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FORMER senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. was the guest last week in our weekly News And Nuances Kapihan at Almusalan (NANKA) media forum. One of the questions that I asked him was about the extremely urgent motion to inhibit that he personally filed early this month before the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral […]

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First of 2 parts A diplomat is a multi-headed genius beast – a man who can handle political and economic analysis, turn his hand to information or aid work, and yet still knows how to get someone out of jail or send a body home. –Erik Clarke, Corps Diplomatique I DREAMT of a diplomatic posting […]

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I WROTE two open letters — one for the education secretary and another one for the justice secretary — in my column last week. The letter to the justice secretary pertains to the public prosecutor who had an altercation with the traffic enforcers. Caught on video, the incident went viral in social media. This prompted […]

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IN mid-July, China’s state drug administration ordered Changsheng Bio-technology, a company headquartered in Changchun, in northeastern China, to stop production of rabies vaccines after it uncovered evidence of forged data. At about the same time, the company was fined 3.4 million yuan ($502,000) for the production of inferior DPT vaccines last year. As soon as […]

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MARIA Ressa, founder of the online news organization Rappler, clinched the first interview with Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, before he was elected to the presidency in 2016. It was a crucial moment during the campaign. The man from Mindanao was late in formally declaring his candidacy and was only just beginning to be seen […]

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THE Chinese government closed thousands of polluting factories and shut down coal-fired power plants late last year in order to meet the targets of its 2013-2017 Air Pollution Action Plan. The action plan was hatched in 2013 when China faced its worst air pollution ever. Consequently, thousands of government officials who failed to enforce environmental […]

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HOW do you ignite the rocket booster for the Southeast Asian region to fulfill international financial institutions’ predictions that it will be the world’s fastest growing area in the next 25 years? At this point, and global economic competition among sovereign nations led by the superpowers, the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian […]

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CODRINGTON, Antigua and Barbuda: Steel drums carry a jubilant rendition of “Guantanamera” over the ruins of Barbuda’s capital Codrington, as dignitaries and residents mark the latest bit of progress in the island’s grueling struggle to recover from Hurricane Irma. The event celebrated a Chinese-funded program to replace roofs ripped from more than 300 homes by […]

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Today is Sunday and biblical thoughts of this day (being a day of rest) suggest that I should realign the topics that I want to touch in my article. My start up is about the universal language that we understand: Music. I believe that we Filipinos, including myself, are blessed to be born with music […]

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Let us look at ourselves as human beings with dignity, values, and inalienable human rights. We are persons, not animals that see enemies and rivals all around them in the wild and fight and kill for food and survival. Most humans live by a higher standard and coexist in peace—but not all. Because we are […]

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