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Alicia dela Rosa-Bala (Screenshot courtesy of CSC-Region 5) MANILA - Alicia dela Rosa-Bala will end her fixed term Wednesday as head of the Civil Service Commission (CSC), the central human resource (HR) agency of the Philippine government. Bala was appointed by the late president Benigno Aquino III in October 2015, with expertise and years of experience in social work. She introduced policies and programs that empowered and uplifted civil servants, promoted social change and development, and spread bringing malasakit (concern) to public sector HR management. Under her helm, the CSC promulgate...

The paper says religion or culture should not solely be blamed for child marriage.

Norton-Staal said the ‘Our Lives Online’ study conducted in Malaysia, involving 127 children also revealed that two in five children reported having bad experiences online they would not want to tell anyone. — 123rf KUALA LUMPUR: More than half of the participants, aged under 18 in a UN Children's Fund (Unicef) study, said they had met strangers in real life they initially met online. Unicef Malaysia Head of Child Protection Sarah Norton-Staal said the ‘Our Lives Online’ study conducted in Malaysia, involving 127 children also revealed that two in five children reported having bad e...

Overcoming the ‘infodemic’ in Asean Lydia Ruddy SPREADING at least as quickly as the Covid-19 virus, an “infodemic” has infected large swaths of media and information exchange across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Massive amounts of information, including rumors, mis-information and dis-information have reached millions of people who are hoping to understand how to stay safe until the pandemic has been controlled. High levels of uncertainty are driving people to look for any information about the virus and what to do about it. Fake news has ranged ...

It is imperative that Malaysia provides leadership and a good example as a nation that walks the talk.