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Poverty and our “wowowee economy”

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Visayan Daily Star
Perspective
Rowena V. Guanzon
Feb. 21, 2006
Poverty and our “wowowee economy”
If the Wowowee stampede that killed 74 people including small children, all but two of them women, cannot move me from hibernation, I don’t know what can. It was heartbreaking, seeing all those people dead on television, and all because more than 30,000 […]

Plinky Recto’s case

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

this is a page from the Visayan Daily Star, Bacolod City
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Bacolod City, Philippines Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Bago judge allows taking of Recto child
Actress Plinky Recto disclosed on national television yesterday that her 15-month-old son was taken by her former lover from her condominium yesterday morning.
Recto said her former partner, whom she did not name on […]

Farewell to Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Perspective with Rowena Guanzon
Visayan Daily Star
Bacolod City, Philippines
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Chief Justice Davide Jr.’s legacy
December 19 was Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr.’s last day in the Supreme Court, a Chief Justice whose court has been called an “activist court” by some, and short of “meddling” by others. He is not spared from political […]

half the sky

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

VISAYAN DAILY STAR
Bacolod City, Philippine
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Perspective
with Rowena V. Guanzon
OPINIONS
Women hold up half the sky
BEIJING - “Women hold up half the sky,” and this could not be more true in China, where 6 billion of 13 billion people are women. Yet, women all over the world do not have equal power with men […]

GMA will tame us or slay us

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Perspective
By Rowena Guanzon
Visayan Daily Star (www.visayandailystar.com)
November 15, 2005
Tame us or slay us?
IF Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would have her way, we in the media would all be her propagandists, writing only about the good things she has done without the bad, dancing to her every tune and singing halleluiah. In the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkasters ng […]

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