Town mayors back RH bill

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Mayors belonging to the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) backed yesterday the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, saying they wanted their constituents to have an informed choice.

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A less sadistic statistic from the IMF – but they’re still wrong on substance

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

Yesterday’s blog entry was entitled: ‘The so-called bail-out: The EU and Ireland in a sado-masochistic relationship’. In fact the support being provided is a mixture of EU, national government and IMF support, and I used ‘EU’ as a short-cut.

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The so-called bail-out: Europe and Ireland in a sado-masochistic relationship

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

After weeks of speculation and debate the deed has now been done. Ireland has received an overdraft facility of just under €70 bn provided jointly by the EU and the IMF in exchange for a tough austerity package.

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UNDP: People with HIV suffer stigma, discrimination in Philippines

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

Manila – People with HIV/AIDS suffer from stigmatization and discrimination in the Philippines, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official said Tuesday.

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Secrets of the Communist Party

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

DR. MARIO Miclat’s “Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions: A Novel” (Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2010) reveals in rich detail many of the covert factors that contributed to the growth of one of our country’s biggest problems: the Communist Party of the Philippines.

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Global economy unlikely to soar next year—UN

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

NEW YORK, United States—A United Nations report unveiled Wednesday paints a gloomy picture of the performance of the global economy next year, with growth projected to be a meager 3.1 per cent, followed by 3.5 per cent in 2012—rates that are insufficient to spur the recovery of the jobs that were lost during the economic…

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Education blues

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

The adage that Filipino families put top priority on education — after basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter — is often held up as an example of traditional values that we can be proud of as a people and that holds us in good stead in our endeavors, nay struggles, to achieve a…

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Stop the Mine!

Published by rudy Date posted on December 2, 2010

Civil society around the world has been galvanized by the Québec Government’s plans to underwrite a new chrysotile mine in the Canadian town of Asbestos. Outrage has been expressed by asbestos victims’ groups, trade unionists, politicans, academics and concerned citizens. Opposition to the new mine has been aired in newspaper articles, the academic and trade…

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Eurozone debt crisis deepens

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

PARIS, France—The financial cloud hanging over the eurozone darkened Tuesday, with the euro falling and Italy hit by rising borrowing rates as EU measures to control sovereign debt left investors uncertain and anxious.

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Education for all

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Education for all. That is EFA, and with its success, the Education Department is hoping that by 2015 it would entrench the department’s crowning enterprise: The Alternative Learning System (ALS).

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CBCP exec questions results of survey on RH bill

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines—An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines cast doubt Wednesday on the Pulse Asia survey showing that nearly seven out of 10 Filipinos support the Reproductive Health Bill pending before Congress.

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Let CCT work

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

A consensus has emerged among economists that the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of President Benigno Aquino III should be given a chance to work, just as it did during the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In Bicol, for example, several local governments have already received their CCT through the Department of Social Welfare and Development,…

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Metro Manila is ‘7-11 of disasters’

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines—Metro Manila is the “7-11 of disasters.” The National Capital Region topped cities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) “most at risk” of flooding and earthquake, according to the latest ASEAN risk assessment synthesis report.

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An ‘initiation’ work program

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The commitment to enter into the Performance Governance System (PGS) pathway for good governance, coming from the very top, necessarily is broad-brush. At such a high level, the decision can only be generic, remaining at a mainly abstract level. That decision – with the commitment behind it – needs to be brought…

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Gov’t framework spells out Mindanao’s development goals

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

A FRAMEWORK designed to guide development plans for Mindanao for the next 10 years was presented yesterday to President Benigno S. C. Aquino III in Malacañan Palace.

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Tuition at SUCs to rise more than 300% in 2011?

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – A state university professor fears that tuition increases may hit more than 300% next year at the campuses of the University of the Philippines and 112 other state universities and colleges (SUCs) nationwide to augment  budget cuts amounting to billions of pesos for 2011.

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Business group cites urgency of building more power plants

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

THE COUNTRY’S biggest business group yesterday warned that power supply will have to be increased if the economy is to sustain growth.

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Philippines to overtake India as world’s call center capital

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – The Philippines would soon overtake India as the call center capital of the world, a recent study by Everest Research Institute showed.

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Bailout turmoil weighing on growth, warns EU

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

The European Union warned Monday that the turmoil over eurozone debt is now a threat to growth, which will slow next year, as markets gave a cool response to a weekend rescue for Ireland.

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91-day Treasury bill drops to record low

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The yields of the short-dated Treasury bills (T-bills) fell across the board to new record lows yesterday as investors swarmed the last auction of government debt papers by the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) for this year.

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Anti-RH: Our people are our greatest asset!

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

After the Reproductive Health (RH) bill advocates, including their media friends virtually mangled the statement of his holiness Pope Benedict XVI, now the Pope has called upon all politicians and the media to show more respect for human life at its earliest stages, pointing out clearly that embryos aren’t just biological material, they are human…

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Correcting twisted historical tales

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

History, they say, is 50 percent fact and 50 percent interpretation. In her book Heroes and Villains, launching tomorrow, Carmen “Maam Chitang” Guerrero Nakpil recollects the facts in order to correct twisted versions of our past. For one, she stresses, the Spaniards through Miguel Lopez de Legazpi didn’t bring civilization to the Philippines. Corollary to…

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Are you cursed to be poor?

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

Are you cursed to be poor for the rest of your life? I was. Did you put a curse of poverty on yourself? Believe it or not, almost all of us did. Can you recognize the not so obvious signs of poverty and the curse in your life and others?

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Phl to have fifth blueprint of anti-AIDS campaign

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The country will have the fifth blueprint of its anti-HIV/AIDS campaign in the wake of the changing landscape of the epidemic, an official of the multi-sector Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) said yesterday.

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Drilon in hot seat over CCT defense

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

The proposed P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Aquino administration in the 2011 national appropriations bill is wanted slashed by some senators who remain doubtful about the so-called absorptive capacity of the implementing agency, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

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Phl’s public education system regressive – WB study

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – A World Bank (WB) study on the Philippines showed that the entire public education system had not progressed at all, and has in fact “regressed” from what should have been an ideal situation, Malacañang disclosed yesterday.

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Enrile questions choice of ‘poor’ areas for CCT

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

SENATE President Juan Ponce Enrile questioned Tuesday the choice of several towns and barangays as beneficiaries of the P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to be undertaken by the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

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Asian women with HIV face discrimination

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

Women infected with the HIV face discrimination and inadequate legal protection particularly in the Asian region, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said on Tuesday after a series of consultations on the Millennium Development Goals. “A brief paper emanating from meetings with select groups of HIV-positive women in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and India…

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Government satisfaction rating at 73%

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

MANILA, Philippines – Public satisfaction with the government hit a record high during the first three months of the Aquino administration, according to the latest survey conducted by pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS).

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Big majority of Filipinos back RH bill

Published by rudy Date posted on December 1, 2010

Majority of Filipinos stand behind the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill pending before Congress, a recent Pulse Asia survey revealed on Tuesday.

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July 2025

Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”

Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.

Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar.  Reject Military!

#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideosturesVideos

Time to support & empower survivors. Time to spark a global conversation. Time for #GenerationEquality to #orangetheworld!

July


3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 Ju
ly – International Plastic Bag Free Day
 
5 July –
World Youth Skills Day 
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day 
17 July – World Day for
International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons 


Monthly Observances:

Schools Safety Month

Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month

Weekly Observances:

Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week

 

Daily Observances:

First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines

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