World Bank: COVID-19 worsens child malnutrition, stunting in PH
Undernutrition would increase the likelihood of children performing worse at school and achieve lower productivity as adults.
Undernutrition would increase the likelihood of children performing worse at school and achieve lower productivity as adults.
Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos said recently that farmers can earn more by planting dragon fruit alternately with rice. “’Yung Taiwan malaki ang demanda ng dragon fruit (Taiwan has a high demand for dragon fruit). Eh [but] they can only plant dragon fruit three or four times, three or four months of the […]
Ang dragon fruit ba ay isang magandang alternatibong pananim sa palay? Maaari bang i-export ang prutas sa Taiwan?
In a press conference on Nov. 21, Justice Secretary Boying Remulla defended the decision of the Philippine delegation to reject the United Nations Human Rights Council’s recommendation to decriminalize abortion. “We have to discuss more on the policy of population growth kasi may lumalabas that there are benefits and there’s just good and bad about […]
Sa isang press conference noong Nob. 21, ipinagtanggol ni Justice Secretary Boying Remulla ang desisyon ng delegasyon ng Pilipinas na tanggihan ang rekomendasyon ng United Nations Human Rights Council na i-decriminalize ang aborsyon.
Dahil sa nakagugulantang na presyo ng mga bilihin dala ng pag-arangkada ng inflation sa bansa, pa’no nga ba nag-a-adjust ang millennials at Gen Zs? Pakinggan ang kwentuhan ng VERA Files reporters sa Episode 16 ng What The F?! Podcast.
Sa pagtatapos ng kanyang apat na araw na biyahe sa Cambodia para sa ika-40 at ika-41 ASEAN Summit and Related Summits, humarap si Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. sa Filipino community doon kung saan muli niyang sinabi na nakuha niya noong nakaraang Mayo ang “pinakamaraming boto” sa kasaysayan ng eleksyon sa Pilipinas. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.
While Marcos did garner the highest number of votes in Philippine electoral history, his share of the vote (58.7%) in the May 2022 balloting is only the country’s third highest vote percentage, next to former presidents Manuel L. Quezon (67.9%, 1935) and Ramon Magsaysay (68.9%, 1953).
Press freedom in the Philippines does not fare better than Singapore and Malaysia, according to the Paris-based World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.
Iginiit na “hindi patas” ang ginawa ng Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ng United Nations na ipahayag ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa mga ulat ng mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa bansa, kabilang ang pagkakapatay sa mamamahayag na si Percy Lapid, maling iginiit ni Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri na ang Pilipinas ay may “napakamalayang media” kumpara sa mga bansang tulad ng Malaysia, Singapore at Vietnam.