AHEAD of the release late this month of the official report to the United Nations on how the country is faring in its implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) midway to the 2015 deadline, civil-society organizations are already saying...

IT’S still a man’s world out there, but as economist and popular public-affairs show host Solita ‘Winnie’ Monsod observes in the latest piece in i Report’s series on Filipino women, Pinays have already covered considerable ground on the road to...

WHAT happens when a government agency has P180 million for family planning supplies but is barred from buying contraceptives? Simple. Eight months pass and the guidelines for the release of the money are still being hammered out. The only thing that is...

THE Philippines once more finds itself in the middle of an electoral controversy, only this time involving elections in the United States. In a report airing tonight at HDNet, former CBS news anchor Dan Rather reveals that Election Systems &...

MAGUINDANAO elections supervisor Lintang Bedol has his work cut out for him if he plans on helping the Commission on Elections (Comelec) institute electoral reform by talking about how poll cheating is done. Many poll watchdogs have questioned the...

EVEN as the Philippines and 14 other developing countries in Asia are experiencing considerable measures of economic growth, there still is little reason to celebrate. This is because recent gains in the levels of expenditure have also come with...

PAST presidents have given priority to population management, seeing it as a vital part of economic development. Under the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo whose family planning policy consists of pushing only for natural methods, the...