This is a re-posted opinion piece. WHO ARE the poor? Where are they? Ofelia walks every day with her children to the forest to gather hearts of banan
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Sen. Franklin Drilon yesterday vowed to defend the retention of the entire P39.4-billion allocation for the Department of Soci
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. I use the phrase family planning because it is a phrase that covers a broad spectrum of ways of limiting the numb
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Here in Asia’s “oldest” democracy, traditional power blocs steadfastly oppose one another, often with breathtaking
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Yesterday Senators Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Pia Cayetano returned to lecture at their intellectual home, Malco
Read MoreGov’t sets budget for consultancy services set at P5M THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE Partnership Center has issued the invitation to bid for the second phase o
Read MoreHONG KONG, CHINA – Developing Asia’s demographic landscape will change dramatically in coming decades and policymakers will need to manage the proce
Read MoreFor something that concerns what couples do in the privacy of their bedrooms, it drew some over-the-top historical parallels. The Senate debate on
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Last week I started to analyze the claims of success—Ganito Tayo Noon, Bakit Nagkaganito Ngayon (This was how we w
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. WELL, TO be precise, 99,900,177, according to one forecast. That makes our country the 12th most populous nation o
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. HONG KONG — In principle the mostly Christian Philippines is a secular republic like its mostly Muslim and similar
Read MoreLOCAL think tank Ibon Foundation Inc. estimates that it would cost taxpayers P250 billion in the next 10 years if the government implements its new&
Read MoreWhenever students ask him if family planning is really essential in curbing population growth, Dr. Nibhon Debavalya, Thailand’s leading population e
Read MoreThis is re-posted opinion piece. The Seattle Times newspaper carried a story the other day on President Noynoy Aquino making the proposed reproductiv
Read MoreThis is an article repost. There are no impediments to the Senate’s passage of a reproductive health (RH) bill because the Constitution does not ban
Read MoreThis is an article repost. President Benigno Aquino III wants the leaders of Congress to quickly pass 13 measures, including the one concerning repro
Read MoreREMARKS BY AMBASSADOR HARRY K. THOMAS, JR. AT THE ASIA SOCIETY, WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 2011 Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. It is
Read MoreThis is an article repost. In last Monday’s SWS media release, the most pervasive finding is that 82 percent of Filipino adults nationwide agree that
Read MoreThis is an article repost. A MAJORITY of Filipinos view family planning as a personal choice that should not be interfered with, the Social Weather S
Read MoreThis is an article repost. THE GOVERNMENT has allocated P8 billion from the P1.816-trillion national budget proposed for next year to support public-
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