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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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BRIDGES: The dialysis nurse and the patient

BY SAMMY JULIAN NURSES are very special kind of people. If there are men and women exposed to human suffering in the duration of their required working...

BRIDGES: Bringing an end to Ebola virus

SAMMY JULIAN ON the felicitous and joyous occasion of your natal day on Aug. 21, Don Alfonso Tan, kindly allow us, on behalf of Panay...

BRIDGES: Rising joblessness amid claims of growing economy

BY SAMMY JULIAN DESPITE claims of an impressive growth rate, the Aquino administration seems to have failed to address the country’s high unemployment rate. According to...

BRIDGES: Take offs and landings: keys to a nation’s development

BY SAMMY JULIAN AIRPORTS are much more than places to catch planes, or do some duty-free shopping. They are among the largest investments a city...

BRIDGES: Bureaucracy stalls TPS designation 

BY SAMMY JULIAN WE have yet to see the end of the campaign to push the Obama administration to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to...

BRIDGES: Sufferings of comfort women continue

FILIPINO comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for wartime sex slaves, continue to demand recognition and compensation from the Japanese government for sexual slavery its...

BRIDGES: Seeking new definition of savings

BY SAMMY JULIAN PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has already asked Congress to institutionalize two budgetary terms in the proposed 2015 national budget: to allow declaration...

BRIDGES: The need for clear government policy on food safety

BY SAMMY JULIAN TODAY, buyers and consumers are more meticulous when it comes to the quality and safety of food and other agricultural products they...

BRIDGES: ‘Open Door Policy’

SAMMY JULIAN (Continued from yesterday) THE irony is not lost in President Benigno Aquino III that even though the country’s immigration laws are some of the...

BRIDGES: ‘Open Door Policy’

SAMMY JULIAN THE second most-visited tourist site in Israel after the Western Wall is Yad Vashem, the official memorial to the Jewish victims of the...