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Dolly, Chai, and racial profiling in the global film industry
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL
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Happy Chinese New Year! May all go well with you
Today is Chinese New Year, also called Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. It is the most important festival in China. Reports say tens of millions of people in China headed to their rural hometowns starting Friday to keep the tradition of celebrating the start of the new year with their families.
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Nutrition security: A healthy nation leads to stability and prosperity
What makes a healthy nation? It is not enough that citizens are able to consume three meals a day, but they also have access to meals that are nutritious, utilizing ingredients grown by local farmers and sold at fair prices. A healthy nation is also one that is able to achieve nutrition security — ensuring that at any time of the year, whatever the world may experience at that moment, or whatever business climate the economy is currently in, there is food at the table for all the 113 million plus population of the Philippines.
Ever since the new administration started, the President has always bannered food security as a priority. He has said, on numerous occasions and important speeches, that his vision at the end of his term is a “Philippines where not one Filipino is hungry.” In fact, that was the impetus that encouraged him to head the Agriculture Department.