THE GOVERNMENT’s budget balance remained in deficit in October but plunged from a year ago due to a drop in spending and a recovery in revenue collections, according to preliminary Treasury data that also showed that monthly and year-to-date programs were missed. Read the full story.

Business expectations survey

November 28, 2016 | 10:35 am

Can we achieve universal health care in the Philippines?

November 25, 2016 | 11:32 pm

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

CAN we copy Cuba’s universal health care program? The socialist nation has one of the best examples of a Universal Health Care (UHC) program in the world: it gives incentives to its doctors to stay, it has a low doctor-patient ratio (currently 1:1,075), and no patients pay out of pocket.

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Martial Law Movies

November 25, 2016 | 11:32 pm

By Noel Vera

RODRIGO DUTERTE on former President Ferdinand Marcos (italics mine): “President Marcos was a president for so long and he was a soldier. So that’s about it. Whether or not he performed worse or better, there is no study, there is no movie about it. It’s just the challenges and allegations of the other side which [are] not enough”

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Little evidence for risks, or benefits, of habitual barefootedness

November 25, 2016 | 11:31 pm

STUDIES on the long-term effects of habitual barefoot walking or running are scarce, and there is only limited evidence for more foot problems and no evidence for higher injury rates among people who are often barefoot, according to a new review.

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Polluted water in hand, Nigerian king takes Shell to court in London

November 25, 2016 | 11:31 pm

LONDON — King Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi holds up a plastic bottle containing contaminated water from his community in Nigeria, proof of oil pollution that he blames on Royal Dutch Shell — and on which he hopes a London court will deliver justice.

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What to see this week

November 25, 2016 | 11:31 pm

8 films to see on the week of November 25-December 2, 2016

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