FACT SHEET: How do bike lanes affect traffic?
A Social Weather Stations survey in 2022 showed that one in four Filipino households owned a bicycle. The figure is higher in Metro Manila, where one in three households had a bike.
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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Problems rocking the salt industry?
Sen. Cynthia Villar, who chairs the committee, said Republic Act No. 8172, known as the Act for Salt Iodization Nationwide (ASIN), has become a “deterrent” to the development of the industry that produced 300,000 metric tons of salt in 1994, a year before ASIN became law.
FACT SHEET: Understanding the risks of orbital debris to Filipinos
PhilSA issued two advisories warning the public of the potential risks of falling orbital debris from two space rockets launched by China.
FACT SHEET: Is the Philippine debt still ‘manageable’?
At the start of 2023, an international debt watcher reported that the Philippines is among the few countries that will see a decline in their debt stock “by several percentage points” based on projected high nominal GDP growth.
FACT SHEET: Disparity in body count of drug war victims explained
The Marcos administration has revamped the government’s anti-drug campaign in a bid to focus on demand reduction and rehabilitation of users, as opposed to the all-out war that led to the death of thousands of Filipinos in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
