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Remembering Flor

Remembering Flor

On March 17, 1995, Filipina Flor Contemplacion, was hanged in Singapore after a court convicted her of murdering another domestic helper, Delia Maga and Nicholas Huang, the 3-year-old Singaporean son of her employer on May 4, 1991.

 

 

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New York Times report on Luisita spurs reactions

New York Times report on Luisita spurs reactions A recent New York Times report on Hacienda Luisita spurred reactions from various groups. read more...
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Much ado about the Multi-ID System

Much ado about the Multi-ID System

Starting this month, various government offices will implement the Unified Multi-Purpose ID System (UMID), the new identification system that will facilitate public transactions with government agencies.

Private sector employees’ pension fund agency Social Security System (SSS) , state-run Government Se...

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Brownouts: State of peril for May polls

Brownouts: State of peril for May polls

To supposedly help solve the worsening power situation in Mindanao, President Gloria Arroyo declared the entire Mindanao area under a state of calamity. Since then, rotating brownouts continue to hit many parts of the country, further making the public nervous about a looming state of peril for the Ma...

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Global auto recalls: highlighting crisis of overproduction

Global auto recalls: highlighting crisis of overproduction

The world's biggest automaker is going through a global shaming and bleeding over millions of dollars lost each day in sales after a recall covering more than 8 million cars and trucks globally.

 

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(A)H1N1 Pandemic

Influenza A (H1N1) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus which mutated out of four different strains of the influenza A virus found in pigs, human and birds. The outbreak began in Mexico in April 2009, spreading across the Americas and Asia in a matter of months. Due to its unprecedented spread across the globe, the H1N1 outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in June 2009. Although most who contract the disease recover immediately, doctors have warned that the virus strain may still evolve into a more virulent form, causing wide-scale fatalities as in the case of the Spanish flu in 1918, or the Hong Kong flu in 1968. The first case of H1N1 in the Philippines was on May 18, 2009. By June, the country reported its first H1N1 fatality. Despite efforts by the Department of Health to slow the spread of the disease, the infected in the Philippines now number in the thousands. Although most recover without complications, the DOH has projected that up to a quarter of the country's 90 million people might become infected. Read more at WikiPilipinas

 

Brillante Mendoza

Best director awardee in Cannes 2009