis-à-vis domestic assemblers that have already availed of many perks and government assistance, the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors (AVID) said on Thursday. In a press conference, Maria Fe Perez-Agudo, AVID president, said the Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Development Program (CMVDP) or Executive Order (EO) 877-A is a…

INCREASING the resilience of Asian countries to disasters and climate change thru “enabling policy environment for effective disaster risk reduction” is important for the nations to be able to achieve sustainable socio-economic development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sen. Loren Legarda said Thursday.

At least 33 undocumented Filipino workers were apprehended in a series of intensified crackdown by Saudi authorities on illegal migrants in the Middle East state despite the issuance of amnesty for overstaying aliens.

The Philippine economy expanded at a slower pace in the third quarter mainly because of the weak agriculture sector and lower government spending, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) announced on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) vowed to prioritize resolving the various problems of the teaching and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd).

MANILA, Philippines – Students and faculty members from state colleges and universities in Metro Manila staged simultaneous rallies and walkouts yesterday to protest a government proposal to reduce the P24-billion budget of the country’s 110 SUCs in 2011 by P1.1 billion.

More than 1.6 million actions have been registered with the Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women initiative of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, a milestone registration that coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov. 25.

Home to approximately 600 million people, Southeast Asia is no idyllic sanctuary for women but rather, for many of them, a dangerous place to live.

Once more Congress is deliberating on the RH Bill. In the Lower House it is entitled “Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2010” (HB 96) while in the Senate it is SB 2378 entitled an “Act Providing for a National Policy for Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development”.

MANILA, Philippines—House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Thursday welcomed a proposal for the Church to commission its own survey to ascertain the “pulse of the poor” on the reproductive health bill, but predicted it would produce the same results.

MANILA, Philippines — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday welcomed the pope’s statement on the use of condoms as an acceptable way to halt the spread of AIDS.

MANILA — The Philippines on Thursday reported a sharp jump in HIV-AIDS cases which runs against a global trend of declining infection rates, with young homosexual men most at risk.

MANILA, Philippines — Are students in state universities and colleges (SUCs) misinformed when they staged walkouts and sit-ins against the supposed cut in budgets for their schools in the 2011 national budget?