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Anne is a seasoned journalist and corporate communications specialist. After 13 years in the health care industry, she is back to where she started—print media.

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Commissioners for Good Governance

The Governance Commission for Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations (GCG) has to oversee more than 100 GOCCs. Republic Act 10149 or the “GOCC Governance Act of...

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The GCG at a glance

With the creation of the Governance Commission for Government-owned or -Controlled Corporations (GCG), there is now an agency that centrally and directly monitors GOCCs,...

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Batting for a G.R.E.A.T. GCG

Good governance, Rightsizing, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency After serving as Associate Justice of the Sandiganbayan for 14 years, retired Justice Alex L. Quiroz availed of...

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Novartis offers solutions to medicine access problem through its access principles

A major problem emerged at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFMA) reported at that time,...

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Pneumonia vaccine should be made available to all adults—experts

With an ageing population and the need for a healthy workforce, the government and the private sector have to work together to make the pneumonia vaccine available to vulnerable segments of the population to protect them against this vaccine-preventable disease as well as boost morale in the workplace.

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Overcoming immunity debt with nutrition

Now that children are back in school, it is important for parents to keep a check on their children’s immunity debt. Quoting a study conducted...

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Operation Smile: Changing lives one smile at a time

In 1982, Dr. William P. Magee, Jr., an American plastic surgeon, and his wife Kathleen, a nurse and clinical social worker, traveled to Naga City with a group of medical volunteers to repair children’s cleft lips and cleft palates. At that time, the team only managed to treat 40 children. As they prepared to leave, the Magees made a promise that they would return to help more children. With that promise, Operation Smile Philippines was born.

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Of Pinoy culture and CPR

Filipinos are known for their bayanihan spirit, where they have a sincere desire to help fellow Filipinos without expecting anything in return. However, there...

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Sleeping your way to health

Now that life is slowly returning to normal, you will be easing back into your pre-pandemic routine of reporting for work in the office,...

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Playbook to aid in COVID-19 uptake launched

Vaccination is so far the best weapon against the COVID-19 virus that has been hogging the headlines for the past two years. However, as...

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Pag-IBIG sets record anew as home loans reach P76.94B in Jan to Aug, up 6%

Pag-IBIG Fund has released P76.94 billion in home loans in the last eight months, breaking its record on the highest home loan disbursement for any January to August period, agency officials announced on Friday (September 15). “We are happy to report that Pag-IBIG Fund has once again set...

PhilHealth receives commendation from Cebu Provincial Board for dialysis benefit expansion

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) was recently recognized by the Cebu Provincial Board for expanding its coverage for hemodialysis from 90 to 156 sessions. The Provincial Board in its Resolution No. 1759-2023 approved on August 11, 2023, “commend(s) and express(es) utmost gratitude to PhilHealth for the...

Santan

In the middle of the park,I am a pink and smooth baby – my mother manages to put santanin my fists, the grass makes me rash like hell and I scratch it out --nails like needles, my skin turns the same shade as the flowersI’m molding into necklaces. I have sucked...

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Catch the September 2023 cover of the Philippines Graphic Reader! Featuring: SHORT STORIES * The Visible Part of the Brain by Ninotchka Rosca * Somebody Else by Noelle Q. De Jesus * The Root of All Evil by Therese Q. Yaptenco-Loyloy * The Ship by E. Agnes Puerto POETRY * Two Poems for 2023 by...

Letting It Be

I woke up about 2:00 a.m., the way one abruptly wakes up in an unfamiliar place. Yet this is home, and I was in my room, in the house where I grew up. The night was eerily silent, no curtain dancing in the air. Stumbling through darkness, I...

The Pakil Tourism Master Plan: What to expect in the next 10 years

Laguna de Bay, the second largest inland waterbody in Southeast Asia, divides the town of Pakil in Laguna. As a consequence, tourism development in the town’s 13 barangays has developed along two distinct clusters. The first cluster, referred to as Poblacion, focuses on faith-based, cultural, and heritage tourism....

Why Red Ribbon’s NEW Caramel Delight Cake is the creamy & light caramel sensation you need to try

We all have our favorite go-to treats that give us that much-needed dopamine boost. Most of the time, they come in the form of delicious desserts that brighten up even the most hectic days. If you’re looking for a new treat to give you happiness with each...

ALC Media Group receives six awards at the Philippines Finest Business Awards 2023

ALC Media Group achieved a remarkable feat by receiving six awards at the Philippines Finest Business Awards and Outstanding Achievers 2023. The ceremony, held at The Hexagon Events Place on September 8, 2023, witnessed the company's outstanding contributions to the media industry being duly recognized. The awards encompassed...

British Council launches Connections Through Culture (CTC) grant for 2023-24 awarding up to PHP 700,000

Connections through Culture (CTC) applications is now open for artistic collaborations between the UK and East Asian countries, supporting projects that tackle climate change, diversity and inclusion. The British Council announces the launch of the Connections Through Culture (CTC) Grants for artists and cultural institutions, opening new opportunities...

Inner Angels

To You, All Those Years Ago Little oneDo the yelling voices paralyze you?Just a while ago, she was singing you a gentle lullabyAs she cradled you in her armsHe was imitating a steam train from your favorite cartoonAs he brought to your lips a spoonThat carried something delicious...

Everything Taken Together Has the Weight of Heaven

For Padmapani Perez I have often imagined meeting Alicia again, the woman Angelico swore would love him for the rest of his life. As if that meant anything. It has been years—all that past coalescing in my head into a kind of gelatinous thought, something thick and forbidding—and...

Pakil: A transformation no one expected

The three terms of Mayor Vincent L. Soriano have sent a tsunami of change in Pakil, transforming this once sleepy town into a hub of rapid, people-centered development. Over the last seven years, Soriano has spearheaded the undertaking of essential programs and projects that have modernized the thinking...

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