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Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Help for Myanmar
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Myanmar needs massive help—and
Yangon is getting it. From the Philippines—a partner in the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)—a team of doctors
and nurses will soon fly to the former Burma to help ease suffering
and pain.
The destruction wrought by
Cyclone Nargis on Friday is devastating. More than 22,000 killed,
thousands more are homeless, sick and hungry. The death toll is
expected to rise as rescue continues. The missing have to be
accounted for. The need for food, medicine, water, fuel and shelter
is staggering.
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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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The AFP and the
business sector
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Business anywhere in the world is about money. It is
about pesos and centavos, dollars and cents. And businessmen prefer
someone—anyone—who helps them make money...
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Checkmate,
Pacquiao!
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Manny Pacquiao has won two world titles, and he now
wants to make pan-Asian boxing history by going for a third title.
If he succeeds he will be the first Asian to win world titles in
three weight divisions:...
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Why the US will
continue to lead
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The main essays in the current issue of Foreign
Affairs discuss the possible end of America as a world power. In my
April 25 column I dwelt on the essay by Richard Haass, “The Age of
Nonpolarity.”...
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine Louise Viernes
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The greatest freak
show on earth
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I am sure that a lot of our laborers had been so
tired clamoring for the credence of job security and elimination of
contractualization. As oppressive companies thrive,...
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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A garden of
delights
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This summer has brought about satisfactory results in
my garden. After typhoon Milenyo two years ago when a very battered
garden could hardly respond to the summer sun and its heat for
blooming...
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Bridging the gap
between media and development
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Friends have always wondered what impelled me to go
back to media and choose it over development work as my main
profession. After a decade away from media and carving a very
promising career in development,...
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ANALYSIS
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Inflation reverses
price boon for Philippine farmers
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MANILA: Trinidad Domingo has just harvested rice from
her modest farm in the northern Philippines, but with the price of
fertilizer and oil skyrocketing she says she might sit out the next
planting season.
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