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Archives for Corruption

The Food Crisis: Adding Insult to Injury

The Philippine news media was buzzing with the information that the Philippines ranked fifth in the World Hunger survey. Cameroon topped the survey, Peru was fourth, Mexico was ninth and Russia was tenth. Imagine, 4 out of 10 Filipinos are going hungry and are complaining of not eating three times a day. Simply put, Filipinos [...]

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Quality, Perfection and the Human Life

For the past few weeks, news broke out in the Philippines that some milk sold in Philippine markets were contaminated with melamine. Chinese authorities have been pulling out milk products in China after some babies died from drinking the contaminated milk. Upon hearing this, the Philippine government recalled all products that were imported from China [...]

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Drama, Disbarment and the Millennium Development Goals

The National Committee on the Culture and Arts in the Philippines sponsored the Saulog Theater Fest in the Visayas region using theater as the means to portray the issues related to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and Climate Change. The dramaturgy workshop explored the different techniques in the portrayal and development of dramatic action [...]

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Violence on the Left: Nandigram and the Communists of West Bengal

Dissent Magazine, long a source of leftist rhetoric, does a superb job in calling a spade a spade in Communist-controlled areas in India.
- Rudy Carrera.

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