“Stash that photo quick before the website is pulled down.” What photo? The “Massacre of the Birds,” answers Wild Bird Club of the Philippines’ Michael Lu.
Environment and Natural Resurces Secretary Lito Atienza spiked an order that stretched for six years a permit allowing Basey Wood Industries to log, yet again, in a 57,525-hectare concession in ecologically brittle Samar Island.
“While coasting on tourist visas, some seek foreigners to marry, preferably of similar national ancestry, so they can stay for good. Migrant money buoys the economy back home. Migrant departures split parents from children.
“Whoever learns to use a letter brush will never need to beg,” Chinese sages taught. But today, returns from schooling are shrinking in the Philippines, India, Indonesia and Thailand, according to the Asian Development Bank.
JUAN L. MERCADO - Election Day is two months away, but people already have it up to here with “dirt fatigue.” Every day, shadowy overpaid spinmeisters barge, uninvited, into our homes through shrill press statements, smear jingles and idiotic ads.
JUAN L. MERCADO - ARE we slowly becoming a nation of Khmer Rouge-style killing fields, with mass unmarked graves similar to those that studded Augusto Pinochet's Chile?
THAT’S THE title of a report on an irreplaceable resource: water. We’re “stretching our supplies to the breaking point,” the report, which was prepared by the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, warns.
