Number of young smokers on the rise — survey

Inquirer.net 05/05/2017

Despite a decline in the number of Filipino adult smokers, younger smokers aged 13 to 15 went up in the past four years. This was according to the 2015 Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) released on Friday…

YOUNG GUNS CLASH

Glendale G. Rosal 05/03/2017

Youthful woodpushers collide in 2017 National Age-Group Chess C’ships Grand Finals The search for the next Wesley So is on as the country’s brightest young woodpushers strut their wares in prestigious 2017 National Age-Group Chess Championships (NAGCC)…

Young teachers joined forces to form national network

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/02/2017

  Windel Cabando was 15 when he was chosen by his Araling Panlipunan (Social Studies) teacher, Editha Fernandez, to represent Cansojong National High School in Talisay City in a quiz bee on Philippine history. Cabando was not…

200 young Oponganons get free circumcision

Norman V. Mendoza 04/24/2017

NEARLY 200 young boys benefited from the free circumcision initiated by the Bureau of Customs Sub-Port of Mactan at their office compound last Saturday. The beneficiaries were also given free medicines and ice cream after the circumcision.…

SECOND CHANCE

Jonas N. Panerio 03/06/2017

Controversial young cager Justin Rosete back playing for UV Beleaguered young cager Justin Jake Rosete is being given yet another chance by the University of the Visayas’ (UV) magnanimous team owner, Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas. This after…

Tell it like it is

Clint Holton Potestas 09/28/2016

Pinky Magalona’s ongoing evolution of style TO WATCH the breezy collages of eyelet lace, flying tulle, and sheered cotton waltzing out one sunny morning on the beach, you couldn’t detect a single visible clue that this was…

Goatherd

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 04/16/2016

I could see the road passing by the entrance to the village – the fleeting cars and tricycles that like the numerous veils of a dancer covered and uncovered the stall of a fish vendor on the…

12-year-old is Cebu’s youngest mother

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/26/2014

A 12-year-old girl is the youngest mother in Cebu, the Commission on Population in Central Visayas (PopCom-7)  revealed. Popcom-7 Director Bruce Ragas said the 12-year-old girl gave birth last year in a hospital in Bogo City, northern…

Survey shows 1 in 3 Filipino youth had sex outside marriage

08/31/2014

Thirty two percent of young Filipinos aged 15-24 had engaged in sex before marriage, up from 23 percent reported a decade ago. This finding came from the 2013 Young Adult Fertility Study (YAFS 4). The new survey…

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