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Sunday, June 01, 2008 |
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Now the
Philippines, tomorrow the world |
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WESLEY SO made it look so easy. He won the tough
Dubai Open, toppled the top player of Indonesia on his own backyard
and ran away the unofficial national championship against the best
of Philippine chess.
Topping a field that included 29
Grandmasters and a host of super GMs can be a highlight of
anybody’s career. Needing a minimum four games to beat Indonesian
GM Susanto Megaranto in a six-game duel during the JAPFA chess
festival in Indonesia can be the crowning glory of any woodpusher
from Southeast Asia.
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O T H E R F E A T U R E S
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Major
achievements
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2008
l Japfa Chess Festival (Jakarta, Indonesia)—1st
l 10th Dubai Open Chess Championship
“Sheikh Rashid Bin
Hamdan Ak Maktoum Cup” —1st
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Mangroves: A
life-saving shield
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We’ve read it before. The
conversion of mangrove habitat into shrimp farms, tourist resorts,
agricultural and urban land over the past decades, as well as
destruction of coral reefs,...
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PROFILE
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A nurtured
passion for nature
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Some people think volunteering is
a “peace-man”, altruistic, hippy thing. As for Carmela David,
volunteering comes very naturally and finds that volunteering...
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THE FILIPINO CHAMPION
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Virgilio L. Malang
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The “walkabout
innoventor”
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VIRGILIO L. MALANG considered
himself a “walkabout innoventor,” since he was always looking to
improve in existing technologies or invent new ones.
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THE LITERARY LIFE
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The boy who loved
trees
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His potted trees were no more
than a foot high, but they resembled their bigger relatives in the
gardens, parks and forests, from their trunks to their crowns. When
he chose them from the hundreds of saplings in the nursery,
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