California has banned local authorities from trying to outlaw male circumcision, after a group lobbied to prohibit the practice in San Francisco.
When Marita last checked herself into a hospital, it was to recover from the violent beatings her husband gave her....
Shortly after Super Typhoon âYolandaâ struck our country, an international watch group cautioned on the possibility of child trafficking.
Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress has legalized abortion and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana.
Businesswoman and former Las Piñas Representative Cynthia Villar, wife of Sen. Manny Villar, recently took a stand in the raging debate on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill. At the risk of alienating pro-choice and progressive womenâs groups, the senatorial aspirant described herself as âpro-life.â
Back in college, my friends and I never really gave much thought about fraternities, except in passing when the Alpha Phi Omega would hold its annual Oblation Run in neighboring UP. In the past few years, however, I have become concerned about these Greek-lettered organizations.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said she could not stand watching legislators and their spouses took turns displaying âblingâ clothes and jewelry during President Benigno Aquinoâs fourth state of the nation address (SONA) Monday.
Porcupines in cages, endangered tortoises in buckets and snakes in cloth bags â rare wildlife is on open sale at a Chinese market, despite courts being ordered to jail those who eat endangered species.
Sweden had a head start in the good parenting debate as the first country to outlaw smacking but some argue that its child-centred approach has gone too far and children now rule the roost.
When a prominent lawyer complained publicly that a food establishment would not give him the 20-percent discount for senior citizens after he showed his government-issued identification card bearing his date of birth, not a few people thought he was being unreasonable.
