Nation Archives – Page 7 of 7

6 min

As Sept. 30 deadline draws near, voter applicants ‘frustrated’ with registration mishaps

Posted on 20 September 202120 September 2021
byRhenzel Raymond Caling

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.

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3 min

14K petitioners urge Shopee and Lazada: ‘reveal, reduce and redesign’ packaging

Posted on 10 September 202120 September 2021
byJan Cuyco

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.’

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6 min

Immunocompromised, afraid: HIV treatment tails off amid COVID-19

Posted on 7 September 20219 September 2021
byGabryelle Dumalag

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.

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5 min

[OPINION] We don’t need another Hidilyn Diaz story

Posted on 25 August 20219 September 2021
byJohn Mark Garcia

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.

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3 min

UP in the air: What you need to know from the proposed 2022 budget for UP

Posted on 24 August 20219 September 2021
byRhenzel Raymond Caling and Renz Palalimpa

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.

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4 min

Chemicals linked to breast cancer flagged in household products: study

Posted on 16 August 20219 September 2021
byGabryelle Dumalag

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.

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5 min

“Kailangan mo talagang gawin kahit delikado”: Labor issues beset courier riders amid pandemic

Posted on 13 August 20215 February 2022
byChelsea Visto

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.

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6 min

EDITORIAL: Athletes are more than their weight in gold

Posted on 10 August 202126 July 2022
byTinig ng Plaridel

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.

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7 min

Can public schools pandemic-proof their classrooms before students’ in-person return?

Posted on 21 July 20215 February 2022
byCristina Chi

Overcrowded classrooms would no doubt be dangerous in the middle of a pandemic, says an infectious disease expert. This only mounts more questions on how public schools can come up with enough learning spaces without waiting years for new classrooms to be built.

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8 min

How far must Quezon City residents go for healthcare?

Posted on 16 July 20215 February 2022
byRenz Palalimpa

In Quezon City, a hospital is a rarity as they can be found in only 22 of the city’s 142 barangays. These hospitals are not only rare, but also poorly-distributed, experts say, as the city’s poor urban planning has made them too close to each other but too far from areas that need them the most.

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6 min

Lack of funding after free tuition law paralyzes student publications

Posted on 21 October 20192 February 2022
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado and Sofia Ines Abrogar

Student publications in state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines face one of their greatest operational hurdles yet: a funding loophole in the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education…