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Sunday, February 01, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Pulling the welcome mat |
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It’s not the global economic crisis alone that is pulling the
welcome rug from migrant workers. Long before the disastrous
downturn, individual countries and regional groups have started
sending signals that it was time to put up barriers on imported
labor.
Some nations call it hospitality fatigue. Rising
domestic unemployment is a factor. Invoking the public interest,
labor-importing countries have expressed fears about the erosion of
their national culture. Worries about the influence of “yayas”
on children are abundant. National security and public order come
into play. Illegal immigration has added anxieties in the host
states.
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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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CENTER
OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Obama’s science
agenda
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Of the themes that President Barack Obama developed during the
campaign, the most extensive and specific are on science and
technology.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Contractors in
Congress
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Investigative journalists—always late in spotting the underbellies
of Philippine politics—have failed to write about an emerging
class of politicians: the politicians-contractors. They are in
Congress and their number rises after every election.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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International justice
at the ICC for abuse victims
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Something very historical, new and encouraging is happening at the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, at the
opening of the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo in January 2009.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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The National Ulama
Conference
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ON January, 185 ulama and aleemat (Muslim scholars trained in Islam
and Islamic law who are the interpreters of Islam’s sciences,
doctrines and laws) participated in their historic first national
summit and resolved that there should be a national network of ulama
and ulama organizations.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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A philosophy of truth
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WHAT is truth? Like Pontius Pilate we tend to dismiss this as a
non-question. But some contemporary thinkers, the post-modernist, in
the face of the varied ways by which truth is communicated in a
shifting environment, assert that truth is unknowable.
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COMMENTARY
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China’s new propaganda machine
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China is about to embark on a multibillion-dollar media expansion
overseas, including the establishment of a 24-hour English language
all-news channel modeled after CNN.
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LETTER
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Drugs Board job (ret) general Jovito Palparan
[These letters react to our editorial “Sic
Palparan on drug lords and narco-politicians” published on January
25.]
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