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One year of rehab for Manila Bay: Beyond coliform readings
A TIMELY question a year after the “Battle for Manila Bay” was launched: Who’s winning? The government kicked off its three-phase and seven-year rehab plan for the once majestic... Read more
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Continuing nCoV coverage: News organizations made a difference
FILIPINO WATCHED with alarm as China grappled with the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (nCoV-ARD). With overseas Filipino workers in China and elsewhere, and the... Read more
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The nCoV travel ban: Beyond the regional scope
PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte ordered a temporary ban on the entry into the Philippines of tourists from China and its special administrative regions of Macau and Hongkong. But some visitors... Read more
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Journalist arrested in police raid
CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Eastern Vista newspaper Executive Director Frenchiemae Cumpio was arrested, along with four others, in simultaneous raids by Leyte police today, 7 February 2020 in Tacloban City. Tacloban... Read more
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Community publication executive director threatened
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – An unidentified man bearing a bouquet of flowers and a photo of Eastern Vista newspaper Executive Director Frenchiemae Cumpio visited the office in Tacloban City, Leyte on 31... Read more
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Gabino Tabuñar Jr., 94
GABINO “GABY” TABUÑAR, Jr., veteran journalist and chairman emeritus of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP), passed away on Tuesday, February 4. He was 94. In a... Read more
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News that keeps up with science
JOURNALISTS HAVE demonstrated improved capacity in reporting tropical cyclones and its dangers. Some 20 typhoons a year gives the press a lot of practice. With the eruption of Taal,... Read more
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Editorial Cartoons of the Week (January 25 to 31)
Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 25, 2020 The Manila Times, January 27, 2020 Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 30, 2020 Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 31, 2020 The Manila Times, January 31,... Read more
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Initial coverage on nCoV threat: Some media organize information better than others
ON DECEMBER 31, 2019, overseas news reported an outbreak of a “mysterious” respiratory disease spreading in China. By January 7, 2020, Chinese health authorities had identified the disease as... Read more
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Journalists barred from press briefing in evacuation center
CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Police barred members of the media from an evacuation center for displaced indigenous people in Davao City on 25 January 2020. The media were there to cover... Read more