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Tests of resilience and strength
2005 will go down as a year when the country, our people, and leaders, were put to countless tests. The year started with a hope that unlike 2004, our nation would not be swept by the damaging typhoons and divisive politics that characterized the previous year.
China faces water problem
BEIJING — Industrial pollution, unscientific waste disposal, and over-exploitation of underground resources have made China’s drinking water among the most unsafe in the world, environmental experts say.
Pope invited to Auschwitz when he visits Poland
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Roman Catholic Church has invited Pope Benedict XVI to visit the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz during his expected visit to Poland in May, a church spokesman said Thursday.
Austria takes over at EU
VIENNA — Austria takes over the European Union presidency on Jan. 1 after a year of setbacks for the 25-nation bloc, hoping to set its goals with domestic concerns in mind and lower expectations of policy breakthroughs.
Longest-serving British PMs
LONDON — Tony Blair joined the top ten longest-serving British prime ministers on Friday, after overtaking World War II leader Winston Churchill earlier this week.
New Year, new opportunity to improve
IN a cartoon strip of the New Yorker magazine, a young lad wished his grandfather a Happy New Year. The grandfather answered back saying: "What is new about it when every year is just a repetition of what has been happening the past so many years."
The Word
John 1:1-18
The need to do one’s share
WE have heard this often enough, that our people have become apathetic when it comes to problems confronting the country. We may know only too well the problems we face as a people: We are confronted by them every day. But many of us do not know what to do about them in the first place; and even if we knew, many of us have come to doubt whether we could make any difference at all.
Political stability, recovery ahead?
THEY say President Gloria Arroyo has successfully resisted the worst political crisis of her presidency and that the grounds gained by the national economy despite the troubles are encouraging signs of a better year ahead.
Fighting corruption
THE year-end comment from Tony Kwok, the world-renowned head of the anti-corruption league of Hong Kong, must be the most amazing he has made in his 27 years of fighting corruption.
Making Rizal obsolete
FORTY-six years ago, the nationalist historian Renato Constantino, who also wrote a column for this paper towards the end of his life, said in a lecture that we should make Rizal obsolete.
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