By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As we celebrate Christmas, dear readers, let us extend our collective hand of solidarity to the survivors among the thousands of families, mostly the very poor, who have been ravaged by floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm “Sendong,” especially those in Cagayan de…
Day: December 30, 2011
Ring in the old
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the Aquino III administration ignored warnings from the environmental and science communities long before Sendong that a disaster was coming in Mindanao, it wouldn’t be any more unique than past administrations. From 1992 to 2001 some 6,000,000 Filipinos were killed or injured by various disasters, whether…
Skyline ng Metro Manila at aspirasyong “reaching for the stars”
Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com Sa dami ng itinatayong bagong gusali, tila may nabubuong skyline ang Metro Manila. Maganda raw sa feng shui ang skyline dahil tulad ng Great Wall of China, kaya nitong I bloke ang negative energies. At tulad ng photogenic shots ng “great cities,” tulad ng Chicago, New York, Shanghai, Seoul at Tokyo,…