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Friday, May 04, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Human organ trade |
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It was the 2001 testimony of a Chinese physician, Dr.
Wang Guoqi, who convinced many outside China that something ghoulish
was taking place in the People’s Republic.
Before Dr. Wang spoke to human
rights groups, earlier allegations that the organs of executed
Chinese prisoners were being sold to rich foreigners did not get
much attention. Only the habitual anti-Communist commentators and US
congressmen listened. Dr. Wang confirmed many of those allegations,
including the possibility that prisoners were being executed to
order to meet the demand of the rich North American market.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Pray it’s not
too late for Jayjay
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In a recent radio interview
Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. recalled that in 1986, as press
secretary to then-President Corazon Aquino, he was instructed to
offer P10 million to Joe Burgos...
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HEADS UP
By Joel P.
Palacios
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One to sawa
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Paintings, photographs and other
artworks of nude women are not funny. Nudes are never meant to
elicit leers, snickers, and guffaws.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Pangasinan’s
patroness and protectress
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After years of talking about it,
a friend and I are doing a novena to Our Lady of Manaoag, the
miraculous Virgin and Patroness of Pangasinan.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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QC: The next CBD
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Among his many awards of
achievement and distinction, Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte Jr. is
proudest of one—that of being the Most Outstanding City Mayor in
the country....
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The sacred ballot
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Is there such a thing as a sacred
ballot? How can this instrument which is being used in a political
exercise that is held by many to be “dirty” be regarded as
sacred?
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Brits red-faceb
over odl war grave repairs in Hnog Knog
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Red-faced British officials in
Hong Kong were trying to find stonemasons Wednesday after crude
repairs in crumbling colonial-era war graves left the stones with
howling spelling errors.
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South Korea seizes
WWII Japan collaborators’ assets
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Unlike the Philippines, which
amnestied all who were accused of collaboration with the Japanese
Empire in World War II, in South Korea the issue of punishing
Koreans who collaborated with the colonizers in 1910...
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