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RP’s election to the World Food Programme Executive Board
THE Philippines was elected to the World Food Programme Executive Board (WFP-EB) at the recent 131st Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against global hunger. Its vision is a world in which every man, woman, and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life.
Sudden turnabout
HOWEVER it had happened, surely President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s sudden turnabout just after holding up her Charter change drive has surprised a lot of people, including those who favored it.
Micro credit for China’s poor
AFTER Mohammed Yunus, the "Father of Micro credit" was recently awarded the Nobel Prize, China’s leaders appeared to have taken note of his 30-year-work, spreading the Grameen Bank theory of small loans, with no collateral, to poor people, a theory which has changed the face of world funding and is now used in 40 countries, and decided that it also might be applicable in China. Despite China’s enormous economic gains, there are still financially arid sections of the country where many Chinese live below the poverty line, which has resulted in a constant exodus of the rural young to the major cities, looking of work.
Year of extreme weather: Is it global warming?
GENEVA (dpa) - Flooding in the Horn of Africa, typhoons in Asia, drought in Australia, and the latest prediction that Arctic ice may melt completely in the summer months as soon as 2040.
Road nightmares
(Editor’s note: Air pollution in RP is viewed as part of human existence as noted by the author.)
The LFS
IN the latest report of the National Statistics Office (NSO), employment as of October this year improved in almost all key sectors, but most notably in services.
The LFS
IN the latest report of the National Statistics Office (NSO), employment as of October this year improved in almost all key sectors, but most notably in services.
The holidays: Stress levels up everywhere
WASHINGTON (AP) - Stress - that tense feeling often connected to having too much to do, too many bills to pay and not enough time or money - is a common emotion that knows few borders.
Mary visits Elizabeth
Luke 1:39-45
Ornament of the world
THAT is the provocative title of an engaging book I can hardly put down. Very briefly, it is about how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a "culture of tolerance," which is what we lack these days and which seems to prove that instead of advancing towards civilized harmony, we have definitely retrogressed far beyond the Dark Ages. According to Maria Rosa Menocal, author of "Ornament of the World,’’ the Middle Ages, or Medieval period, was and still is described as an epoch of darkness and ignorance. It was only during the Rennaissance, a word which means rebirth, that classical traditions and learning were finally "rediscovered."
The season for giving
Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.
— Jean de la Bruyere
‘Adeste Fideles’
AT a time when every other sentimental adult rues the dead or dying tradition of hanging a lantern to welcome Christmas, the church in Forbes Park that was all dressed up to look like the most festive concert hall was raining lanterns – a climate of them in cascades, clusters, garlands, bunches and arches and chandeliers of them, all in white, white as snow, white as angels’ wings, white as, well, a white Christmas.
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