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While environmental sustainability is an issue being seriously taken globally, it seems that the Philippines has a different idea and prefers to follow a different route.
Only nine months after signing Executive Order 23 implementing an indefinite log ban…
Before tackling any story, it is incumbent upon a journalist to ask the basic questions to ensure that the consequent reporting passes through “the lens of ethics” as Dr. Kidder puts it. Is it expedient? Meaning to say, is the alarm-setting story tending to promote some proposed or desired object, fit or suitable for the intended target purposes, and primed enthusiastically and properly contextualised under the given circumstances [...]
Nagsipagsulputang parang mga kabute. (All too suddenly, proliferating like mushrooms) – there are now 7 essentially news and other features-orientated publications circulating within the Filipino target community in NSW: either singly as a hard copy with no corresponding online version or, or purely an online venture such as what you are reading now. The four others come in two-folds i.e. hard copy and accessible also in the internet [...]
We have recently seen how unethical and illegal practices by journalists led to the demise of a part of the media empire owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch. The scandalous practices included phone tapping, ‘doctored’ footages [...]
Ang watawat ay isang sagisag na ang taglay ay ang kaluluwa ng isang bansa, ng kaniyang kasaysayan ng Pilipinas, at ng paninindigan ng mga nagsakit alang-alang sa kapakanan ng bansa [...]
Like the last ten years or so of the PCC Independence Ball, this is what this whole APCO affair is sorely and obviously lacking in– substance woven into an entertaining and delightful evening. In this regard, I’m afraid APCO will fall into the same imburnal [...]
113 years later, what are we really celebrating? Why is this date so important? Is it the joy of having another public holiday? Is it the recognition of the Filipino’s heroism [...]
I envy my friends in the New York City area. They enjoy two things which are not available to us here in Sydney; at least, not presently. Firstly, they have an array of musical shows on offer all year round in Broadway. One could even get to see top quality performances at bargain prices [...]
And what is a better event to display our unity than to observe, as one community with no distinction of our affiliations, a part of our history – the Declaration of Philippine Independence [...]
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