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THE anger and frustration among Filipinos over China’s blatant military incursions in Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea have been flooding the pages of Facebook for more than a month.
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THE anger and frustration among Filipinos over China’s blatant military incursions in Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea have been flooding the pages of Facebook for more than a month.
MORE than a month since Supertyphoon Rolly, the world’s most powerful storm in 2020, hit the Bicol region, thousands of children and their families still live in makeshift homes, facing hunger and missing out on education as their learning modules were washed out by floodwater.
AT 15, Mark has experienced seven evictions of their home, slept on the pavement while getting soaked in the rain with his parents and three siblings, the youngest being just three years old.
AT the height of the enhanced community quarantine, a group of farmers from Tarlac were worried where to sell corn harvest that they cultivated for four or five months.
By Estrella Torres* | Special to the BusinessMirror
ON November 20, the world celebrates the 30th year of ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the treaty described by former South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela as “the luminous living document that enshrines the rights of every child without exception to a life of dignity and self-fulfillment.”
HOME is where a child must feel safe and loved by parents and carers.
AS companies gain from digital technologies, the world of work grapples with the challenge of fitting young people with the right skill sets and overall makeup suited to emerging jobs under the Industrial Revolution (IR) 4.0; and upskilling the employed so machines will not replace them.
DISASTERS leave children facing risks of injury, even death, and diseases due to the breakdown of services such as clean water and sanitation.
DEATH and destruction are the picture of the world at war. But the suffering of children who are starved to death, bombed and raped remains invisible.
YOUNG workers aged 15 to 24 dominate sectors of manufacturing, construction and services—the key drivers of the country’s 6.2 percent economic growth in 2018.
THE Philippines has 95 children dying every day due to malnutrition, a hard fact to contend with as the nation readies for Christmas when tables are filled with sumptuous dishes.
SINGAPORE—The last two decades have been challenging to the global markets but 10 economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) remain steadfast amid Western criticism of the regional bloc’s noninterference policy.
HAYDEE CARO, 43, left her 11-year-old son to a relative in 2016 to earn a living as a domestic worker in Buraydah province in Saudi Arabia.
Story and photos by Estrella Torres / Special to the Businessmirror
Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad has admitted that the government has released only P93.87 billion of the required funding worth P150 billion for the rehabilitation of Supertyphoon Yolanda-devastated areas.
THE Department of Health on Tuesday gathered more than 200 health workers at the Citystate Tower Hotel in Manila for the launch of a program to eradicate malnutrition particularly in areas hit by either conflict or natural disasters.
AN official of the US government cited the Philippines’s transparency programs as crucial in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—a new set of global goals to end poverty and inequality over the next 15 years—saying that Manila’s good-governance approach tackles poverty and inequality.
BUDGET Secretary Florencio B. Abad said the Philippines has presented new commitments from 2015 to 2017 for achieving transparency and good governance before 160 member-states of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) at the conclusion of a meeting in Mexico City.
Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad has announced the release of P124.77 million for the rehabilitation of infrastructures destroyed during the Zamboanga siege launched by a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Monday said local government units (LGUs) will soon institutionalize their role in providing jobs and livelihood that is not based on political affiliation or patronage but through skills available in their communities.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said spending for poverty alleviation and equipment upgrade to boost maritime security in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) islands has reached P32.8 billion, which comprise the biggest spending by class in August this year.
WITH more than P200 billion in unspent budget, Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad on Monday urged government agencies and departments to boost spending in the next four months of fiscal year 2015.
Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad said the administration needs to set aside P132 billion from the 2016 national budget to fund programs that seek to boost the resilience of vulnerable communities amid threats of the impact of climate change.
BUDGET Secretary Florencio B. Abad said the administration is seeking a P1-billion increase of the local funding for Mindanao in light of the proposed implementation of peace and development programs under the Bangsamoro basic law (BBL).
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is seeking more than P20.5-billion allocation in the 2016 proposed national budget to ease the worsening traffic in Edsa and other parts of Metro Manila.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Tuesday said that government spending on social protection, such as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and calamity funds, hit record increase of 70 percent to P36.6 billion in July this year compared to spending on the same period in 2014.
FORMER Ambassador Antonio Cabangon Chua, president emeritus of the ALC Group of Companies, made a surprise visit at the blessing of Santa Rosa de Lima Plaza at the Eternal Gardens in Santa Rosa, Laguna, as an expression of gratitude to the saint for his recovery from a recent ailment.
BUDGET Secretary Florencio B. Abad said that the government’s interest payments for the second quarter this year contracted by 2 percent year-on-year to P55.5 billion that allowed more spending for infrastructure projects to sustain economic growth.
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