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Rotational deployment

How do we deal with maritime issues with China in our Exclusive Economic Zone in the West Philippine Sea? That question has again surfaced after...

The Scarborough Shoal — again

Rather queasy indeed, to have to read again that a regular rotational deployment by a Philippine vessel of fuel to Filipino fishermen and patrol...

Fiscal autonomy for CHR

If there’s an agency that deserves an expanded mandate and hence a bigger budget because of its Constitutional duties, it’s the Commission on Human...

Food security amid El Niño

The country is expected to sizzle in the coming weeks with temperatures rising to as high as 40 degrees Celsius in Metro Manila and...

Fake Pinoys

How do you detect foreign nationals, said to be mostly from China, who were able to obtain Philippine passports through devious means? The Department of...

Feeling for Mindanao

We sympathize with the victims of flooding and landslides in Mindanao, the country’s second largest island, where an ugly swath of death and destruction...

Gov’t should act vs. drought

With the prolonged dry spell caused by the El Niño climate pattern likely to pull down agriculture production this year, the government should act...

The UN’s visiting fireman

Imperious can best describe the UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan, who spent 10 days in the country and straight off recommended the abolition of...

‘Bagong Pilipinas’ campaign

As expected, the Marcos administration’s launch of its Bagong Pilipinas campaign at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila last Sunday was well-attended, with a huge...

Let’s not waste time

Environmental groups have raised the warning against the use of waste-to-energy technology to generate electricity, arguing this offers “false solutions” to waste management, more...

Clean and green communities

How do you make our barangays – the country’s basic political unit—self-reliant communities? For the Department of Interior and Local Government that exercises supervision over...

Need for joint patrols in WPS

We find it reassuring that US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson met recently with Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and officials of the...

Sustainable deployment of OFWs

What exactly does sustainable deployment of our workers overseas mean? It means when we deploy workers in one particular line of work, such as nurses,...

El Niño challenge

The El Niño phenomenon, the climate pattern that refers to the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, is in...
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