Currently the 12th most populated country in the world with a population expected to reach more than 100 million in 2014, the Philippines has been regarded by the international community as Asia’s next economic miracle. IMF ranks the country’s economy as the 40th largest and is now heralded as among the emerging markets on the planet. But that’s not how it feels like for majority of the Filipino people — more than a quarter of whom, or over 27 million, live below the povert

Just a woman; the weaker sex. These are probably among the most ancient myths ever told about women — myths that have long been busted. They're nothing more than just urban legends that falsely and unfairly portrayed Grandma, Mom, Aunt, Sis, Niece and Daughter. History backs me up when I say women are not "just women" and they’re definitely not the weaker sex. There are as many powerful and influential women in world history as there are men: Hatshepsut, the Warrior Queen of