Despite the vulnerability of Filipino households to socioeconomic shocks and natural disasters, their access to financial services remains a laggard compared to the Philippines’ regional and income-level peers, the 2025 Global Findex Database of the World Bank showed. According to the World...
A comprehensive database on the Philippine infrastructure system and its most urgent demands is necessary for guiding infrastructure investments, according to a recent study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). The study titled “Transport Infrastructure in the Philippines:...
Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa believes that creating a Philippine National Police (PNP) DNA database would be a powerful crime deterrent. Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa stresses the importance of establishing a DNA database, noting that the process had solved cases of baby-switching,...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, Nov. 14, confirmed that it has received reports that the Covid-19 vaccination data from the Philippines stored within the World Health Organization (WHO) have been "compromised and leaked." Photo from Unsplash Issuing a statement, DOH said it is...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, May 22 renewed his push for the creation of a National Public School Database to streamline the enrollment process in the country. Gatchalian filed Senate Bill No. 478 or the proposed Public School Database Act, which mandates the Department of Education (DepEd)...
PNP headquarters Senator Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr. has filed Senate Resolution (SR) No.573 directing the appropriate Senate committees to conduct an inquiry into the alleged massive breaches in the databases of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and other government agencies recently. Revilla cited...
A geospatial database of the country’s natural resources will be created through a signed partnership between the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). "PhilSA Director General Joel Joseph Marciano, Jr., Ph.D. (second to the right) and...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada has filed a measure seeking to make all information about sex offenders in the Philippines available to the public. In filing Senate Bill No. 1291 or the proposed “National Sex Offender Registry Act,” Estrada said it is necessary for the government to establish a...
Without a unified database for vaccine recipients in the country, Hong Kong’s initial decision not to honor the vaccination cards of Filipinos is “bound to happen,” Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, August 15. Vice President Leni Robredo (Charlie Villegas/OVP) During her weekly...
The Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) exhorted the government on Friday, July 9, to provide a unified database of vaccinated individuals against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which will allow local government units (LGUs) to easily verify incoming tourists in their...
About one third of the commonly consumed foods were probable sources of sulfites in the Filipino diet, based on the results of a study conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science (DOST-FNRI). (PIXABY) The study titled “Estimation of Filipino Dietary Sulfite...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Thursday night, June 10, that it will seek the advice of the Office of Solicitor General (OSG) after th e Court of Appeals (CA) ordered the removal of Leyte Third District Rep. Vicente Veloso from the list of the Inter-Agency Drug Information...
