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SSS Death Benefits: How Much Can Beneficiaries Get and How to Apply

SSS death benefits consist of a certain amount of money paid to the beneficiary of a recently deceased SSS member. Claims for death benefits...

7 Filipino Questions You’re Too Shy To Ask

Filipinos may be the subject of a variety of misconceptions. Unless someone clears the air, the lack of awareness about the culture or the...

Free Medicines for Hypertension and Diabetes Patients in the Philippines

The Department of Health (DOH) spearheads the establishment of the DOH Hypertension and Diabetes Club. This will be launched nationwide to enhance the initiatives in addressing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) and will serve as a support group in communities to disseminate information and ensure that appropriate management is provided to all patients. NCDs like cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, lung disease, and cancer...

How Filipinos Abroad Can Dissolve Marriage with Spouses in the Philippines

Divorce is illegal in the Philippines though there are a few loopholes around this. Lawyer Joseph Inocencio from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)...

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Filipino films, like every other national cinema, have a distinct identity shaped by their own culture, history, and social environment. Although it gives us pride...

The Orphans We Left Behind

In July 2011, when I got home from Libya after a long, arduous journey due to the war, I visited my son's school. His Grade...

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Expert Tells OFWs: Bringing Kids Abroad Not Always Good Idea

Bringing children to another country to be with their parents who are based there may have their own share of adverse effects, an expert on mental health said Wednesday. Speaking at a forum which tacles the impact of migrant labor to Filipino children, Dr. Kathryn Tan, assistant chief of the acute female division of the National Center for Mental Health,...

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