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Canada’s Thanksgiving Day
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering the Pilgrims who settled in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest.
Pursuing foreign policy at the United Nations
Beth Day Romulo
NEW YORK – While President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo made a brief two-day visit to New York, which included speaking for the Philippines at the United Nations, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo met with World Bank President Robert Zoellick, signed a convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and one on the use of electronic communication in international contracts, as well as an ASEAN/United Nations Cooperation Agreement.
Fast and necessary
Romeo V. Pefianco
Harry S. Truman was the first US president in fifty years without a college education. On his second term as US senator (Democrat, Missouri) it was a year before WW II started.
National Day of Uganda
The Republic of Uganda celebrates its National Day today.
OTOP for OFW
Cerge M. Remonde
The OTOP Pride of the Regions Showcase at the Ugnayan Hall of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) in Makati City last week was a reunion of sorts.
School Children’s Oral Health Awareness Week
The month of October has been declared School Health Month, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 471.
Analysis
Siddharta Kumar
Deutsche Presse Agentur
NEW DELHI – India’s plans to be the main player in Central Asia have been thwarted by China, which has emerged as the dominant force in the "New Great Game" with soaring trade and multi-billion-dollar investments in energy and infrastructure.
Martha and Mary
Luke 10:38-42
University for older adults
Gemma Cruz Araneta
One of the countries with a "golden" population is Cuba which, by 2025, will probably have the greatest proportion of elderly people in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Beyond reach?
Hern P. Zanarosa
The eradication of poverty which means the sweeping transformation of Philippine life would be the best that could ever happen to this country.
De Venecia Code
Adrian E. Cristobal
"Bookies" are taking odds on the Speaker Jose de Venecia’s fate as a consequence of impeachment complaints against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo filed by her own allies.
Track record
Hector R.R. Villanueva
Historically, the United States of America has had a deplorable track record of intervening in governance all over the world in the guise of introducing democracy, or alleviating human rights abuses, or promoting liberty when in fact, America’s ultimate motives are either its own national interests, or eyeing other countries’ natural riches or securing strategic security alliances, or using them as a springboard to military and commercial conquests.
Desperate profiling
Jullie Yap Daza
Until a Pole became pope, Poles were the butt of "Polish jokes." Until the same Pope John Paul II apologized to the Jewish people for the way Catholics blamed Jews for crucifying Jesus, Jews were supposed to be bad people.
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