U.S. population was approximately $102 billion; the projected cost for the 2000 fiscal year (FY) was estimated to be $160.7 billion. In the same report, ONDCP restructured its budget to reflect new methods for reporting drug abuse. The requested drug control budget for FY 2004 was $11.7 ...
Anti-dumping measures are governed by the Anti-Dumping Act of 1999, patterned after pertinent rules on anti-dumping in the World Trade Organization, wherein the Philippines is a founding member. Hurt by import surge, farmers seek anti-dumping duties Local steel manufacturers have been calling on...
I’ve written before on the story of how a Vancouver public company’s main source of revenues was supplying the precursor drug which allowed Mexican drug cartels to cook crystal meth in underground factories in California, which started the crystal meth epidemic across the United States, and cau...
An example of the effects of these challenges is the recent suspension of the DENV vaccine Dengvaxia in Philippines, which was developed by Sanofi Pasteur, after its brief clinical use because of potentially deadly side effects5,6. Significant outbreaks of yellow fever virus (YFV) in Africa and...
create or spread “fake news” with jail terms of up to six years and fines up to about $123,000, seems to be giving the government more authority and discretion to stamp out unflattering news. Other Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore and the Philippines are considering similar ...
There have been others in the Philippines, Madagascar, China and Indonesia. All were eventually eliminated by immunizing more children, and experts argue that the latest outbreak was able to spread because, until recently, only 30 to 40 percent of the children in northern Nigeria were ...
This is encouraging, and no doubt social media platforms can be useful in the fight against corruption. Nonetheless, I’m cautious about overstating the long-term impact that social media might have on corruption in the Philippines. After all, the Philippines has had an active free press for ...