Category: Opinion-Editorial
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Landslides, a new major cause of storm deaths
For years, fatalities in our storms and typhoons were mostly drowning victims, people crushed to death by falling trees, and fishermen and boat passengers carried out to sea. In 2013, super-typhoon Yolanda brought a new threat to life in storm-hit areas – the storm surge, a wall of seawater six to eight feet high surging inland destroying everything in its path, then sweeping
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No longer the ‘world’s policeman’
In an ideal world, there would be no need for a “world policeman” to keep things in order. Nations would concentrate on developing themselves, stay within their borders, and respect the rights of other nations.
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Avoid a repeat of last year’s grievous high prices
This first week of the year, people are wondering what to expect in the matter of fuel prices. Will the pump prices in gasoline stations start rising now as the government starts collecting a new tax increase of P2.24 per liter? Or will the companies defer charging the higher rates until about 15 to 30 days from now, when their old stocks run out?
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Dignity as our national narrative
In my column marking the start of 2018, I spoke of my one wish for the year, and that is for human dignity to be recognized as the defining template for governance.
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Wall issue shuts down most of US federal go
It was in 1987 that United States President Ronald Reagan visited the divided city of Berlin, Germany, at the height of the Cold War and viewed the wall that Communist East Germany had built to keep its people from fleeing to freedom in the West. Speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, Reagan delivered what became his famous call to Soviet Russia’s Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. “Mr. Gorbachev,” he said. “Tear down this wall!”
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