LIBEL cases are becoming greater threats to journalists in the hands of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, says lawyer Theodore Te of the Free Legal Assistance Group. Arroyo has studied the art of filing libel, because there is a “calculating aspect”...

TEARS welled up in his eyes when Dr. Resurreccion Sadaba saw “his mangrove tree,” a very rare specie and the only one of its kind on the whole Guimaras island, covered with thick, black oil. “I have been taking care of it for years. The (mangrove...

HERE'S a follow-up report from Inter Press Service Asia-Pacific on the Thai situation after the military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday night. POLITICS: Thais Wonder What Comes Next By Johanna Son BANGKOK, Sept 20 (IPS)...

FIVE in every 100 Filipinos are suffering from some form of depression, say mental health experts. Of them, a huge number have what doctors call “bipolar disorder” or “manic-depressive illness” -- swinging from depression to euphoria, unable to...

OUR next i Report health feature tries to explain bipolar disorder through the experience of someone whose mother was diagnosed as having the disease more than two decades ago. It shows the effects of the illness not only on the manic depressive herself,...

THE good news is that the 15,635 dengue cases recorded from January 1 to September 13 of this year have decreased by 40.7 percent compared to the same period last year. But this doesn't necessarily mean that we're doing a better job when it comes to...

THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's continuing crisis of leadership may have come to a fateful end, but has left Thais in a precarious wait-and-see situation as the Thai military declared a coup against him Tuesday night, imposing a provisional...