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[OPINION] The price we pay when we neglect our farmers
What extreme circumstance could have possibly compelled a 58-year-old farmer to take his own life?That question has been nagging at me since I learned earlier this week that I will no longer see Mang...
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[EDITORIAL] Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan virus outbreak
Here's the situation: a new strain of the coronavirus has caused an outbreak in the city of Wuhan in central China. It has so far killed 56 people and infected 2,000. While Wuhan and 17 other cities in...
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[OPINION] Duterte is a mass murderer, but I support his terminating the VFA
President Rodrigo Duterte is, in my view, a mass murderer, but I would support his move to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the...
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[ANALYSIS] How do we survive? The rise of data colonialism and digital...
The following is a speech delivered by Yuval Harari at the 2020 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, in its session entitled 'How to Survive the 21st Century.' As we enter the third decade of the 21st...
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[OPINION] A call to fairness: Female care workers are invisible and severely...
Rowena, from Salcedo in the Philippines, is a daycare worker at a local school. After she’s done with her day’s work, she comes home to care for her family. As a housewife, her care work takes a lot of...
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[OPINION] It was more than just a dinner: On Imelda and the CCP
During times of crises, Filipinos never fail to show compassion and solidarity. When the Taal Volcano spewed ash, Filipinos from different walks of life exerted effort to help those affected by the...
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[OPINION] Speaking truth to power: Why the government should listen to...
In an era of misinformation, twisted half-truths, and downright lies, incorporating science into good governance is not just important, it is vital. Science, as an evidence-based discipline, sometimes...
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[OPINION] I won’t wear KNPP clothing’s lewd shirts
Clothes are more than just a cover for our bodies. They are revelations, for they speak even before the wearer speaks, or without the wearer having to speak. They are extensions of man. The clothes...
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[OPINION] Dear white people in the Philippines
Dear white people in the Philippines,Listen, really listen. I write this letter with urgent love – for my country and for you, too. This letter is for you – the white to my brown, the expat to my...
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[OPINION] Dear Duterte Legacy, more roads will not decongest EDSA
For the past several weeks, several government officials have been harping on the supposed achievements of President Rodrigo Duterte. Bannered as the “Duterte Legacy,” the media blitz names policies...
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[ANALYSIS] Marine protected areas are failing: How new tech can help
Scientists in the Philippines may have discovered an answer to one of marine conservation’s biggest questions: how can we design Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that both effectively conserve endangered...
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[ANALYSIS] Marine protected areas are failing: How new tech can help
Scientists in the Philippines may have discovered an answer to one of marine conservation’s biggest questions: how can we design Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that both effectively conserve endangered...
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[ANALYSIS] My takeaway from the bushfires Down Under
As many have commented, it appears that 2020 is fast becoming a year of disasters. Not yet fully into the first month and the world is already touched by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fires,...
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[ANALYSIS] Why did Philippine growth drop to an 8-year low?
Add this to the long string of bad news that greeted us this January.Last week the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released its much-awaited report on the size and growth of the Philippine...
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[OPINION] A victim of a voyeur, and the tragedies of filing a report
“I’m just turning off the alarms, babe,” he assured me when I spotted him holding his phone. I was on top of him, naked. I kept going, but then I heard the beep of a video being recorded. “STOP AND...
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[OPINION] Hate and xenophobia have no place in the coronavirus outbreak
It is not difficult to find hurtful words from different people online who are unable to separate their fears about the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak from their xenophobic and hateful feelings...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Patronage presidency
When, upon his election, Rodrigo Duterte at once praised Hitler and Marcos and mocked God, the Pope, and the Catholic church, notice was served that the nation was in for an abnormal presidency, to...
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[EDITORIAL] Ilagay sa lugar ang pakikipag-kaibigan sa Tsina sa harap ng banta...
Nakakalula ang bilis ng mga pangyayari. Bigla na lang kumalat ang coronavirus na tinatawag ding 2019-nCoV.Lilinawin natin, mayroong outbreak, pero wala pang pandemic ng 2019-nCoV. Gaano ba kahanda ang...
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[OPINION] Filipinos, disease, and fear
If there is one thing that we can be certain of as Filipinos, it’s that we never want to get sick. Getting sick means unpaid days off from work, getting our salaries slashed, or worse, getting sacked....
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[OPINION] The future of women's leadership in the Bangsamoro
“Nothing about us without us” is a well-known anti-oppression slogan which means that policies will neither be effective nor achieve their intended impacts if these do not emanate from the people...
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