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Tragedies come like clockwork EDITORIAL 12/28/2009

Monday, December 28, 2009


Tragedies come like clockwork


EDITORIAL

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12/28/2009

Sea disasters have become a sickening ritual everytime the holiday season comes around in the country.

Last Christmas eve, a passenger vessel Catalyn-B collided with a fishing vessel off Limbones Island in Cavite, killing three and 24 remaining missing.

Just yesterday, inter-island ferry M/V Baleno 9 sank.... MORE


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Time to be scratched out FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 12/28/2009


Time to be scratched out


FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares
12/28/2009

Only about a hundred party-list choices will make it to the official list in the 2010 polls, so said a Commission on Elections

(Comelec) commissioner. Some 300 party-list groups had apparently petitioned for accreditation. But only a third will be approved by the Comelec.

No doubt, the reason for limiting the number of party-list groups by the Comelec is due to the ballot size requirements of the automated poll machines, the reason that many presidential, vice presidential, senatorial and congressional candidates have been disqualified by the poll body. .... MORE


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2009’s top 10 stories ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/28/2009


2009’s top 10 stories


ZOOMING IN

Rudy Romero
12/28/2009

Once again the time has come to look back and pick out the 10 events here and abroad that had the greatest significance for this country’s stability and growth in the year that is about to end.

Without a doubt the event — more precisely, the series of events — that had the greatest impact on this country’s stability and growth in 2009 was the campaign to bring about amendments to the Constitution. Clearly directed and financed by Malacañang .... MORE


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F-I-D-E-L bombings: Nine years later DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 12/28/2009

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Afghan war museum displays past’s horror FEATURE 12/28/2009


Afghan war museum displays past’s horror


FEATURE


12/28/2009
FAIZABAD — Afghan human rights activists have opened the country’s first war crimes museum on the site of a mass grave, taking a first step towards national reconciliation for victims of atrocities.

At the foot of the snow-capped Hindu Kush .... MORE


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