With these figures, PopCom said the Philippine Statistics Authority has projected that by July 2020, there would be 108.7 million Filipinos – 1.
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Read MoreThis 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 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 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
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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 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 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 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
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