President Aquino explains omission of the RH Bill from his July 25, 2011 SONA

In an interview with Jessica Soho of GMA News, Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III explains the absence of any mention of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill in his State of the Nation Address delivered to Congress on the 25th July 2011:

Church will 'never surrender' - Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma

The Philippine Roman Catholic Church will "never surrender" even if President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III approves the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill being debated in the Philippine Congress. This is according to Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Philippines is in the middle of an "all-out war" against the RH Bill and some of its officials had recently gone on record to incite acts of civil disobedience and tax boycotts in the event the bill is passed...

Economic growth inadequate to compensate for runaway population growth in the Philippines!

Population Commission acting deputy executive director Rosalindo Marcelino went on record to state a big IF to qualify the notion that robust population growth can "contribute to economic development". According to Marcelino, population growth is a plus "only if your workforce is productive, skilled, educated and competitive."

Pacquiao mother decries gay men use of birth control pills to increase size of 'dede'

Another shot in the foot for the Pacquiao celebrity clan as the Pacquiao motherhood unit "Mommy Dionisia" lets out another bomb of a public statement allegedly containing slurs against the homosexual community. Not only that, she injects a liberal dose of her personal pseudo-science into her pronouncement reportedly made as she dueled with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago over Philippine Reproductive Health (RH)...

Church continues to abuse Catholic 'sacraments' for its clerics' anti-RH agendas

They are Church-led initiatives blatantly billed as "protest" actions against a state matter -- Philippine Reproductive Health -- being debated in the halls of the national legislature. Yet in the same vein, religious and some specifically-Catholic terminology is used to describe the scheduled activities; a "prayer" rally, culminating in a "Mass", to be held in Roman Catholic Church property, the Immaculate Conception Cathedral grounds in Malolos is what the report says...

No need to panic over nuclear meltdowns in Japan

The air is understandably thick with fear, as the on-going crises surrounding the damage sustained by Japanese nuclear power plants resulting from the recent monster earthquake unfolds. The prospect of a catastrophic reactor meltdown and the possible release, as a result, of radioactive material into the atmosphere was described in an early news report as a disaster that could possibly affect a large swath of the Asia-Pacific region. Images of the plight of survivors of nuclear disasters such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster tend to come up whenever the word "radiation" is heard or read.

Malaysian research institute releases dengue-fighting mosquitoes into forest

In an experiment aimed at finding a solution to the ravages of dengue fever, the Institute for Medical Research, a facility run by the Malaysian government, released into a forest 6,000 genetically-engineered mosquitoes. These were all male mosquitoes that would mate with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and either prevent them from having offspring or spawn shorter-lived offspring.