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.
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.
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.
Manila – People with HIV/AIDS suffer from stigmatization and discrimination in the Philippines, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official said Tuesday.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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).
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.
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,…
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.
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…
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.
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.
THE COUNTRY’S biggest business group yesterday warned that power supply will have to be increased if the economy is to sustain growth.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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?
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.
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).
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.
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.
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…
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).
Majority of Filipinos stand behind the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill pending before Congress, a recent Pulse Asia survey revealed on Tuesday.