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		<title>Cory Aquino: 1933-2009</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/cory-aquino-1933-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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I met Cory Aquino only once, before she found out she had cancer. The Foreign Correspondents of the Philippines (FOCAP) was trying to invite her as a speaker, ad the board of directors met with her. It was just a cordial meeting, not an on the record presser, and so no one wrote about what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=1876&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US plans on how to distribute swine flu vaccine</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/us-plans-on-how-to-distribute-swine-flu-vaccine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a story on how government is planning to distribute vaccine for the Influenza AH1N1.
Buti pa sa Amerika, nagpa-plano na sila kung paano, kanino at kailan ibibigay ang vaccine laban sa swine flu, kahit wala pang dumarating. Sa atin, wala nang balita mula sa Department of Health (DOH) tungkol sa swine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=1865&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right of Reply forum</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/right-of-reply-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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CenterLaw, the Open Society and the UP Journalism Club held a forum on the Right of Reply Bill Tuesday morning at the UP College of Mass Communication. Short notes on the forum, to add to the ongoing discussion about the Right of Reply Bill.
**these are NOT QUOTES, but notes taken during the speeches given. These [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=1135&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the VFA is not a treaty</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/why-the-vfa-is-not-a-treaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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In a recent forum at the UP College of Law, lawyers took turns explaining the Visiting Forces Agreement the Philippines has with the United States.
Former UP dean Pacifico Agabin explained the gist of the motion for reconsideration they filed with the Supreme Court, asking the Court to reconsider its position on the VFA as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=1089&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Right of Reply Bill</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/the-right-of-reply-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On its face, the Right of Reply bill legalizes a right already recognized in practice by every self-respecting, ethical journalist: the individual&#8217;s right to air his/her side of the story. (Click here for both the House and Senate versions of the bill).
This is nothing but fairness, which is at the heart of every good journalistic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=1051&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King of the Road</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-king-of-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filipinos don&#8217;t know how to obey when they&#8217;re in the Philippines, some commentaries say. Let us begin, some said before, by obeying authorities.
What about the &#8220;authorities&#8221;? Do they obey the same laws that the citizens are supposed to obey? Have they, by the example they set, taught us to obey? Last Sunday a looong motorcade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=750&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The press is more free in Nicaragua, Kosovo, Thailand, and Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/the-press-is-more-free-in-nicaragua-kosovo-thailand-and-malaysia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine media is not Asia&#8217;s most free. The Reporters san Frontiers ranks the Philippines 139th in its 2008 report on press freedom, down from its slot of 128th last year. The Philippines is below Malaysia, Thailand, and even Timor-Leste. It is several slots down from Chad and Sudan, where the report said that &#8220;the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=702&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burned bone found in site identified by torture victim</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/burned-bone-found-in-site-identified-by-torture-victim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fact-finding mission had found what appeared to be a burned human bone, in a place identified as an old Army camp by brothers Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo. The Manalo brothers, as they are called, were abducted and tortured but managed to escape. They said members of the military took them, brought them to several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=656&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those who have turned their backs on their own cause</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/those-who-have-turned-their-backs-on-their-own-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They proclaim that change is impossible — and they see to it that it can’t happen by opposing it. They’re the self-fulfilling prophecies that have helped keep this country in the depths of the brutality, despair, hunger and hopelessness that defines life for the millions fighting for survival in these isles of want. When the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=604&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rantings and ravings</title>
		<link>http://danabatnag.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/rantings-and-ravings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, while I lined up to buy bread at the grocery store, there was a small, barefooted boy holding a handful of garlands ahead of me. He was lining up to buy a pack of noodles. Must be dinner for him, I thought: it was past 9 p.m. Later, outside the grocery store, I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=danabatnag.wordpress.com&blog=3813736&post=277&subd=danabatnag&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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