Earn making your own video

Earn by making your own video. Upload it at YouTube. To attain a viral dimension, well it must go over one million views. Click on this colored link.

The 7th billionth baby

And to prepare for the arrival of "Baby 7 billion" on Oct. 31, the UN has put together a world anthem to encourage all of Earth's citizens to improve human and environmental health. Because it's impossible to keep up with every birth and death in the world, the date reflects an estimate of reaching 7 billion rather than the exact date itself.

On reproductive health bill comment by a Catholic

As a practicing Catholic and an education professional, I am dismayed that the Church in the Philippines is operating as if we were in the Middle Ages when debate and discussion were an affront to the institution.

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Human Development Report

The human development report of 2005.

Cost of War

Raissa Robles writes about the cost of war in Mindanao versus the MILF. A historical perspective started from former President Joseph Estrada's all-out-war was told.

Tax at Quezon City, New

Taxing the “haves” in order to provide for the “have nots.”
Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista will sign into law on Oct. 25 a controversial ordinance which will impose a .05 percent hike in real property tax for a lot with an assessed value of P100,000 or more.
Under the Social Housing Tax Ordinance which was passed by the city council on third and final reading on Monday, the increase will be implemented for five years.

65 million Filipinos at risk to disasters, says expert

MANILA, Philippines—Criss-crossed by active faults and located in the “bulls-eye” of storms, the Philippines is the world’s third “riskiest” country and is more vulnerable to rising sea-levels, subsiding land and warming temperatures than Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Ma. Antonia J. Yulo Loyzaga, executive director of the Manila Observatory, painted this grim scenario during her talk on the Philippines’ increasing vulnerability to disasters and climate change in Makati City on Tuesday.
Loyzaga said 50 million schoolchildren are exposed to earthquake hazards while 15 million residents in coastal towns are vulnerable to rising sea-levels.

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