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Delays in implementation of road safety law put children at risk

May 05, 2016 6:00 AM

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL ASK all five presidential candidates about their plans for children and most of them would touch on providing classrooms and free lunch for undernourished kids. When it comes to transport issues, they would often discuss the worsening traffic problem in urban areas and their plans to solve it. This election season, […]

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Open letter to the next president: Make PH roads safe

Apr 23, 2016 8:36 AM

By DINNA LOUISE C. DAYAO THEY were all in their teens. John Russel Garcia, John Paul Tena, Kirby Bokingo, Jaymee Gubaton, Bren Loren Calabines, and Rodalyn Bautista were graduating Grade 10 students. They had their whole lives ahead of them: graduations, college, careers. But everything ended in a fiery crash on a road in Tagaytay […]

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Meet the Road Safety Fellows

Apr 18, 2016 8:52 PM

IN MARCH, VERA Files conducted a road safety orientation seminar and training workshop for the 10 fellows chosen under the Road Safety Journalism Fellowship. Together with road safety advocates from the World Health Organization, VERA Files’ partner in the fellowship, the journalists took part in the three-day interaction, along with other stakeholders of the Bloomberg Initiative […]

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Road safety journalism award launched

Apr 17, 2016 1:48 PM

JOURNALIST and VERA Files trustee Ellen Tordesillas announced on April 12 the launch of a new award to honor the best student work on road safety issues. The Chit Estella Road Safety Journalism Award, named in honor of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella-Simbulan, will be given next year as a special category in the Philippine Journalism Research […]

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Apply Now | Road Safety Journalism Fellowship

Dec 14, 2015 6:19 PM

ROAD crashes are among the leading causes of death in the Philippines. The 2015 World Health Organization’s Global Status Report on Road Safety estimates 10,379 fatalities in the country a year, half of them motorcycle riders, followed by pedestrians. Stories of road crashes that kill, injure and permanently disable people are regular fare in newspapers and […]

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Road safety awareness run to mark Chit Estella’s 1st death anniversary

May 12, 2012 10:45 PM

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES

GOVERNMENT and private groups are coming together to promote road safety on May 13, the first death anniversary of journalist Lourdes “Chit” Estella Simbulan, who died in a road accident last year.

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