by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – Nowhere will the impact of climate change be felt more than in the world’s poorest nations where people live on less than a dollar a day. The brutal reality is that impoverished countries …
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by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – For centuries, rice has sculpted the culture of Asia. In fact, more than 2,000 years ago in the Philippines, tribal farmers revered the amazing native grain by carving out rice terraces using only …
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by Imelda V. Abano – Philippines – “I was working on our small vegetable farm in our backyard when I felt the earth tremble. I looked up and saw the landslide coming towards me. I hurriedly ran inside our small …
by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – Susan Luknas, is a 26-year old mother from a small village in Bontoc, Mountain Province in the Northern Philippines. All six of her children were breastfed and never tasted anything but their mother’s …
by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – TORONTO – “What has happened to me can never be undone!” Even after five years, even after being officially cleared by a prolonged government study, Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen and telecommunications …
by Imelda V. Abaño – Phillippines – Body tattooing is one of the world’s oldest art forms having been widely practiced for thousands of years in many cultures. By puncture, with a sharp tool or needle, dye is introduced under …
by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – The Philippine government will award its highest decoration to slain United States Peace Corps volunteer, Julia Campbell, describing her as a “martyred volunteer.” Campbell, 40, of Fairfax, Virginia went missing April 8 during …
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by Imelda Abaño – Philippines – On May 14, 2007, as the Philippines is scheduled for national elections. For this year’s general mid-term elections, 87,000 candidates are running for 17,000 national and local positions, which include all of the 250 …
by Imelda V. Abano – Philippines – Environmental group Greenpeace called on Asian governments to work in mitigating the impacts of climate change by shifting to renewable energy sources. The challenge to Asian governments was made April 28, at the …
by Imelda V. Abaño – Philippines – Helena, from Hyderabad, India, lost her father when she was 13 and her mother when she was 15, both from AIDS-related illnesses. And now at age 18, she is the head of the …
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