I was surprised why, at the ABS-CBN’s vice presidential debate, Senator Loren Legarda was being asked what was so important about climate change that she focused on it as her campaign thrust. Why not focus on the economy, on graft and corruption? It seems not too many people are aware of the consequences of environmental…

For people and institutions that believe condoms are evil and cannot stop the spread of HIV/AIDs, let them listen to what the World Health Organization says. The STAR issue of Tuesday (March 23, page 6) stated that condoms could prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other specially transmitted diseases. This report came on the heels…

This case is about the back-wages and separation pay of an illegally dismissed employee. The question raised here is from what date up to what date these monetary awards shall be computed. This is the case of Al.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine standing in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) watch list for tuberculosis improved from seventh place in 1997 to ninth place last year, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

MALACAÑANG on Tuesday ordered the Department of Energy to review the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA) in a bid to curb the looming power crisis in the country.

The government wants the grassroot community to get involved in drafting the national framework strategy that will help the country respond to adverse effects of climate change.

MALACAÑANG on Tuesday approved this year’s Investment Priorities Plan (IPP), which lists the businesses that would benefit from tax and other incentives.

A LAWMAKER warned on Tuesday     that the galloping Philippine population, now at 95 million, would reach the critical level of 115 million by 2015 and seriously threaten the country’s food security.

The following are the party-list groups that submitted their nominees to the Comelec as of March 23:

COLLEGES and universities can increase their tuition as much as they want but should get the nod of students and their parents first, according to the Commission on Higher Education (Ched).

MANILA, Philippines – The establishment of the Central Credit Information Corp. (CCIC) has remained in limbo more than two years after the passage of the Credit Information System Act (CISA) or Republic Act 9510.

MANILA, Philippines – The integration of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) and other allowances of government workers into their standardized salary rates is legal, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled.

MANILA, Philippines – Government offices and private establishments may soon have “lactation stations” where mothers can breastfeed their babies or store their breast milk in refrigerated containers.

TACLOBAN CITY – Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo yesterday reassured the public that a failure of elections on May 10 is “pure fantasy.”

MANILA – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will not support a bill seeking to cap credit card interest rates, one of its officials said.

A SENIOR British migration official has raised concern on the rising fraudulent visa applications from the Philippines, particularly on the abuse of student visas being used by unskilled workers seeking jobs in Britain.

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Filipinos, much like the Chinese, are probably among the most ubiquitous nationalities in world. They are scattered around the globe and are found practically every where, even in such unlikely places as Maputo in Africa, where a friend of mine, a Filipino lawyer, lives; Somalia and Afghanistan. Once, while I was in the washroom of…

The government will force protesting workers at the North Harbor to vacate the port, a top official of the Philippine Ports Authority said on Friday.

MANILA, Philippines–The government is pushing through with its ‘export replacement’ scheme where 90,000 tons of sugar exported last year would be imported by concerned traders to boost local stocks.

When I was a college student, I, like my fellow students, romanticized revolutions. We read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Nicolas Poulantzas’ Power and Social Classes. Che Guevara was our hero. Communism was Heaven on Earth, and bourgeois capitalism, with its profit orientation at the expense of the welfare of the workers, was…

UNITED NATIONS – More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in a message to mark World Water Day.

DO we really need two more years of basic education? The proposal to add two more years to the 10-year basic education curriculum is not new to the education agenda. It has been discussed and debated for some time and I first came across the proposal as a member of the Congressional Commission on Education…

KUALA LUMPUR – Six Filipino workers died at a water treatment plant in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah after they inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a tank, according to reports Tuesday.

The country will be leading the formulation of Southeast Asia’s new medium-term tourism strategic plan, the Department of Tourism said on Monday.

Newly appointed Education Secretary Mona Valisno has expressed support for Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral’s program that aims to include sex education in the basic curriculum to help curb the rising cases of sex-related diseases among the youth.

(Q&A) The path for labour markets to return to pre-crisis levels remains long and signs of recovery in the economy are yet to be translated into jobs, says a new study by the ILO. The paper also shows how job losses are unequally distributed across regions and economic sectors, and between developed and developing countries.…

When she was named as the new Health chief early this year, Esparanza Cabral was introduced to a shocking figure on HIV-AIDS infection in the Philippines.

CEBU, Philippines – The growing support of the youth sector along with the political machinery of Lakas-Kampi-Christian Muslim Democrats (CMD) is expected to further boost the ratings of presidential aspirant Gilbert Teodoro Jr., an independent research firm said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Alyansa Agrikultura, a farmer-fisherfolk coalition of 42 national and local federations and organizations representing all the major agriculture sector, has submitted a “wish-list” for an agri-fishery action agenda to all presidential candidates in the May elections.