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Beyond the Fault Line: Why the Philippines’ Next National Crisis Won’t Be Just an Earthquake
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For decades, the term “The Big One” has triggered a singular, terrifying image in the minds of Filipinos: the movement of the West Valley Fault and a catastrophic earthquake flattening Metro Manila. We map the fault lines, we retrofit our condos in BGC and Makati, and we run the Shake…
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Microsoft Philippines: Viruses, Malware in Southeast Asia
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Keshav Dhakad, Microsoft director of Intellectual Property for Asia Pacific and Japan Over a year ago, at a roundtable in Manila held to promote its Play Fair Day software initiative, Microsoft Philippines presented the high points of a study done with the Harrison Group, which aimed to explore the drawbacks of…
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The Lady on Wheels
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She starts her day at five in the morning, wakes up her two grandchildren, and sends them off to Dr. Alejandro Albert Elementary School an hour later. Instead of picking them up after class, she waits for them patiently. As she waits, she renders free services to the school, like…
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The weakest link in the Megamall heist
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MANY things don’t fit in the statements of the police on the Jan. 26 Megamall robbery. As of this writing, the Mandaluyong police have claimed to have “identified” two of the six suspects in the robbery. But in reality, they don’t have the two suspects’ names and addresses yet. What they…
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Daytime Heists, Anyone?
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Very recently, SM Megamall was hit by a high-profile robbery wherein several armed men broke glass casings and took off with high-value jewelry before anyone could stop them. Only a few months back, a similar incident also hit Robinsons Galleria where again several armed suspects intercepted an ongoing money transfer…
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NPA Atrocities in Mindanao Bolster Extortion Campaign
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Mindanao suffers increased violence in the third week of February, ahead of NPA anniversary. In the third week of February 2013, the number of violent activities supposedly perpetrated by NPA rebels in the restive Mindanao region was found to have increased significantly vis-à-vis the preceding week of the month. Fully…
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Passion, a License to Kill?
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In September 2011, two separate shooting incidents transpired inside two different malls. The first involved a distraught wife who shot her estranged husband dead and consequently, killed a security guard who came to her aid as she was about to shoot herself. The second incident involved a 13-year-old boy who…
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Lipa hotel heist leaves security guard dead, 2 wounded
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The extant gun ban notwithstanding, criminal activity continues to occur in the metropolis – in some cases resulting in security personnel dying in the line of duty, whether having successfully repelled or deterred said criminal activity or not. Such was the case in Lipa City, Batangas, early Tuesday morning. Jason…
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