To those among us who live in the dystopian present, and have learned to embrace the chaos that is daily life in Metro Manila, the idea of achieving a liveable city through urban planning and design sounds like so much pie in the sky.
Rankings of the best and worst countries to grow old, according to the UN-backed Global AgeWatch Index 2013, were released on Tuesday, the first survey of its kind to collect global data on the well-being of the elderly in a rapidly aging world.
On any given day in a state primary school in India, up to one in four teachers is missing. The cost for a country that sees its young population as its ticket to superpower status is huge.
About 15 million premature babies are born every year — more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic.
1.66 million: Total number of live births recorded in PH in 2006. This was 1.5 percent less than the 1.69...
BATANG ina (child mothers) is how they refer to women like Maphil Sungahid, whose childhood is interrupted, practically snatched from...
