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.

MANILA, Philippines – Seven in 10 Filipinos, mostly residents of Metro Manila, favor the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, the recent Ulat ng Bayan Survey conducted by Pulse Asia showed.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Health (DOH) has assured potential blood recipients that blood banks are clean and safe from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The Students and Campuses section takes a look back at the condom and its colorful confrontations with religion and society throughout the centuries. MANILA, Philippines — For such a tiny thing, the condom certainly has got centuries of controversy behind it.

BANGKOK — Intra-regional trade among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states should increase from 25 percent at present to 40 percent of its total trading value in order to ensure sustainable growth, ASEAN secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan said Tuesday.

I DON’T do Facebook. I will not be your “friend,” and I will certainly not sign up for a Facebook account simply “to connect” with anyone. Nor will I put the little “f” logo and a link back to Facebook anywhere on my blog.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines, along with India and Indonesia, offer the biggest opportunities for the fledgling microinsurance industry, which has a potential market of three billion people, a Reuters report said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Senate has approved on second reading a bill granting household helpers or “kasambahay” a higher monthly minimum wage and additional benefits, and ensuring their rights.

Manila (30 November) — To revitalize and strengthen the Makati-Pasay Tripartite Industrial Peace Council, the mayors of both cities recently inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Sampiro Hall of the Makati City Hall.

Move targets HIV-hit overseas workers. Manila: The government has expanded its health insurance scheme to cover Aids following reports that the number of overseas Filipino workers with the disease has been increasing, a top official has told Gulf News.

MANILA, Philippines—As close to 200 countries began Monday a two-week meeting in Cancun, Mexico, to try to forge an agreement to curb climate change, several international agencies warned that the Philippines remained a disaster waiting to happen—with Metro Manila possibly going under water after just a heavy downpour.

COMPLACENCY will doom the planet, a ranking official of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned, as negotiators from over 190 nations gird for two weeks of talks in Cancun to come up with an agreement that will stop Earth from warming too much.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has issued new guidelines exempting women workers from the Labor Codes’ night work ban.

THE Finance and Trade departments will come up with a common position aimed at giving out the least possible tax incentives and other perks to investors.

PUBLIC utility bus operators in Metro Manila may soon face another hurdle on their operation, the moment the members of the Metro Manila Council, the policy making body of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), push through with its proposal to disallow operators from renewing the registration and franchise of 10-year-old and above bus units.

CEBU, Philippines – The Visayan Electric Company Employees’ Union-ALU reiterated its call for a dialogue with the management after they were able to get 177 signatures from members asking the management to agree to a dialogue to settle their current labor dispute.

ONE out of every four Filipinos infected with HIV is an overseas worker, Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) party-list reported Monday. TUCP secretary general and former Sen. Ernesto Herrera revealed that at least 1,501 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are infected with deadly disease, accounting for 26 percent of the 5,729 reported cases in…

The number of international migrants could soar by 68 percent to 405 million in 2050, the International Organization (IOM) said on Monday, noting that emerging economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America are becoming important destinations.

CEBU, Philippines – Mass media has long been recognized as an important source of information on HIV/AIDS.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance (DOF) reiterated the need to rationalize the country’s redundant incentives and at the same time repeal revenue-eroding measures, including perks given to the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) as well as operators of freeports and economic zones in Aurora and Bataan.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported that the country’s foreign portfolio investments or “hot money” hit a new record level of $3.44 billion as of the second week of November as capital flows continued to flood emerging market economies in the Asia Pacific Region, including the Philippines.

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino has appointed a former brigade commander and intelligence officer as head of the office tasked to look into the human rights complaints involving the military.

It’s quite natural for Reproductive Health bill advocates to welcome Pope Benedict XVI’s stance on the use of condoms for exceptional cases, such as when a male prostitute has to use the prophylactic to avoid infecting other persons. In fact, although it would be like reaching for the moon, they would like a more radical…

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” was how William Shakespeare described it and that applies to the recent ranting about the so-called budget cuts in state universities and colleges (SUCs).

Vice President and presidential adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers’ (OFWs) Concerns Jejomar Binay urged the joint congressional oversight committee to suspend the implementation of the law requiring insurance coverage for agency-hired migrant workers.