Archive for May, 2006

TWENTY-seven-year-old Raoul Bermejo III recently obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of the Philippines. He is currently taking up review classes for the medical board examinations this August. Like many idealist young adults, he...

ON the eve of the formal turnover and oathtaking of Antonio Kalaw Jr. as the new president of the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP), a top-ranking academy official has tendered her resignation in protest of the selection process even as...

CORRUPTION in the country is said to have reached “serious levels.” Recently, a Hong Kong-based consultancy group named the Philippines as the second most corrupt country in Asia; the government's own Ombudsman reported that massive corruption has...

CIVIL-society groups have lauded last week's announcement by the Senate of a P31-billion cut in the Malacañang-proposed P1.053-trillion national budget for 2006 in favor of additional allocations to basic social services, calling such efforts by the...

THE San Francisco Chronicle has recently launched Pinoy Pod, a podcast channel for Filipinos in the Bay Area. Heralding the first ever podcasting venture of a major American newspaper, the Chronicle calls Pinoy Pod "a bold experiment" and promises to...

AT the launch of the Ayos na Gamot sa Abot-kayang Presyo (AGAP) coalition early last week, Sec. Roberto Pagdanganan presented interesting facts about the state of the nation's health vis-a-vis the growth of the Philippine pharmaceutical market. As...

SAYING the Internet is "a new frontier in the struggle for human rights," Amnesty International (AI) has initiated a campaign against governments that attempt to repress online freedoms, as well as corporations that aid them in doing so. "The web is a...