This is a re-posted op-ed piece. The population continues to grow rapidly and most schools are overcrowded. In the tertiary level, enrollment is high
Read MoreTHE PHILIPPINES remains behind schedule -- by a decade or longer in a number of indicators -- three years before the deadline to meet the so-called
Read MoreHUNGER IS AGAIN ON THE RISE, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a new report, with sharp increases in Luzon overwhelming declines in the rest
Read MoreThis is a re-posted op-ed piece. The government is correct in its efforts to stop human trafficking and the use of Filipinos as drug couriers. But th
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. The new SWS hunger report for the Third Quarter of 2011, first released in BusinessWorld last Thursday, was titled
Read MoreHeadline news: The Philippines welcomed one of the world’s symbolic “seven billionth” babies Monday, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at Man
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT should address bottlenecks that tend to drag the country’s achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations offic
Read MoreONE week from today, the United Nations estimates, the world’s population will reach seven billion. Because censuses are infrequent and incomplete,
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. The debate in Congress on the Responsible Parenthood (RH) bill is heating up in both houses, with the Catholic Chu
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. In his second year in office, President Noynoy Aquino has to make his economic programs work or his legacy will be
Read MoreRegional News GORAKHPUR, India — Pedestrians weave their way through a sea of cars, rickshaws and motorbikes, a desperate scramble for space just m
Read MoreRegional News The world's poorest countries have added seven years of life expectancy since 2000. THE NUMBERS: American rice imports from Cambodi
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Four of every 10 babies born in the country are illegitimate and one of them came from a teenage mother, the latest data from
Read MoreDebates on the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill have become increasingly heated in recent months. In a nutshell, anti-RH votes are impell
Read MoreRegional News The global outlook has become increasingly uncertain, and the recovery is more sluggish than we envisaged just a few months ago as th
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines–He flunked the test for aspiring seminarians and had to beg to be accepted at the San Jose Major Seminary in Ateneo. It was onl
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines—The highly controversial reproductive health bill will have to wait. The Senate put all pending bills, including the RH measure
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT’S review of its centerpiece public-private partnership (PPP) program could result in more changes to the list of projects initially p
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. You know a program is successful in this country when politicians are itching to dip their hands into it. Going b
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - A new sin tax measure would allow the government to add at least five million recipients or beneficiaries of state health insu
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