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How LGUs can help minimize disasters
With proper planning and risk insurance, the impact of natural calamities can be minimized
MANILA - When typhoon Kiko hit the Philippines in early August 2009, it caused eight landslides in various parts of the country that killed 15 people and forced the government to evacuate over 2,200 families.
By Purple Romero, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak 08/21/2009 2:57 AM
‘It would be better to raise a child in our home’
Giving birth and other stories from Mindanao’s evacuation centers
“It is difficult to live here. It would be better to raise a child in our home,” Rebecca Solon was quoted in a media release by the group Kalumaran. Her baby is the fourth child to be born in the evacuation center, while there are 13 pregnant women among the evacuees.
By Lilita Balane, Newsbreak 08/20/2009 10:13 PM
Did human traffickers murder RP attaché?
MANILA - Was social work attaché Finardo Cabilao murdered by human trafficking syndicates preying on Filipino women in Malaysia?
Groups involved in the fight against the trafficking menace believe he was. The foreign affairs department, however, cautions the public against prematurely jumping into such conclusions.
By Gemma Bagayaua Mendoza, abs-cbnNEWS.com/ Newsbreak 08/18/2009 7:11 PM
Contraceptives fight a test of faith for QC councilor
MANILA - When Quezon City Councilor Joseph Juico was approached to become the main sponsor of a population management and reproductive health ordinance for the city, he had no idea that he would become a lightning rod for persecution by the powerful Catholic Church in the city.
By David Dizon, abs-cbnNEWS.com 08/15/2009 8:34 PM
Indigenous Filipinos have voice in only 21 LGUs
With a population of 14 million, they should win in local elections, expert says
They number 12 million to 14 million nationwide. They have a presence in 110 communities. Yet they are represented—in appointive capacities at that—in only 21 local councils.
by Jesus Llanto, Newsbreak 08/12/2009 11:19 PM
18 foreigners still had kidney transplants after ban – Redcop
Local hospitals violated PGMA directive
Despite a government ban on kidney transplants for foreigners, 18 foreigners still had operations done in the Philippines from May to December 2008.
Anna Bueno, Newsbreak 08/07/2009 6:46 PM
Cory supporters' messages swamp Facebook
MANILA -- As the nation brought former President Corazon Aquino to her final resting place at the Manila Memorial Park on Wednesday, August 5, more and more supporters posted messages of gratitude, and said their farewells to the popular Philippine leader in cyberspace.
By Gemma Bagayaua, abs-cbnNEWS.com/ Newsbreak and Leilani Chavez, abs-cbnNEWS.com 08/05/2009 4:30 PM
Cory and our inscrutable politics - Malou Mangahas
If politics were a test of sainthood, we can count by the fingers of one hand the Filipino politicians who would make the grade. In my book, as a journalist who had covered Cory then and now, even with sometimes testy results, Cory would be in top running.
by Malou Mangahas, PCIJ 08/03/2009 8:24 PM
Cory Aquino and our magical democracy - Sheila Coronel
She reminded us we had a taste of greatness once and maybe we can have it again
by Sheila Coronel, PCIJ 08/01/2009 4:42 PM
Pinoys lose their democracy icon
MANILA – Cory Aquino, the Philippines' greatest icon of democracy in its contemporary history, is gone, and she will be badly missed as the country goes through a potentially volatile political transition.
by Isagani de Castro, Jr., abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak 08/01/2009 5:22 AM
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