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Month: October 2006

Why China is on Top

Posted on October 17, 2006

by Milanie Joy Lee A recent poll conducted shows Asians see the United States losing its undisputed superpower status to China. I realized that, as a Tsinoy, it is actually in my…

Overpopulation, as I See It

Posted on October 17, 2006

When I think of the Philippines, I don’t think of Boracay or the famous Imelda shoes. The disturbing thought that the warm and friendly people of the Philippines, suffering from poverty comes…

Probable Disaster

Posted on October 16, 2006

According to the National Statistics Office, the Philippines population reflected a 2.36 percent average annual growth rate and is expected that our population will reach 100 million in 14 years and even…

Unity: Answer of Philippine Overpopulation

Posted on October 16, 2006

by Ralph Jorge B. Pangilinan There have been thousands of claims with reference to overpopulation that have been conveyed already in the past four decades. The entire globe has always been a…

AFP-PNP place Mindanao under highest alert

Posted on October 14, 2006

PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — POLICE and military officials have placed Mindanao under “extreme critical alert”—the highest of a four-step public terror warning system—after three bombings this week left 12 people dead and…

PRC to swear in passers of nurses’ test

Posted on October 14, 2006

PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Philippine Regulation Commission will administer the oath to all nursing graduates who passed the leak-tainted bar exams in June once a temporary restraining order on the agency…

GMA orders dismantling of billboards

Posted on October 14, 2006

PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has signed a new order spelling out the rules and procedures on the dismantling of billboards along major roads. Administrative Order 160-A calls for…

Automated Election Bill gets Senate nod

Posted on October 14, 2006

PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — After almost a year of deliberations, marked with bitter and long debates, the Senate yesterday voted 13-0 and approved the Automated Election Bill, shortly before adjourning for a…

On Human Tragedy: Overpopulation

Posted on October 14, 2006

Let me start by enumerating those resources we enjoy for free – public roads, schools, hospitals and the faura and fauna of our rich environment. Being open for everyone’s consumption, these resources…

Running Out of Time With Overpopulation

Posted on October 14, 2006

As of 2005, the Philippines is home to 85 million Filipinos. Considering the annual population growth rate of 2.3%, the country’s population might reach and even grow above 95 million in as…

Skepticism greets CFO task force

Posted on October 11, 2006

by JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOS www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—ANOTHER task force created by a government agency was met with skepticism by migrants’ rights advocates. Reeling from reports of undocumented workers jumping to their deaths to escape…

Police says going high-tech vs. illegal-recruiters

Posted on October 11, 2006

by WILLIAM IMPERIAL www.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY—POLICE officials in one of the key metropolitan cities said they are going to be aggressive in weeding out illegal recruiters, using surveillance cameras and other advanced…

US labor unions adrift over foreign workers’ activism

Posted on October 11, 2006

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA — JOHN Ford was flipping an egg in his kitchen when union members and immigrant activists in the Bay Area marched down Market Street…

Pinoys ‘in hiding’ abroad a million less after 7 years

Posted on October 11, 2006

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA – ARE more Filipinos here coming out to explore the belly of the beast legally? In view of American officials’ moves to squeeze out…

Voting thru mail likely in 39 more countries by 2007

Posted on October 11, 2006

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA — OVERSEAS Filipinos spread in four continents who have registered for the national elections next year are expected to vote by mail, a Philippine…

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