AS an easy reference to aid in the discussions on the constitutional amendments being proposed by the Consultative Commission on charter change (Con-Com), we have prepared a matrix comparing the 1987 Constitution and the Con-Com's proposal to show what...

A RECENT Social Weather Stations' (SWS) survey has placed the proportion of Filipino households that experienced hunger at least a day in the past three months at an all-time high of 16.7 percent. Up from the previous peak of 16.1 percent in March 2001,...

MORE than half or 54 percent of Filipinos favor a constitutional amendment that would require President Arroyo to quit before her term ends in 2010, the Social Weather Stations said today. The SWS, which polled 1,200 adult Filipinos from Nov. 28 to...

INQUIRER columnist Conrado de Quiros devoted his column last  December 28 to a letter sent to him by Mei Magsino-Lubis, the paper's correspondent for Southern Luzon based in Batangas. In her letter, Magsino-Lubis wrote about how she has been in...

THIS past Christmas season no doubt saw a deluge of Philippine-bound balikbayan boxes, huge packages that overseas Filipinos send home. They can contain anything and everything — canned food, clothes, toiletries, and of course, chocolates....

THE Philippines was second only to Iraq as the most dangerous place for journalists in 2005, two international media watchdogs, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), said today. ...

EIGHTY-FIVE percent of Filipinos say neither they nor immediate members of their family were a victim of crime from April to September of 2005, according to Pulse Asia’s latest survey on crime victimization. A similar survey conducted by Pulse Asia...