Stories tagged
‘pangasinan’

Population growth drops when women are free to choose

by Jaileen F. Jimeno

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Since 1975, the year Pangasinan’s population office was created by then Gov. Aguedo Agbayani, Luz Muego’s life has been governed by numbers. At the time, Muego was a researcher at the office. Now she is the province’s population officer, but she is still preoccupied with all sorts of figures.

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

Local officials spend on roads, not health

by Yvonne T. Chua

ALLAN EVANGELISTA of Quezon City signed up with the Doctors to the Barrio program last year despite suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, an incurable disease of the heart muscle that actor Aga Muhlach introduced to Filipinos through his 2004 movie “All My Life.”

Read more… | Posted Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005