GMA
visits Filipinos in Japan
Despite
the wintry cold, Filipinos around Japan gathered in
Tokyo to hear President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo deliver
a speech at the Takenawa Prince Hotel in Shinagawa.
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Filipinos celebrate a bloody
New Year
by Vic Ferrer
 At
least 35 people died and 590 others suffered injuries
as Filipinos went into a frenzy of celebration in observance
of the New Year. The deaths and injuries were caused
mostly by firecracker blasts, stray bullets, drunken
brawls, and fires.
The total number of injuries, according
to the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Department
of Health (DOH), represents an 11 percent increase from
that of last year. There were 531 injuries the previous
year. DOH Secretary Manuel Dayrit attributes the rise
to the delayed airing of his department’s Iwas
Paputok campaign on television owing to the difficulty
in raising the money to pay for it. Read
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Irrigation
project brings fragile peace
by Ron
Arriola
To
say that the trouble in Southern Philippines arises
from Christian-Muslim enmity is to oversimplify a complex
problem if not to miss the point entirely.
In Central Mindanao, the P3.18 billion
Malitubog-Maridagao Irrigation Project suffers costly
delays due to breakdown of peace and order, but religion
has nothing to do with it. Read
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