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Dengue Remains a National Threat - DoH
Written by Grace Alegre (Bulatlat)   
Thursday, 28 September 2006
The Department of Health warned that dengue remains to be a major threat among Filipinos even as this year’s figures is represent a 21 percent slide in the number of cases compared to last year.  Health Sec. Francisco Duque III said that the mosquito-borne disease is still a problem because the National Capital Region, Region 4A, and the Cordillera region are severely affected.
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Proud to Be Pinoy
Written by Maria Salamat (bulatlat.com)   
Sunday, 17 September 2006

    Notwithstanding the social crisis, Filipinos remain proud of their national identity and have learned not to expect anything from the government.   
    Based on the Social Weather Station’s (SWS) annual yearend recap of findings from all its surveys, “pride in being Filipino is very high and impervious to economic downtrends, political crisis and security concerns.” It appears that most Filipinos do not really identify with their present government leaders and that many of these leaders have actually isolated themselves from most Filipinos.


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Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

  • Remembering Ninoy
    THE PCIJ is making available a collection of interviews with three senators and Filipinos young and old, on their thoughts about the murder 25 years ago of opposition leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. and how it affected them in ways big and small. Among the interviewees are three senators, including Ninoy’s only son and namesake, Benigno [...]
  • A million came for Ninoy as reporters battled with censors
    TODAY the nation marks the 25th death anniversary of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Various civil society groups will also launch a year-long civics education campaign, “I Am Ninoy,” for young Filipinos. The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) hopes to help inform the process with a package of stories and a folio of photographs [...]
  • UP centennial lecture series features Sheila Coronel
    PCIJ co-founder and former executive director Sheila Coronel is the featured lecturer in the University of the Philippines Centennial Lecture Series this Friday, August 22, at 2 p.m. at the UP National Institute of Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED) Auditorium. Coronel’s lecture deals with “Media Power and People Power: Citizens, Journalists and the University in [...]
  • What is the MILF thinking (and feeling)?
    SPORADIC attacks believed to have been conducted by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in several parts of Mindanao yesterday have left scores dead, mostly civilians. The renewed hostilities come in the wake of the aborted signing of the controversial Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) between the MILF and the government which had [...]
  • Poetry (while) in motion
    TILA ahas na nagmula sa himpilang kanyang lungga, ang galamay at palikpik, pawang bakal, tanso, tingga, ang kaliskis, lapitan mo’t mga bukas na bintana! (Like a snake from its lair its claws and fins like metal, bronze and lead approach its scales and they’re windows!) Commuters jammed shoulder to shoulder on Light Rail Transit (LRT) trains [...]

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