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Former Health Secretary Jaime Galvez Tan on Sunday urged the government to heighten efforts to research on alternative treatment for the dengue virus whose recorded victims nationwide, children and adults alike, has been rising and expected to reach 80,000 by the end of this year.

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Tomorrow, I’ll probably just sleepwalk through my day like a zombie. You see, it’s way past midnight yet still, I can’t sleep. I just came from the mini “welcome home” surprise party my high school friend Myra hosted for another high school friend, Edel, who’s back from the US. Truth to tell, I hadn’t been jumping with excitement at the thought of attending the party. A lot of things conspired to make the affair “unappealing:” my mind was a jumble of thoughts, I was bone weary, and was worried about going home late without a sure ride. My reluctance to join the party was reinforced when I learned that some priests would be in attendance. I pictured a night were conversation would be stilted in the presence of the “holies” and where I’d keep to myself in a corner because I’d find it difficult to blend in and jell. Besides, I secretly harbored this thought that priests shouldn’t be too friendly with the laity and instead, should, at all times behave as, well, “priests.” Despite my misgivings, for Myra’s and Edel’s sakes, I forced myself to make the effort. Also, I had given my word to another friend that I’d go and I was bent on keeping my promise. I’m glad I did go. Turns out, the surprise was probably much more for me than it was for Edel. The lessons I learned tonight were unexpectedly mind-freeing.

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BATAS INTERNET TV RESUMES 24/7 BROADCAST: By the grace of God, we are pleased to announce that BATAS INTERNET TV has now resumed broadcasting 24 hours daily, seven days a week, through the Internet website www.batasmedia.com.

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1ST-APLUMA is proud to announce that we now have our very own website where members and other interested parties can communicate with us and get to know more about our advocacy.

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I lost my wedding ring of 44 years last Wednesday, together with a fancy pearl bracelet which took my fancy in one of the downtown stores.

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Let us say that you are the president of GSIS or SSS, two government agencies with a lot of money to invest in a corporation like Philex , say. You are then named a director of this corporation and this is quite all right. Those who hold big chunks of stocks usually get to sit in the board of a company.

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A Commission on Human Rights (CHR) official expects the agency to issue soon an advisory to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) regarding spread of e-mail messages denouncing and humiliating Filipinos for the Aug. 23 Manila hostage crisis’ handling and deadly ending.

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ALAY-LAKAD 2010: DISPLAY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CARING: The annual “Alay-Lakad” affair in the Philippines took an urgent global theme Sunday, September 5, 2010, as Rotary International (RI) District 3810, the lead agency for this year’s version of people walking to raise funds for socio-civic purposes, pushed the idea of caring for, and preserving, the environment among the thousands who “walked for a cause” that day.

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The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said the poverty reduction target under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 is still achievable.

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Over a decade had elapsed from the time the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the government agreed to negotiate for peace. That initiative was initiated and pushed by Libyan strongman Moamar Khadaffy, an influential figure in the Organization of Islamic Nations.

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Now that we are enjoying a flowering of technological development, we need to realize more deeply that the quantum leap in that area calls for a matching quantum leap in our sense of purpose. Otherwise we would get what is tantamount to an overdose.

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HOW PPP GIVES OUT FREE SERVICES: There is a rush of inquiries about “Pinoy Protection Package” or PPP, after we wrote a number of articles about it in this newspaper. So that readers will understand better how PPP works, I am reproducing here a material about it that is being circulated nationwide and in some Asian cities. Read on:

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There is an email commentary now circulating about parallels and contrasts between two events in August five years apart, one in Beijing in 2005, the other in Manila in 2010. Here’s the emailed report:

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It’s easy enough to heap abuse on the President now.