The Reproductive Health (RH) bill got lashed with prayers as thousands members of a Catholic charismatic group flocked at Amvel City compound in Parañaque City last Saturday.

Here’s a trick question: Which of the following is a grave sin and which is the lesser of two evils—murder with torture or murder without pain? For liberals opposed to the Catholic Church prohibition on contraception, it seemed something could be evil, but not sinful. At least that was how they apparently—or wishfully—understood Pope Benedict…

President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s policy of making state universities and colleges (SUCs) self-sufficient is wrong since this would make them as expensive as private colleges and universities, Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – The growth prospects for the Philippines is expected to go on an upward trend with the gradual increase in demand for electronics and engineering products and services for a global market.

MANILA, Philippines – The need to review the policy on the grant of survivorship pension, limited ATMs and increased representation for retirees in the GSIS governing board.

If the Bangko Sentral won’t do it, then Congress might  shield consumers from abusive credit card companies.

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines — Pangasinan and Benguet are at the forefront of information campaigns in northern Luzon about AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) and how the (human immunodeficiency virus), the virus which causes it, is transmitted as six new cases were discovered this month in Baguio City.

THE Department of Health yesterday said the younger working population makes up the highest number of HVI cases in the Philippines.

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang yesterday assured Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III that the entire budget of the Department of Health (DOH) would not be allotted solely for the purchase of contraceptives, but only a portion of it.

MANILA, Philippines—The state-owned Government Service Insurance System is set to review its global investment program to decide whether it must bring back all the funds it invested offshore or place them in other emerging markets in Asia.

TRANSPORT officials and other stakeholders pushed the implementation of the radio frequency identification (Rfid) project of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in a public hearing conducted by the House of Representatives.

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Labor and Employment has issued guidelines detailing the exemption of women from a long-standing ban contained in the Labor Code prohibiting them from working at night.

Vice President Jejomar Binay has suspended for 60 days the implementation of the required certification of host countries for the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFW).

More than 25 percent of the recorded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive patients in the Philippines are overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said.

MANILA, Philippines—The selection of beneficiaries is one of the most contentious portions of cash transfer programs in various countries, according to Social Watch coordinator and Third World Institute executive director Roberto Bissio.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has partnered with various non-government organizations for the implementation of a supplemental feeding program that will benefit some 1.8 million children.

MANILA, Philippines –  The government urged state universities and colleges yesterday to raise and use their own funds on top of the subsidy being given them by the government.

MANILA, Philippines –  While supporting the need to limit the size of families, the Department of Health (DOH) will also help married couples with fertility problems have children.

MANILA, Philippines –  President Aquino has suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to South Korea while the government assesses the situation in the Korean Peninsula.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) – Leftist rebels destroyed a banana plantation in the southern Philippines Friday afternoon, local officials said.

A 24-YEAR-OLD man who just graduated from a six-month vocational course is the latest to contract the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Cebu.

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CEBU CITY — The Department of Energy (DoE) expects to energize about 2,650 more households in remote areas in the country using solar energy.

The employers in Algeria continue to express preference for Filipino workers as they intend to hire more of them.

While the government has not yet cautioned Filipinos against traveling to embattled South Korea, a deployment ban has been issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in connection with the ongoing unrest in the Korean Peninsula.

Growth in factory output moderated to a nine-month low in September, the government reported on Friday, results economists said were reflective of a slowdown in economic activity.

IT IS said that Asean [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] is composed of 10 precious and exquisite pearls that sparkle and stand on a class of their own. However, these pearls remain loose, and everyone agrees that the Asean region will be a more immense source of light and strength for the rest of the…

PUNDITS doubt whether the Aquino administration’s public-private partnership (PPP) imitative would improve the economy and people’s welfare.

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Police (PNP) cried foul over the branding of the Philippines as a “broken and lawless nation” by a Hong Kong-based human rights group, stressing that such assessment is exaggerated and baseless.

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