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…
April 11, 2011 / No Comment / Read MoreThe 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…
April 9, 2011 / No Comment / Read MoreNo 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…
April 3, 2011 / No Comment / Read MoreA torture video was uploaded in a popular video-sharing site showing some Philippine military men beating young and new trainees. The torture video was, accordingly, submitted by the beaten…
April 1, 2011 / No Comment / Read MoreIn 2004 a Metro Manila Earthquake Impact Reduction Study was commissioned on the probable scenarios of earthquake impact in Metro Manila. It disclosed that a big inland earthquake of…
March 24, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read MoreThe 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…
March 16, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read MoreIn one of our trip to Legaspi city this week, we chanced upon a government building where sacks full of rotten NFA rice were filed up near its entrance. …
March 8, 2011 / No Comment / Read MoreThe revised PH methodology pegs the official poverty threshold, or the amount supposedly necessary for a tolerable standard of living, at just PhP46 per person per day in 2009. This…
February 15, 2011 / No Comment / Read More