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2020’s calamitous start

February 1, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Marlen V. Ronquillo| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:09:05 +0000

Porcine diseases in the Philippines, even the lethal ones, usually have brief, rampaging spans. A veteran hog raiser, battle-scarred by his countless efforts to counter farm site infestations of transmissible gastroenteritis, porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome and the like, said major swine outbreaks are usually over in three months, max. The usual casualty count is one fourth […]

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‘This child is destined for the rise and fall of many’

February 1, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Ricardo Saludo| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:06:21 +0000

Behold, this child is destined for the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted — and you yourself a sword will pierce — so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. — The prophet Simeon to Mary, Luke 2:33-35 Why is God allowing calamities […]

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The Nazi death camps where millions were murdered

February 1, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Fr. Shay Cullen, SSC| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:02:44 +0000

The memory of the horrific genocide that killed 6 million Jews and a million other innocent people by the Nazi regime will hopefully live forever in the collective memory of the human race. It is the anniversary of the liberation by Russian soldiers of the most notorious Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Jan. […]

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Who grabbed vast portions of the PHHC, NGC lands?

January 25, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One, sunday stories

Credit to Author: Marlen V. Ronquillo| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:02:14 +0000

The old People’s Homesite and Housing Corp. (PHHC), the National Government Center (NGC) and the University of the Philippines (UP) owned at least 2,000 hectares of prime land until the 1960s in what is now the heart of Quezon City. Of that grand total, the old PHHC developed eight housing projects, from Project One to […]

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Protecting children online

January 25, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One, protecting children

Credit to Author: Fr. Shay Cullen, SSC| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:59:23 +0000

There is a powerful force for good or evil that is present everywhere. You can’t see it, you can’t feel or hear it. Yet it is in your home, in the school, the office and almost everywhere. It is the Wi-Fi signal that connects anybody and everybody to the internet and to each other by cell phone […]

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‘Publish or perish’

January 25, 2020 admin non scholae sed vitae, Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: JESUS JAY MIRANDA JR. OP| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:55:39 +0000

In higher education today, the aphorism “publish or perish” exasperates many educators. It sounds fairly like a threat or a callous meter for one’s worth in the academe. It sums up the increasing pressure on both higher learning institutions and its faculty to produce research that is relevant, useful, unique and, at times, profitable, too. […]

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From times past to times present, calamity stories never change

January 18, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Marlen V. Ronquillo| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:19:43 +0000

Some stories never change. For example, the stories of June 16, 1991 and the stories of Jan. 12, 2020. The second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, the Mount Pinatubo eruption, was on Jan. 15, 1991. In terms of the volume of volcanic mineral and toxic metals unleashed, it was the century’s largest. No volcanic eruption has sent that massive volume […]

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‘Let my salvation reach to the ends of the earth’

January 18, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Ricardo Saludo| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:16:22 +0000

It is too little, the Lord says, for your to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. – The Book of Isaiah, 49:6 It started with […]

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The dark side of the internet

January 18, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Fr. Shay Cullen, SSC| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:12:38 +0000

It was a hot-blooded crime last December 2019, done with a terrorist and jihadist motivation of anger and hatred, that caused the violent deaths of three United States sailors who were shot dead at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. The killer was Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old member of the Royal Saudi Air Force who was training […]

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Push PH cinema to greater heights

January 2, 2020 admin Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Mauro Gia Samonte| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:13:02 +0000

FEW people realize it but when Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go proposed one more Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) outside of the one that has been held over the past more than four decades every yuletide season, he was actually giving the local film industry a most vital shot in the arm. I don’t know […]