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[OPINION] Unsolicited advice for the IATF chair on the social amelioration fund
Sir:The past few days, after the process of distribution of the social amelioration fund (SAF) was disseminated to the LGUs and the public, a couple of issues were raised by mayors and barangay...
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[OPINION] The coronavirus pandemic bares older Filipinos' vulnerability
“Kung makuha ko ang virus, at walang pang-pagamot ang pamilya ko, eh 'di patay ako,” shared an 81-year-old hypertensive woman I recently met at the market. Despite being identified as the most...
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[REFLECTIONS] Holy Week and COVID-19: Embracing uncertainty
It's a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[ANALYSIS] A deeper look into Duterte’s finances to fight the coronavirus
As the scourge of COVID-19 rages on, our government finds itself cash-strapped. President Rodrigo Duterte himself said so.On March 30 he confidently declared – in one of his late night TV addresses –...
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[OPINION] When schools go agile
Part 1: Online learning constraintsI stand corrected. The sudden shift to online learning imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak has not been easy for both students and teachers. In the early weeks of the...
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[OPINION] Going viral: It doesn't matter if nobody believes China
The following essay was first published in The Strategic and Warfare Studies Initiative's official site. The world will never be the same after COVID-19, not because people sheltered in place and...
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[OPINION] This is not a war: A conflict journalist on the coronavirus
I have been working for years as a journalist in conflict zones, in the Middle East and North Africa. And for years, I have been following the destiny of millions of people migrating along dangerous...
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[REFLECTIONS] We need to think and re-think our theology
It’s a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader,...
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[REFLECTIONS] Why do we suffer?
It's a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[OPINYON] Tuloy pa rin ang Mahal na Araw
Tuloy ang Mahal na Araw. Ang hindi lang tuloy ay ang nakagawian nating pagdadahan-dahan sa trabaho tuwing sasapit ang panahong ito. Dahil kulang isang buwan na tayong nagdadahan-dahan, o may ibang...
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[OPINION] Dear Manila, lessons on the coronavirus from New York City
It’s 5 pm and I hear another ambulance siren outside my window. There have been so many since I woke up at 4 am that I’ve lost count. New York City is in a crisis, but you can’t tell at first glance....
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[OPINION] Police discretion is advised
When your country is run by a man who shows little concern for the traditions and rule of law, whose every other statement is either an ambiguity or a joke, here’s the thing: the police can refuse to...
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[OPINION] Acting local against COVID-19
Covid-19 casts a fresh light on the merits of unitary and federal governance systems. In the federalized United States, party affiliations tend to shape the orientation towards national or state power....
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[OPINION] We need servant leaders during this time
Our lives have been turned upside down by a quarantine that has extended throughout much of the globe. It has been stopped in its tracks by a pandemic of unprecedented proportions. In its wake,...
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[REFLECTIONS] Do it best by doing nothing
It's a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[REFLECTIONS] A lot of good will come out of this period
It's a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[REFLECTIONS] Panlaban sa virus
It’s a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader,...
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[REFLECTIONS] The good about Good Friday
What is good about Good Friday? As of today there are already around 1,500,000 cases of COVID-19 infection worldwide. More than 88,000 have already died. And the numbers are still increasing! We really...
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[OPINION] A plea to the DOH for urgency and transparency
I am not an epidemiologist by any stretch, though my degree was in a field of public health. But I study how agencies act and communicate during extreme events, like the one we are in now. Agencies are...
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[ANALYSIS] Incineration of coronavirus wastes will worsen the situation
A recent memo by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) violates the law, undercuts safer and cheaper options, and poses a threat to...
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