Editorial
Human remains
Early this month, the Commission on Human Rights found what it believes to be a mass grave in Barangay Ma-a in Davao City, tucked behind a firing range owned by an ex-policeman.
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Drowning in fear
When Filipino-American Melissa Roxas faced the media in Los Angeles, California, last month to detail the story of her abduction and torture allegedly at the hands of the Philippine military, she explained why she chose to relive the horrifying experience in order to speak out.
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Editorial
Smash the syndicates
THE ABDUCTION, drugging and rape of the minor daughter of a government agent involved in fighting drug syndicates last week underscores the seriousness of the country?s drug problem. Now, no official, agent or any of their relatives is safe from the retaliatory attacks of the drug syndicates.
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Spare the trees
ANOTHER shocking piece of news Monday was the report that more than 1,200 trees on MacArthur Highway will be cut so that it could be expanded from Apalit, Pampanga, all the way to San Fernando.
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Transparent as water
THE controversy over the proposed billion-peso Laiban dam project in Tanay could have been avoided if the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System had been as transparent as water.
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Like foreign bases
UNDER our laws, foreigners or non-Philippine nationals may purchase condominiums, buildings, and enter into long-term land leases. Prior to 1935, foreigners could own land. Before World War II, Japanese land leases in Davao became a hot political issue and led to the passage of the Immigration Act, still in force today
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Editorial
Unsatisfactory
If President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has any respect at all for how her fellow Filipinos think, she would be shrinking in shame instead of maneuvering to stay in office.
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The bitter pill
The country?s pharmaceutical companies have until Saturday to propose a plan for voluntarily reducing medicine prices substantially, before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signs an executive order imposing a maximum retail price, or MRP, on 22 ?essential medicines.? That, at least, is the idea.
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