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Adapting to a New Environment, Rising to New Challenges
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Rod P. Fajardo III |
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 Its first one hundred years saw the University of the Philippines rise into a complex, confident, and geographically extensive institution. It has grown into seven constituent universities strategically located in twelve campuses across the country. It offers 258 undergraduate and 438 graduate programs to almost 52,000 students. The scope and range of its course offerings include all disciplines, and it continues to lead the country in the quest for knowledge.
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Policy Agenda for Food Security
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Prudenciano U. Gordoncillo |
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Food security is popularly defined as the availability of affordable food for the population at all times. However, the concept is often argued about from between two extremes. On the one hand, politicians, policy-makers, and program implementers equate food security with self-sufficiency, where food security is achieved through domestic production at all costs. |
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Water, Water, Everywhere? Ensuring the Country’s Water Security
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Jo. Florendo B. Lontoc |
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Some say flukes in the weather in Manila and Batangas are symptoms of climate change brought about by a global rise in temperature. Some in the Philippines have taken it to mean less rain. But scientists say this is not necessarily the case. Some parts of the Philippines may receive less rain, but others may feel no change in rain patterns at all. |
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Universal Health Care for Filipinos: The Challenge for the Next President
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Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta |
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Two weeks before the May elections, a Social Weather Station survey on health services revealed that around eight out of 10 Filipinos of voting age believe that having an agenda for better health services by the government matters in their choice of a new president. “Seventy-eight percent of Filipinos believe that an agenda for health matters this May,” former Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Dr. Alberto G. Romualdez, Jr. said. |
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Test of Will: The RH Bill and the Anti-Tobacco Advocacy
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Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta |
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The plan to provide Filipinos with universal health insurance coverage is in the rare and enviable position of not having anyone who will seriously oppose it. Unfortunately, this cannot be said for the other components of Universal Health Care. |
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The Cost of Making a Living: Addressing the OFW Phenomenon
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Francis Paolo M. Quina |
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It is a fact that almost everyone in the country has or has had at least one relative or acquaintance working overseas. Perhaps this is why in recent years, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their plight have become a staple of Filipino popular entertainment. |
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Foreign Policy for the First 100 Days of President Noynoy Aquino
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Diane A. Desierto |
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For nearly a decade of Philippine foreign policy, the Arroyo government’s foremost failure lay in ensuring meaningful compliance with preventive and/or remedial duties under international law conventions and customs. They failed to prevent torture, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances of journalists, lawyers, political activists and dissidents, or provide mechanisms for victim redress. |
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Edukasyong May Diwang Filipino*
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Virgilio S. Almario |
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Unang hirit: Alam ba ninyo na walang salitâng “laya” at lalo na’y “kalayaan” sa alinmang wika ng Filipinas? Natuklasan ito ni Rizal noong 1886 hábang isinasalin mula German ang Wilhelm Tell ni Schiller. Isang salitâ na madalas gamitin ni Schiller ay Freiheit, ang salitâ na katumbas ng libertad sa Espanyol at freedom sa Ingles. |
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