IT has taken a typhoon of Milenyo's fury to bring home the point that the huge billboards that have been mushrooming all over the metropolis indeed pose danger to people's lives and safety. Packing 110 to 140-kph gusty winds, Milenyo gave the...

FIFTEEN days. This is the time that the Supreme Court has given the anti Cha-Cha group led by Counsel for Defense of Liberties (CODAL) spokesperson lawyer Neri Colmenares to gather and present evidence of fraud in the people's initiative petition...

IN the last feature of our i Report series on health, we take a look at what has happened with Republic Act No. 6675 since it was passed in 1988. Hailed as a landmark piece of legislation almost two decades ago, R. A. 6675 -- more popularly known as the...

THE loss of billions of pesos due to dengue could be halved by simply confirming an initial diagnosis. It costs an estimated P1.1 billion to diagnose and treat unconfirmed cases of dengue, yet only half the amount, or P500 million, is spent in similar...

DESPITE grim predictions following the 1997 Asian financial crisis, analysts have been pleasantly surprised by the continuous economic growth of the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea and the rest of the East Asia region. The five...

ROBY Alampay, executive director of the Bangkok-based regional media watchdog, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), wrote an op-ed piece that came out in The Nation yesterday, appealing for help in getting the word out about the need to impress upon...

THE Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is concerned that freedom of expression and the media have come under threat from the Thai military, two days after it deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and took over the reins of...