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Kazakhstan to world leaders: Unite and end terrorism
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called on world leaders and the United Nations to take concrete measures to put an...
Crimes against journalists
The International Federation of Journalists is to launch a global campaign today, Nov. 2—the UN day of action—to end impunity...
Fighting for what is rightfully ours
My name is Isabel M. Peralta. I am an 11-year-old, Grade 6 student at De La Salle Santiago Zobel School...
The Lumad and grassroots governance
September’s first sunrise was tinged in red. A paramilitary group entered a Manobo community in Han-ayan, Surigao Del Sur, and...
Coal is king–no matter the cost
By Renee Juliene Karunungan There is no point denying it: climate has changed. We experience it in our everyday lives...
Where is the People’s Survival Fund?
By Rodne Rodiño Galicha The most recent domestic climate finance mechanism signed into law by President Benigno S. Aquino III...
Old and new
Someone from Bankers Trust Company sent me the following message in Hong Kong in 1994, when I had been editing...
The irrational tirades against Mrs. Celia Veloso
Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929), a German sociologist, one of the surviving members of the famous Critical Theory of the Frankfurt...
Earth Day amid the scourge of climate change
Today is the celebration of Earth Day, organized through the initiative of Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin in 1970. Since...
Names define who we are
NAMES define who we are. They also describe the persons and things around us. A name is sacred. It conveys...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.