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Are Unemployed Housewives Noynoying Too?

Are Unemployed Housewives Noynoying Too?

It triggers deep interest on this writer each time women present themselves in an ackward manner. Am referring to a situation when they occupy the front stools of small retail…

La Salud Family Farm School Thrives in Calabanga

La Salud Family Farm School Thrives in Calabanga

Five years after opening its gates to the first batch of students from the surrounding communities in barangay Sta. Salud of the municipality of Calabanga, the co-educational institution still thrives…

Bicol Charity Foundations Loses Financial Assistance From PCSO

Bicol Charity Foundations Loses Financial Assistance From PCSO

Seven charitable foundations and institutions in the Bicol region had been cut-off of their monthly and quarterly funding by the numbers gaming agency Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). Many more…

Small Town Lottery Out, PCSO Loterya ng Bayan In

Small Town Lottery Out, PCSO Loterya ng Bayan In

It seems there is no stopping the lottery numbers game in the country any time soon. For while the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) sealed the fate of small town…

Is PH’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program a Failure?

Is PH’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program a Failure?

The Social Weather Station survey from March 4 to 7, from sample respondents of 1,200, revealed that 20.5 percent of respondents or about 4.1 million families say they went hungry…

A Sweeping Look at Mining in the Philippines

A Sweeping Look at Mining in the Philippines

The prevailing Philippine mining laws grant the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sole authority to approve large-scale mining. Neither the provincial or local governments enjoy the…

Drug Mules Execution Highlights Crisis of PH Labor Export Policy

Drug Mules Execution Highlights Crisis of PH Labor Export Policy

No Filipino goes out of the country with a death wish. When the 122 others on death row and more than 7,000 in jails abroad left, they were full…

The Poor and Conditional Cash Transfer Program

The Poor and Conditional Cash Transfer Program

The open-walled Octagon building of Calabanga is a constant venue of people on the move. Poor and deprived residents of the town's different barangays pour in mass on a scheduled…

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