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Women lawyers to Liberal Party: Discipline your own ranks
As mothers, lawyers, and advocates for children and women, we are enraged and disgusted with the recent "sexy dance gift" reportedly given by MMDA Chair Francis Tolentino to Laguna representative and...
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Create healthy cities, decolonize urban planning
Last August, I was invited to Manila to speak at the Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health (Forum 2015) and the New Leaders for Health Pre-Forum. This year’s Forum 2015, which is a global...
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My issue with Grace Poe
First, let’s get one thing straight – I don’t have a dog in the fight (in the upcoming Philippine polls). I am merely an observer reacting to Senator Grace Poe and her televised pronouncements on why...
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Is there no way to deal with traffic in Metro Manila?
For several weeks in August, it was extremely tiresome to go for meetings in Quezon City or Pasig from my residence in Makati. Like many folks in Metro Manila, I have had to cope with horrible traffic...
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What they don't tell you when you leave the Philippines
They don't tell you when you leave the homeland what you'll actually miss. You're told what you'll supposedly gain – a better life, more freedom, and the ability to buy nice things. Wide open spaces,...
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My faith helped me get out of depression
“Why are you smiling? What are you listening to?” were my family’s words when they looked at me with curious and concerned eyes, wondering why I was laughing on my own or smiling at nothing. Recently,...
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A disastrous climate deal that will see the planet burn
Like reading the ancient Greek tragedy of Homer, we are at the pages of the Iliad where we can see what hell ahead shall befall Troy. We are now in that exact moment, seeing in the horizon the fires...
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US army sergeant: Two soldiers I served with needlessly died in PH
September ambushes me every year.Life rushes by, and then I realize it’s another September, and another difficult anniversary. I look down at the band on my wrist, the scuffed aluminum band that...
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It's about privilege, not about working or studying hard
Here's a secret: "Working hard" or "studying hard" isn't the solution to poverty or otherwise unfortunate circumstances. It's privilege.Privilege is the stepping stone that got me to where I am today,...
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Listening matters: On not treating the poor as mere 'beneficiaries'
C. is sitting in her house, anemic, tired-looking, and emaciated. Her 3 malnourished children, a 3-year-old song and two-year-old twin daughters, are sleeping, with rashes all over their skin and worms...
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On electing a dictator
The Constitutional Convention elected for the purpose of drafting the 1935 Constitution was overtly partial to the American constitutional structure. Hence, I have always taken issue with their...
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Dear Candidate Leni Robredo
Dear Candidate Leni,I hope you get to re-read Marites Danguilan-Vitug's letter to you in 2012 when you were running for Congress in Naga City. That is the original "Dear Candidate Leni" open letter. I...
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Manny Pacquiao, ayaw…Maneee!!!
Dear Maneee,Na unsa na man ka uy?Hapit ko nahulog sa katre ganingang buntag sa pagdungog nako nga modagan ka kuno pagka- senador. Na hala, pagka-kuyaw ba!Naunsa na man ka uy? Wala ka ma'y nahimo sa sa...
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The Joker that I knew
The news of former Sen. Joker Arroyo’s death last Oct. 5 while on a trip to the US came as a complete shock to everyone. The entire Filipino nation and many others around the globe mourned the loss of...
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#AnimatED: The 2016 election challenge
It’s that time of the year when politicians finally take the plunge and file their certificates of candidacy for elective posts – from president down to municipal councilor. After all the hemming and...
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Waiting for Duterte
Everybody was expectant and was just waiting for Rep. Manny Pacquiao to confirm and announce they are abandoning one ship and jumping into another. After all, they believe the decision they will take...
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What we brought home from #YES4SDG
The Youth Empowerment Summit for the Sustainable Development Goals (#YES4SDG) was held on September 12. I arrived without a clue about what I’d bring home from it. I didn’t come representing any...
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Traffic and inclusive mobility
So, what exactly is “Inclusive Mobility”? The APEC Transport Ministers have taken up “Inclusive Mobility” as a strategy in their second meeting in Cebu recently. Inclusive mobility has suddenly become...
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What's up with the smart-shaming?
"Sige na, matalino ka na." ("Fine, you're the smart one.")Heard this before? It's a common response to an original thought in the middle of a typical conversation. All of a sudden, what was supposed to...
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Why Bongbong Marcos is good for Miriam Santiago
Predictably a lot of people went crazy when Senator Miriam Santiago announced that her running mate is Senator Bongbong Marcos. Social media exploded with people proclaiming their frustration: Why,...
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