As Sept. 30 deadline draws near, voter applicants ‘frustrated’ with registration mishaps
Even when the Commission on Elections (Comelec) opened mall registration booths to draw more voters as the Sept. 30 deadline draws near, registrants were still met with obstacles in their application process.
[OPINION] No, Belo, I don’t need to buy my beauty
Women will not find their deliverance in a divisive paradigm of beauty. The true redress to the harms they endure is beyond individual cosmetization, rather in a collective liberation from the system that fuels their insecurities.
14K petitioners urge Shopee and Lazada: ‘reveal, reduce and redesign’ packaging
As Shopee and Lazada prepared to kick off a massive 9.9 sale, 14,000 individuals dropped a petition to demand urgent waste reduction and a sustainable delivery system to ‘enable a better normal.’
With UP short on vaccines, student jabs remain in limbo
UP Diliman’s COVID-19 immunization program #BakunahanSaDiliman believes that the university should extend vaccination services to all of its students. There’s one thing missing though, the government can’t give them enough vaccines.
Immunocompromised, afraid: HIV treatment tails off amid COVID-19
The treatment of people living with HIV (PLHIV) had to take a backseat as the pandemic limited their mobility. Extreme lockdowns blocked PLHIVs from lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, putting them in danger of not only contracting COVID-19 but other deadly diseases as well.
UP student councils call to realign intel funds to COVID response
The 51st GASC adopted 20 resolutions, several of which strengthened calls to reallocate funding from the state’s counterinsurgency wallet to the government’s economic relief and education programs.
Delays in scholarship aid, internet subsidy a ‘perennial problem’ — UP student councils
Several student councils across the UP system reported delays in the delivery of gadgets and internet subsidies through the Student Learning Assistance Support (SLAS) Online, which is meant to cushion the pandemic’s impact on financially challenged Iskolar ng Bayan.
[OPINION] We don’t need another Hidilyn Diaz story
UP Diliman’s student-athletes watched as Hidilyn Diaz scored the nation’s first gold. They saw themselves in her triumph, as they know the systemic underfunding and lack of support she had to overcome to get there. Perhaps, they know it a little too well.
UP in the air: What you need to know from the proposed 2022 budget for UP
In 2022, the UP system could face a P1.3 billion budget cut through the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) proposed national budget, which was submitted to the House of Representatives on Aug. 23, Monday.
Chemicals linked to breast cancer flagged in household products: study
The country’s first human biomonitoring study found that women in the Calabarzon region are highly exposed to per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) which have been linked to breast cancer. PFAS are found in household products and in the waste of electronic factories that thrive in the region.
“Kailangan mo talagang gawin kahit delikado”: Labor issues beset courier riders amid pandemic
As express logistics companies profit over mobility restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, their riders cannot say the same. In order to survive the pandemic, they must put their life on the line for wages that can barely sustain their family’s needs.
EDITORIAL: Athletes are more than their weight in gold
Credit-grabbers like Roque represent how politicians act in the country’s time of triumph. The only thing Duterte’s administration made possible for athletes is a conundrum: Olympians need to grab the gold to get the bare minimum, while politicians do only the bare minimum to grab the most gold.