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Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Taiwan at last can enter WHO governing body
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Something that this paper has long campaigned for is being
granted—at last—to Taiwan: Observer status at the World Health
Assembly (WHA), which is the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
supreme governing body. WHA’s 192 member countries meet once a
year to agree on policies and appoint the WHO’s director general.
Taiwan/ROC’s President Ma Ying-jeou welcomed
the news. “This certainly is due to our steps to improve the
cross-Strait ties and the diplomatic truce since last year,” he
said.
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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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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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Who will GMA anoint as her presidential
bet?
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With the May 2010 national election barely 12 months away, President
Gloria Arroyo and her closest political advisers must be seriously
mulling by now whom to anoint as the administration’s presidential
candidate.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.
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Networks, power failures and epidemics
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On Saturday, a power failure struck a large portion of the Visayas
region and left the major islands without power for the afternoon.
Power was slowly restored completely only later that night. The
trip-off occurred shortly before...
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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When farmers help
themselves
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Agriculture accounts for 20 percent, or one-fifth of the gross
national product. It also supplies the major source of raw materials
on which the entire economy depends and is critical to food
security.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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An interesting take on Philippine-British relations
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WHEN introducing the Philippine Foreign secretary at the garden
reception (yes, people, the rains that had been pelting down every
evening for the entire week laid off for the Brits!) that he hosted
to mark the 83rd birthday of Queen...
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FEATURE
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Vietnam youth look to future, not past, on war anniversary
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HO CHI MINH CITY: In the peaceful shade of a park across from
Vietnam’s Reunification Palace, young lovers enjoy a quiet time
alone and students study.
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FEATURE
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Myanmar’s cyclone baby living in squalor
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LABUTTA, Myanmar: When That Pyin celebrates her first birthday the
day after the anniversary of Cyclone Nargis, her father won’t be
there—he was one of the 138,000 people left dead or missing by the
storm.
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