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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
IN CENTRAL VISAYAS
41T kids don’t have
access to education
Around 41,000 children in Central Visayas do not have access to education, the database of the Department of Social Welfare and Development 7 showed, a government press release said.
The agency's National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction, conducted on July 2011 using the Proxy Means Test, showed that 41,634 individuals in Central Visayas aged six to 25 years have not completed any grade level.
The biggest chunk of this number at 22,524 is in Cebu, followed by Negros Oriental - 12,392, Bohol - 6,327, and Siquijor - 391.
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Woman first to be charged MANILA – A woman has been indicted for computer fraud in the first such case under the Philippines' controversial cybercrime law, justice department records showed yesterday. Karla Martinez Ignacio could face up to six years in jail if found guilty of transferring thousands of dollars to her bank account using fraudulent computer data. She was indicted by a prosecutor in the city of Las Piñas, outside Manila, and is set to be charged under the Philippines' Cybercrime Prevention Act. |
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DOH notes 393 new MANILA – The Department of Health reported 393 new human immunodeficiency virus cases as of April 2014, a government press release said. This brought to 18,341 the total number of HIV cases from 1984 to 2014, of which 16,661, or 91 percent, were asymptomatic and 1,680 (nine percent) were full-blown AIDS cases. From January to April 2014, there were 44 deaths, seven of those in April alone. |
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