FINDING ANSWERS The eating habits and food choices of Filipino children lead to high prevalence of malnutrition with undernutrition, including overweight and obesity. “Children are eating fewer fruits and vegetables, and more sugary, salty and fatty products,” according to a UNICEF report...
FINDING ANSWERS Nearly nothing else may be as repulsive as the slaughter of helpless children like what happened in Cavite last week. Watching TV news on the OFW mother describing the circumstances of the tragedy, one can feel the anguish she must have felt upon hearing on her cellphone her...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina It’s often been said that doing the same thing again and again but expecting different results is sheer insanity. Thus, some people ask, do the hundreds of diplomatic protests filed by the Philippines against China reflect some semblance of...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina “The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery,” wrote social reformer Frederick Douglass in 1849 so that slavery would be “forever abolished.” Yet, sadly, the misery of being tortured, raped, butchered, and...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina There’s no doubt that acquiring a good education is dependent on a person’s ability to learn, and such ability can be formed by experiences in early childhood. During the formative years in one’s life, the ability to “learn how to learn”...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina The news that China’s population of 1.41 billion people has fallen for the first time in six decades is quite troubling for our giant neighbor. The number of deaths in 2022 exceeding that of births by 850,000 is seen by experts on demographics as...
FINDING ANSWER Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina Many are hoping that the state visit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to China starting today until Jan. 5 would build trust and lead to smoother relations between the Philippines and its giant neighbor. The state visit comes at a time when...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina It can be said that Ukraine’s wartime hero, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the Philippines’ national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, are comparable in their effectiveness to capture the hearts and minds of the people in rallying against tyranny. Last...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The new Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayawan (BIDA) anti-illegal drugs campaign launched nationwide last Saturday will have to get the support of the entire nation if significant success is to be attained. And having the right strategies that make use of...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina For the perceived overwhelming majority of Filipinos who trust the United States and resent China’s incursions into the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the current visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris is a breath of fresh air. That the second highest...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The intention of the Marcos Jr. administration to build a million homes a year is deemed ambitious, considering the many challenges especially on funding. But if quite successful, it would certainly be a solid and highly significant legacy of our...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina As many face-to-face classes started yesterday in our public schools, the perennial problems prior to the pandemic – severe shortage of classrooms, teachers, and instructional materials – have surfaced anew. With around 27.69 million basic...
