POPULATION   Reproductive health must be viewed and not separated from the overall context of people’s health. As the economy worsens, the state of the public health system also deteriorates.

TOURISM   By Jennifer Guste  |  The reclassification of lands for tourism means only one thing for rural families: the large-scale physical and economic displacement of farmers and fisherfolk communities.

ENVIRONMENT   By Ayi Muallam  |  This coming Holy Week, Mount Banahaw and Mount San Cristobal in Southern Tagalog will remain closed to pilgrims and trekkers “to allow the two mountains to “heal” themselves from decades of wanton environmental destruction.”

ARTS & CULTURE   By Ayi Muallam  |  President Arroyo signed into law on Thursday Republic Act 9521 or the National Book Development Trust Fund Act, which aims to provide Filipino authors reasonable amounts of money to help them complete their manuscripts for publication.

TRAVEL & LEISURE   The tour package costs only $999 includes roundtrip international airfare from San Francisco, Los Angeles or Las Vegas via Philippine Airlines, two-night hotel accommodation in any of the selected deluxe hotels, daily American breakfast and one-way transfer from the airport to hotel or vice versa.

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today urged the government to take aggressive steps for the recovery of Philippine cultural and art treasures that were carted away by foreigners during the colonial era.
Pimentel proposed that the National Commission for Culture and the Arts should be empowered and given additional funding to undertake efforts [...]

Almost two years ago, mercury in schools was a big headline. A mercury spill had occurred in a school in Parañaque, exposing dozens of students to mercury poisoning and creating a clean-up and decontamination effort that cost millions of pesos.
A different and more benign mercury incident is happening at the School of [...]

Business, tourism and migrant workers groups have hailed the forthcoming aviation talks between the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines as a major opportunity to expand and strengthen economic ties at amidst the global economic slowdown.
After a long hiatus of six years, the negotiating panels of the Philippines and the UAE are scheduled [...]

Many years ago, he was famous as Rustom Padilla. He was also married to an actress, Carmina Villaroel. In 2002 he left for the U.S. to study film. At the same time he reflected on his life and began to grow in understanding and conviction until one day he decides to come out and in his own words, “accept who I am.” This was Rustom Padilla then and Bebe Gandanghari today.

Civil society groups urged the Department of Health and Intellectual Property Office to commence the implementation of Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008, two months after the law’s Implementing Rules and Regulations are approved.
Consumer group Cut the Cost, Cut the Pain Network (3CPNet) called on the Department of Health to inform the [...]