For the fourth time in six months, Filipino seafarers found themselves caught in the crossfire of the Middle East crisis on board ships targeted for their Israeli links. The latest incident involves four Filipinos among 25 other crew members of the container ship MSC Aries that was seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz on April 13. Earlier in March, Houthi rebels fired anti-ship missiles at the bulk cargo vessel MV True Confidence which had
The Philippine national hunger problem would not be as hard to manage if there were not as many as 28 million families—the family, not the individual, is the Social Weather Stations hunger unit—to regularly provide with food. Nor would the traffic problem be as difficult if there were not as many as 10 million adults in the National Capital Region. Only 50 years ago, there were less than half as many to provide for. Everyone knows that population grows at a compound rate. As people reproduce, there are more of them who can reproduce. The Law of 69 is inexorable: if
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