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Pnp Records 12.40% Crime Rate Decline in 2025

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has recorded a 12.40 percent decline in crime incidents from January to December 2025. In a statement on January 3, 2025, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said 35,717 crime incidents were recorded in the entire 2025, fewer than the 40,771 incidents recorded in 2024.

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Published at 2026-01-04 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Politics, Society

Tags: Police, crime, crime statistics

The Philippines: Digital Transparency and Storytelling to Build Trust

The Philippines is moving forward with a strong commitment to strengthening transparency and citizen engagement by empowering both government communicators and young people with the digital skills necessary to navigate today’s fast-changing information landscape. Recent initiatives reflect a shared vision of ensuring that communication in the country is not only more accessible and efficient but also grounded in truth, accountability and responsibility.

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Published at 2025-09-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Society, Technology

Tags: companies, inventors, technology

Cruise Tourism Brings Benefits to Communities in the Northern Ph

The arrival of international cruise ships at ports in the Northern Philippines’ Ilocos Region is significantly boosting the importance of cruise tourism in the country. Other places the ship visited in the Philippines include Puerto Princesa in Palawan and Boracay Island in Caticlan.

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Published at 2025-02-24 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Society, Travel

Tags: Tourism, cruise, passengers

Global Gender Gap Index Reports Progress in the Philippines

This year’s Global gender gap index shows that Thailand has significantly improved on gender equality in the category of educational attainment. The country is ranked 61st, which is up from 92nd last year. With this improvement, the country’s overall position is now 74th. The same report shows, that the Philippines has become better at addressing gender equality, ranking 16th place among 146 countries, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2023.

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Published at 2023-06-29 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, People, Society

Tags: Education, Workers

27 Million Pinoys Overweight or Obese – Global Pharmaceutical Firm

Around 27 million Filipinos are considered overweight or obese, according to a leading global health care company as World Obesity Day was observed last Saturday. “Obesity is particularly prevalent in the Philippines, where 36.6 percent of individuals aged 20 years or older meet the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index or BMI cutoff points for being overweight or obese,”

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Published at 2023-03-06 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Society

Tags: Health, obesity

Tacloban City: Silently Survived, and Bravely Booming

The collective will of the people who were devastated physically, emotionally, and economically around ten years ago, prevailed. The onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013 claimed thousands of lives and destroyed millions worth of properties. But the sense of courage, and goal of overcoming the devastation is much stronger. And the pride in what the city is right now, vibrant, and progressive, has captured our impression during our recent visit in the city.

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Published at 2023-03-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Environment, Society

Tags: Tacloban, Visayas

Villar Eyes More Empowerment for Filipino Women

Senator Cynthia Villar eyes further empowerment of women, stoppage of gender bias and promotion of equality in the community as the country observes National Women’s Month.

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Published at 2023-03-07 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Opinion, Society

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The Power of Millennial Votes in Southeast Asia

In early 2019, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines will go to polls in elections that will either continue the populist/authoritarian dynamics that has gripped the region, and the world, over the past few years or begin to halt it. All three countries have reached a critical crossroad with poll choices that could influence the destiny of the country for decades to come.

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Published at 2023-03-05 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Opinion, Politics, Society

Tags: Duterte, President, country

Philippine Onion: Most Expensive in the World

The retail price of red onions ranging from P550 to P700 per kilo in markets around Metro Manila on New Year's Eve made unpleasant headlines during the festive season. Red onion was sold at P90 to P120 in mid-2021 and P120 to P170 four months ago. Onion prices hover around P85 in Singapore, P55 in Vietnam, P35 in China and in India.

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Published at 2023-01-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Food and Dining, Society

Tags: China, agriculture, country, farming, government, production

PH 2021 Population Growth Lowest in 7 Decades

The Philippines' population for 2021 increased by 324,000 or a mere 0.3 percent compared to the 2020 data of 914,797 births.

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Published at 2021-12-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, History, Society

Tags: growth, population

Traditional Jeepneys No Longer 'kings of the Road' in Cebu City

The traditional jeepneys are no longer the “kings of the road” in Cebu City as the Jeepney Task Force (JTF) notes a significant drop of jeepneys plying the streets as compared to the pre-pandemic days.

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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Culture, Society

Tags: Cebu, Jeepney, Modern

Hope for the Farmers

Cherrie Atilano is the founding farmer and CEO of AGREA Agricultural Systems, an innovative and inclusive agribusiness enterprise anchored on sustainable agriculture, fair trade and a replicable model of an agri-based economy.

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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, News and Events, Society

Tags: Market, agriculture, farming, production

Deep 'scarring' from Virus Holds Back PH Recovery

The Philippines’ economic recovery lags behind in Asia, no thanks to deep pandemic scarring, and it could take beyond 2023 to return to its prepandemic growth potential, think tanks said.

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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Society

Tags: COVID-19, capital, economy

What Keeps PH Business Owners Up at Night?

Day 8 Business Academy Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), conducted a survey between June and August this year to determine the current state of mind of SME business owners and see what kind of help or assistance they need given the daunting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Published at 2021-10-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Society

Tags: COVID-19, business

'Silence is No Longer an Option'

Nimfa Lanzanas is a model mother. Eversince the government imprisoned her son Edward, she attended court proceedings and also joined relatives of other political prisoners in a common cause.

Exactly what crime Nanay Nimfa has committed, only the government knows. But on what is now infamously known as Bloody Sunday, the government had her arrested and turned Nanay Nimfa into a political prisoner herself.

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Published at 2021-03-13 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Opinion, People, Society

Tags: Cavite, government