Earlier this month, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) expressed concern over what it said was the alarming increase in the number of barangay officials killed this year ahead of the midterm elections and urged authorities to conduct swift investigations into the cases. “We call for a thorough and impartial investigation into each of these cruel attacks, with the perpetrators promptly identified and prosecuted in accordance with the law,” the CHR said. The killings could affect voter
The Philippine national hunger problem would not be as hard to manage if there were not as many as 28 million families—the family, not the individual, is the Social Weather Stations hunger unit—to regularly provide with food. Nor would the traffic problem be as difficult if there were not as many as 10 million adults in the National Capital Region. Only 50 years ago, there were less than half as many to provide for. Everyone knows that population grows at a compound rate. As people reproduce, there are more of them who can reproduce. The Law of 69 is inexorable: if
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