Generations of college students reared on the standard Rizal textbook by Gregorio Zaide were introduced to the so-called “Rizal A...
2009: Year that Proclamation No. 1777, which declares every 4th week of June as “National Poison Prevention Week,” was signed....
3.48 million: Total number of registered motorcycles and tricycles in PH 2010, according to the Land Transportation Office (LTO). 1...
LONDON – Angola’s capital Luanda retained the unenviable title of the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, narrowly edging out...
925 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who were undernourished in 2010, down from 1.023 billion in 2009, according to...
117: Number of the government’s national emergency hotline. 1978: Year that the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), the forerunner of...
300+: Number of women elected as municipal councilors in November 1937, two months after Filipino women won the right of...
22,879: Number of construction projects that were granted building permits during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the National...
3.6 million: Estimated number of Filipinos aged 65 and older, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Office...
There are, according to 2007 figures from the National Statistics Office, 3.6 million elderly folk in the Philippines aged 65...
