PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid Two eminent world leaders, UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay, and MIT professor emeritus and author, Noam Chomsky who keynoted the 28th annual conference of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), highlighted the critical role of...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid A worrisome finding during a recent Pulse Asia survey is that “environmental destruction” ranks only no. 12 among our “most urgent national concerns,” and that it is not even on the list of the seven personal concerns. Yet, the most urgent personal...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid (Part II) Dr. Crispin Maslog and I were fortunate to be invited to join a small global committee that would follow-up recommendations. Several policy conferences were held in the region including need for alternative media ownership systems such as a public...
PAGBABAGO (Part I) Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid Let me share highlights of the recent “conversation” via Zoom on the above topic, where Dr. Crispin Maslog, professor of journalism, author of some 30 or more books on communication and related issues on public affairs, and I were invited to...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid My piece last week focusing on our three women heroes, Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz, Maria Ressa, the first Filipino to win the Nobel Prize, and Vice President Leni Robredo, 1Sambayan choice as its candidate for the May, 2022 presidential election,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The recent conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Hidilyn Diaz’ winning the gold medal during the last Olympiad, triggered a colleague to ask in a Facebook post this question: “What’s in a Filipina woman that propels our country...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid The flurry of activities in preparation for the forthcoming national and local elections may be a welcome distraction to many of us who have been focused on meeting the challenges of COVID-19. In a week or two, we shall see a final listing of candidates, and...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The memory of Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippine’s seventh president whose 112th birth anniversary we commemorated last Tuesday becomes more deeply meaningful today in the light of recent events that had ignited public indignation over perceived blatant...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid Jose “Pepe” V. Abueva, who passed away at 93, 10 days ago, will be remembered as the 16th UP president who introduced socialized tuition, language policy, and restricted campus access for state troops. A Professor Emeritus of Political Science, he was...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The deterioration in the quality of our educational system continues to send out alarm signals to our political leaders, educational planners and Filipino citizens. The list of "to dos" in policies and programs gets longer with new knowledge on needed reforms....
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid The late US President John Kennedy described Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary-General from 1952-1961, as "the greatest statesman of our century." In "Politics and Conscience: Dag Hammarskjold – On the Art of Ethical Leadership," political scientist and...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid We have wondered how this 126-year-old institution (Rizal organized the first cooperative in Dapitan) with its core values of solidarity and caring for others is faring during these pandemic times. My googling which yielded reports from all regions of the...
