PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — POLICE and military officials have placed Mindanao under “extreme critical alert”—the highest of a four-step public terror warning system—after three bombings this week left 12 people dead and…
PRC to swear in passers of nurses’ test
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Philippine Regulation Commission will administer the oath to all nursing graduates who passed the leak-tainted bar exams in June once a temporary restraining order on the agency…
GMA orders dismantling of billboards
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has signed a new order spelling out the rules and procedures on the dismantling of billboards along major roads. Administrative Order 160-A calls for…
Automated Election Bill gets Senate nod
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — After almost a year of deliberations, marked with bitter and long debates, the Senate yesterday voted 13-0 and approved the Automated Election Bill, shortly before adjourning for a…
On Human Tragedy: Overpopulation
Let me start by enumerating those resources we enjoy for free – public roads, schools, hospitals and the faura and fauna of our rich environment. Being open for everyone’s consumption, these resources…
Running Out of Time With Overpopulation
As of 2005, the Philippines is home to 85 million Filipinos. Considering the annual population growth rate of 2.3%, the country’s population might reach and even grow above 95 million in as…
Skepticism greets CFO task force
by JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOS www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—ANOTHER task force created by a government agency was met with skepticism by migrants’ rights advocates. Reeling from reports of undocumented workers jumping to their deaths to escape…
Police says going high-tech vs. illegal-recruiters
by WILLIAM IMPERIAL www.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY—POLICE officials in one of the key metropolitan cities said they are going to be aggressive in weeding out illegal recruiters, using surveillance cameras and other advanced…
US labor unions adrift over foreign workers’ activism
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA — JOHN Ford was flipping an egg in his kitchen when union members and immigrant activists in the Bay Area marched down Market Street…
Pinoys ‘in hiding’ abroad a million less after 7 years
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA – ARE more Filipinos here coming out to explore the belly of the beast legally? In view of American officials’ moves to squeeze out…
Voting thru mail likely in 39 more countries by 2007
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA — OVERSEAS Filipinos spread in four continents who have registered for the national elections next year are expected to vote by mail, a Philippine…
Organize to survive, health expert advises Pinoy nurses
by MARLENE H. ELMENZO www.ofwjournalism.net MAKATI CITY–HAVING a collective voice may save the jobs of Filipino nurses threatened to be sucked into the fiscal hole of the United Kingdom’s public health system,…
On Philippine Population
Viewpoint It is quite surprising how a small country like the Philippines is one of the world’s leading baby-makers. Just a look at the countless shanties near the sidewalk and the number…
Filipinos Enjoined to Support Pistahan sa Kyoto 2006
The academic community in Kyoto, known as the bosom of Japanese culture, is planning to hold an event commemorating the 50th year of restoration of the diplomatic relations between the Philippines and…
The Problem with Population
The Problem of Overpopulation in the Philippines By Jose Angelo Cuyegkeng Amidst the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often ignore the people we pass by. We overlook the thousands…