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• UNITED IN PERSEVERING | Grieving the loss of the UP Diliman Faculty Center
  on Apr 2, 2016 in education news up diliman
  As you’ve probably read already, the UP Diliman Faculty Center has been ravaged by a massive 13-hour fire yesterday. Unfortunately, the Department of History where I am a Masters’ student has been obliterated because of the tragedy. Facu...
• Massive fire guts UP Diliman Faculty Center – third fire incident in ten months
  on Mar 31, 2016 in education news up diliman
  A massive fire ravaged the University of the Philippines Diliman Faculty Center (FC) early Friday morning. Faculty members from the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CAL) and the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) have their rooms in the F...
• THANK YOU VERY MUCH! | Celebrating five years of The Filipino Scribe!
  on Mar 30, 2016 in personal matters social networking sites award winning bloggers in the philippines FilipinoScribe.com Mark Madrona mark pere madrona news blogs philippines political blogs in the philippines the filipino scribe
  I am marking two life milestones March 31 of every year. On this day exactly ten years ago, I graduated from Ramon Magsaysay High School in Manila. Apart from being able to finish my secondary education (sadly, millions of Filipinos are not able to d...
• FALL OF BATAAN| April 9 2016 – Araw ng Kagitingan holiday
  on Mar 30, 2016 in history holiday announcements philippines april 9 2016 araw ng kagitingan april 9 2016 holiday april 9 2016 philippine holiday araw ng kagitingan 2016 araw ng kagitingan 2016 official theme day of valor 2016 philippines kasaysayan ng araw ng kagitingan Republic Act 3022 Araw ng Bataan
  The country will be observing the 74th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan this coming April 9, Saturday. The day, known locally as “Araw ng Kagitingan” (Day of Valor) is a legal holiday nationwide as stipulated in Republic Act 3022 which Presiden...
• April 2 2016 declared a holiday in Bulacan – Francisco Balagtas Day
  on Mar 29, 2016 in education holiday announcements news april 2 2016 holiday
  The country will commemorate the 228th birth anniversary of literary giant and famed orator Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar’s 225th birth anniversary this April 2, 2016, Saturday. President Benigno Aquino III has declared the said day as a specia...
• Pride Detergent’s ‘pro-Roxas’ ad shows a loophole in PH campaign finance law
  on Mar 27, 2016 in #BotongPinoy2016 commentary philippines
  The second presidential debate sponsored by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) last March 20 is memorable for many reasons: for being delayed by 90 minutes, for the insistence of Vice President Jejomar Binay to bring documents with him at his podi...
• Attacks on his father’s record have not been hurting Bongbong Marcos’ poll numbers
  on Mar 27, 2016 in #BotongPinoy2016 commentary politics
  Based on recent surveys conducted separately by pollsters Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations, Senator Bongbong Marcos is locked in what is turning out to be a close three-way race for the Vice Presidency against fellow Senator Francis Escudero an...
• “I CANNOT TOLERATE A SIN” | Catholic Filipina talks about rejecting her gay brother during Seven Last Words mass
  on Mar 24, 2016 in commentary lgbt rights politics
  Our family was watching the Seven Last Words mass aired at ABS-CBN this afternoon (and was held at the Saint Jude Thaddeus Church in Manila) when something got my attention. For the first word (“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what t...
• Understanding the worsening drugs problem in the Philippines
  on Mar 23, 2016 in #BotongPinoy2016 commentary politics
  Many myopic idiots have a limited understanding of the drug problem in the Philippines. They focus on small drug dealers who are easy to kill and dispose, but they do not know much about drug lords who are invisible and unknown and who finance drug m...
• Four winners and three losers from the TV5 presidential debate last March 20
  on Mar 21, 2016 in #BotongPinoy2016 commentary politics
  The second of the three presidential debates organized by the Commission on Elections and various media outlets dubbed #PiliPinasDebates2016 took place yesterday, March 20. It took place in the University of the Philippines – Cebu. Following t...

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