When the transportation secretary joins a community walk along EDSA
Vince Dizon showed up with a small cup of coffee. He could have been anyone getting breakfast at Jollibee on an early Monday morning, dressed casually in a white polo shirt and khaki pants.
Except the transportation secretary was standing in the middle of a sea of people decked out in workout clothes and neon safety vests — participants of Move As One Coalition’s community walk along EDSA on May 26.
When PhilHealth did not even cover 1% of a hospital bill
Supreme Court Associate Justice Jhosep Lopez said that one of the mandates of the Universal Health Care (UHC) law was to ensure that “no Filipino family should suffer as a consequence of one’s sickness.”
The law was passed in 2019 — although discussions in the recently concluded oral arguments on the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) showed that the law’s potential has yet to be fully realized.
How will PhilHealth’s fund transfer affect Filipinos’ access to healthcare?
Experts ranging from a doctor to an economist faced the Supreme Court on Tuesday, February 4, to explain how taking away P89.9 billion of “excess funds” from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will put healthcare beyond the reach of the ordinary Filipino.
View story from February 5, 2025. Written with Lian Buan.
Groups and migrant workers advocates, led by Migrante International, stage a prayer rally in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs on September 5, 2022. Photo taken by Kaycee Valmonte.
186 groups write to ask for Mary Jane Veloso's release for Women Emancipation Day
Celia Veloso, mother of detained Filipino Mary Jane Veloso, is asking Indonsia's Minister of Women and Empowerment and Child Protection Gusti Ayu Bintang Darmawati to finally free her daughter after over a decade of detention.
'Ambulance chasing', decarbonization can still rock the boat for Filipino seafarers
Keeping more Filipinos employed on the world's ships will need more than reforms to maritime education and training programs, industry leaders said, adding Filipino seafarers face more challenges as global shipping changes.
Edinel Magtibay-Dearden on her first day as Executive Producer of SBS Filipino on March 9, 2023, a one-hour daily program at Australia-based SBS. Photo taken by Kaycee Valmonte.
SBS Filipino, telling stories for and of Australia’s fifth largest migrant community
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Dealing with ‘double burden’: The guilt migrant domestic workers carry
Alone in a new country, deprived of the familiar protection of family and friends, migrant women workers face unique challenges that many of them also feel guilty for.
Manila court: Not all activists are part of underground movement
In dismissing the Department of Justice’s proscription petition against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army, the Manila court warned against the dangers of red-tagging groups or activists that are simply airing concerns on their specific advocacies or to how the government is running the nation.
No shortage of nurses but low pay, lack of tenure driving them abroad
While it is not new for nurses in the Philipines opting to go abroad in search of better opportunities, this time, the wave of resignations comes just as the country is anticipating another surge in COVID-19 infections.