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RP chess prodigy ?excited? to play highly rated Spaniard
GMANews - Wesley So, the world’s youngest grandmaster, was more than willing to accept the challenge of facing a highly rated opponent.
He initiated it.
When the country found out who its next opponent will be at the resumption of the 38th World Chess Olympiad, the 14-year-old So asked the more senior members of the RP team [...]
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The Motherless Generation
Separation anxiety: For Shyrelyn Diaz, going abroad would mean leaving her son
By KRISTA MAHR / MABINI
It’s almost time for dinner in little Italy. A man walks along the street in shorts, dangling a cigarette from one hand, pushing a stroller with the other. Kids mill around a basketball hoop missing its net. Men chat on [...]
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Villar resigns as Senate prexy; Enrile takes over as new chief
AMITA LEGASPI
MANILA, Philippines - Senator Manuel “Manny” Villar announced his resignation as Senate president on Monday amid rumors that majority of the senators were out to oust him. Earlier in the day, rumors were rife that a petition for Villar’s ouster was circulating.
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“My dear colleagues in this august [...]
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Filipino, Pilipino and Tagalog
By Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco
TAGALOG, PILIPINO AND FILIPINO ARE LABELS by which the national language has come to be known at different periods of our history. In the early 1900s, people of different ethnic origins were communicating with each other with an evolving Manila-based lingua franca. Commerce and trade motivated the need for this common [...]
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Filipino Author Syjuco Wins Man Asian Literary Prize
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — Miguel Syjuco of the Philippines won the second annual Man Asian Literary Prize for “Ilustrado,” a debut novel that begins as a murder mystery and expands into a family saga spanning 150 years of his country’s history.
“This is a life-changing experience for me,” Syjuco said in accepting the $10,000 award [...]
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The Culture of ?Pagtatakip?: Pinoy Politics as Showbiz
Ma. Zenaida B. French
The man is obviously fearing for his life. He is initially shown on TV-Video about to alight from the plane: briskly moving towards the gate, eyes darting, looking about him haughtily, even arrogantly, not at all weak or sickly although his hair is shockingly whiter since his last TV footage of two [...]
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Not Filipinos?
By ECP Mariano - “OH, NOT A FILIPINO anymore,” our Dutch trainer exclaimed when she learned that my Dad had been an expatriate for more than two decades.
Last summer, my Dad moved to another country for work. And in preparation for this, he had to attend a cultural awareness seminar in Amsterdam. Since my [...]
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China?s problems?Philippines opportunities
By Mike Wootton ? When you are the factory of the world, a severe economic downturn among your buyers has a major effect. This is the case with China now, and it is why it has just announced a spending package of over $580 billion. China needs to keep its people occupied because if they [...]
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UnionBank of the Philippines: Making the difference as a Filipino
By Justo A. Ortiz, Chairman & CEO ? We realize that the efficient allocation of resources is what drives economic growth, and economic growth is the sine qua non of improved living standards. As the primary agent for economic growth in market economies, the core responsibility of business to society is to meet market needs [...]
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History lessons for Filipino expatriates
By Random Jottings
WITH Filipino overseas workers easily the nation?s biggest and best export brand, it is important to note that they also serve on the global frontline as the nation?s best ambassadors.
With this foremost in mind?and in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the National Historical Institute?Minor Prints, a subsidiary of [...]
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