Christmas and Facebook depression

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo First, some stray thoughts from me this Christmas season: Do not be despondent, annoyed or envious when people repeatedly and continuously make Facebook posts about their awesome blessings and great fortune that most people in this world can only pine for. Christmas should not be such a cruel season. Search for gems hidden in your own life and be grateful. Look to The Manger. I say that...

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Why midnight replacements at HRVCB?

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   If it ain’t broke, why fix it?   At the 11th hour when 93 percent of some 75,000 cases filed by human rights violations victims have been adjudicated at the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board (HRVCB), and five months to go before the board’s mandate ends in May 2018, why did President Duterte have to make midnight replacements? The board was naturally shocked to learn that the...

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Christmas trash and Christmasaya

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo No apologies for associating trash with Christmas, a most loved season for us except for the scrooges. But haven’t we made scrooges of ourselves by making Christmas garbage-laden, polluted, toxic, and anything but the season it is meant to be, a Christmas groaning from all the trash, jetsam, flotsam, discards and other disposables of our consumerist, throwaway society? This fact, besides our...

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Wall honors sisters among modern heroes who helped restore justice in Philippines

http://globalsistersreport.org/news/ministry/wall-honors-sisters-among-modern-heroes-who-helped-restore-justice-philippines-50726?utm_source=GSR+digest+12-7-17&utm_campaign=cc_120717&utm_medium=em...

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Vaccines 000

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo   I wanted to use the title “Vaccines for dummies” because “for dummies” is often used in titles of informative, how-to books, but I don’t want worried nondummies to think they are being insulted.   There have been a lot of discussions and news reports on Dengvaxia, the antidengue vaccine produced by pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur, which had been reportedly administered...

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