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Friday, July 04, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Direct Mainland-Taiwan
flights good for RP too
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Today a momentous event happens between the China Mainland’s
People’s Republic of China or PRC and its province of Taiwan
(which goes under the formal name of the Republic of China or ROC).
Regular flights between the two are restored after 59 years.
Apart from special holidays when, during times
of goodwill on the part of the People’s Republic, special flights
from the mainland to Taiwan and back were allowed, direct flights to
and from the mainland and Taiwan were suspended in 1949. That was
the year when the Chinese Nationalist Party (the Kuomintang), which
had ruled China until then, and the officials of the Republic of
China fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war to the Communists.
Revered also in the mainland, the father of modern China, Sun Yat
Sen, founded and was the first president of ROC.
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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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‘Do they intend to
level Mount Guiting-Guiting?’
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Regular readers of this and other newspapers are by now familiar
with pictures of the MV Princess of the Stars, lying capsized in the
Sibuyan Sea less than a kilometer from the shore of the municipality
of San Fernando, Romblon.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Watch that smell
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We easily react to the sound of gunfire: we drop to the ground. When
somebody in a crowded cinema shouts, “fire,” almost by instinct,
everybody rushes to the exits. Now the question: How do you react to
a stench attack?
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Remedy for corruption
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Dr. Jose Maria P. Alcasid, “to offer another perspective,” in
response to my column of July 2, “Mystery of RP government
corruption,” sent me an article by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
(author of the book Revolution and Counter Revolution). The article
is about Italy and Europe of a decade ago. For lack of space, I had
to abridge Oliveira’s article.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Learning from Wangari
Maathai
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Seeing the unprecedented mud invasion of Aklan unleashed by Typhoon
Frank on television speaks to me as the effect of deforestation
rather than record-breaking rainfall as the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources wants us to believe.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine Louise Viernes
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Your Horrorscope for
Today
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It would not be fair to blame everything that happens in our country
to the government. After all, we all have a responsibility in
everything that we do! Maybe it’s time to blame it on the stars .
. .
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Reflecting on US-RP
relations
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Like many people of my generation, I grew up with a strong
familiarity with US socio-historical trivia. My elementary years
were partly spent, and my capacity for rote learning expended and
strongly focused, on US history and government.
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