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[ANALYSIS] Releasing names of SAC beneficiaries can bolster accountability
A crisis situation can worsen government’s inefficiency and abuse of power. This, in turn, makes it harder for societies to respond and recover from disaster in a way that takes care of the victims and...
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[OPINION] The green-red light: Changing the last 50 years of eco-imperialism
It’s been a dark 40+ days since the Philippine government imposed a quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. No government in the world was prepared for it, but we have seen a few that rose to...
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[Dash of SAS] The questions to ask in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine
A few days ago, President Rodrigo Duterte announced a P10 million reward for any Filipino who could discover a vaccine for COVID-19. Today, he raised the reward to P50 million. While well-intentioned,...
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[EXPLAINER] State auditors have bad news for COVID-19 ‘epal’
The novel coronavirus has so far infected more than 7,000 people and taken 477 lives in the Philippines as of April 24, and forced most of the nation to a lockdown for more than a month now. As we get...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Things cannot be better...
If there’s one picture that defines these times for me it is that of a man, well past middle age – or probably only prematurely aged by privation – moaning his fate. He came on television as an...
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[ANALYSIS] COVID-19 exposes dangers of wildlife trade, fragility of global...
The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story.Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and...
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[OPINION] Extraordinary occupational hazards: PH migrants during the pandemic
The events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic prompt us to think about the repercussions of these times on the Philippines, which has 10 million members of its population living and working beyond its...
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[OPINION] Filipino family dynamics in times of crisis
Weeks have passed since the enhanced community quarantine began in response to COVID-19. Situations unfolded rapidly, as the number of people directly affected by the virus escalated. While COVID-19 is...
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[ANALYSIS] How cybercriminals are causing digital pandemic
Forbes magazine estimates that if cybercrime were an industry, it would be worth $2.1 trillion in 2019, equivalent to its damage in terms of business disruption, information loss, equipment damage,...
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[EDITORIAL] Tigilan ang giyera laban sa mga pasaway, virus ang kaaway
Subukan mong sumilip sa mga kalye at lansangan. Mukha ba tayong bansa ng mga pasaway? Sa katunayan, nag-uumapaw ang ebidensyang sumusunod ang 99% ng mga Pilipino sa lockdown na ipinapatupad ng...
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[FIRST PERSON] A day in the life of NKTI's frontliners
Every day, since COVID-19 became a full-blown pandemic, our medical frontliners choose to confront an invisible and treacherous enemy despite the danger to their lives.Given a rare opportunity to...
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[OPINION] Mass promote now: No student should be left behind
We students, in the face of this outbreak and lockdown, are left with no other alternative but to shift to online classes, where we have to deal with academic loads that are excessive, meet deadlines...
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[ANALYSIS] Test, Trace, Treat (not Build, Build, Build)
Our economic managers have their priorities wrong.In a meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte on April 23, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III insisted that government – right smack in the middle of...
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[OPINION] What I learned from Anakpawis
I am Rae, a member of Rural Women Advocates (RUWA), Amihan Women's pool of volunteers. We push for a genuine agrarian reform and fight against the exploitation and discrimination of peasant women. I...
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[OPINION] An intergovernmental tug of war during the coronavirus outbreak
All eyes are on local governments. Last April 17, 2020, one month since a public health emergency was declared, the Inter-Agency Task Force adopted the policy of a “national government-enabled, local...
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[OPINION] Balik-probinsya, balik-Maynila: Coronavirus and decongesting the city
COVID-19 has suddenly forced the authorities to take seriously the massive numbers and densities of Metro Manila’s informal settlements. At a recent Cabinet meeting chaired by the President, a move to...
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[OPINION] The coronavirus: We need more than a reset button
Our economic model is cracking under the weight of so many wrongs. It has been more than a month since the Philippine government implemented an enhanced community quarantine in the National Capital...
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[ANALYSIS] The situation in Barangay 178, Camarin during the coronavirus crisis
The following is Part 1 in a two-part series on the state of a community in Camarin, Caloocan City during the coronavirus crisis.You can read Part 2 here.“I am a pakialamera,” says Ate Malou, a senior...
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[ANALYSIS] How to support microenterprises, informal sector hit by coronavirus
Since the enhanced community quarantine was imposed in Metro Manila on March 15, Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Incorporated (SEDPI) has conducted weekly rapid community assessment...
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