Philippines

06.09.2010
Aquino promises justice as Philippines president
MANILA, Philippines -- Benigno Aquino III was proclaimed president Wednesday and promised justice and action on a host of issues plaguing the Philippines, including poverty and corruption.

05.12.2010
Automated polls successful – VP, diplomats
Vice President Noli de Castro and members of the diplomatic corps are convinced that the country’s first stab at automated elections a success, citing the high voter turnout despite sweltering heat and long lines in jampacked clustered precincts and electronic glitches.

05.12.2010
Huge challenges face Philippine heir apparent Aquino
There is a saying in the Philippines that in an election there are no losers - only winners and those who have been cheated.

05.10.2010
Automated polls to test democracy in Philippines today
MANILA — Despite scattered violence and a rush to fix a computer glitch, officials said yesterday that the Philippines’s first automated presidential and local elections this week will be a successful test of its fragile democracy.

03.29.2010
Editorial: War over water
WATER, so goes the cliché, is life. But water—dirty, untreated, tainted with chemicals—can also be death, a reality that confronts billions of people around the world.

03.22.2010
Helen Clark: Address to ILO on the Social Dimension of Globalization
It is an honour and privilege for me to address this ILO Working Party on the Social Dimension of Globalisation this morning.

03.22.2010
EDITORIAL - Clean water for a healthy world
World Water Day is marked today with approximately 884 million people, most of them in Africa, living without access to safe drinking water.

03.20.2010
When water becomes source of conflict
BAYUGAN CITY, Philippines—Water for farm irrigation is a prime commodity in Bayugan, a newly declared city of agricultural communities in Agusan del Sur where heart-rending, violent stories about irrigation water’s distribution flood many farmers’ memories.

03.19.2010
RP pushes ratification of U.N. treaty on migrant workers
THE Philippines, with 8 million overseas workers, will intensify its campaign to ratify the United Nations treaty that protects the rights of migrant workers after Arab countries adopted the Manila Declaration at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting

02.25.2010
Maguindanao massacre mirrors corruption
The Maguindanao massacre where at least 57 civilians were brutally killed demonstrated how entrenched and systemic the roots of corruption in the Philippines are, a United Nations official said. Renaud Meyer, the country director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), made this statement during the opening this week of the “Second Integrity and Human Rights Conference: A Presidential Forum” at the Hotel Intercontinental in Makati City (Metro Manila).