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Tabloids like Tonite and Remate scare me. Every single day they remind me how irrational, violent, cruel, and evil humanity can become. Issue after issue its always bloody murder that headlines the paper. Crimes and murders of passion, crimes brought out of jealousy, sadness, depression, anger and hate are commonplace. Yet every so often there are slaughters out of insanity and those done out of the sheer want to kill.
Monument in Israel honors Filipinos for saving 1,200 Jews from Holocaust
Friday, 03 July 2009 16:33
MANILA, Philippines—Before Schindler’s List, there was another document—the Philippine visa—that saved hundreds of Jews from the gas chambers and mass graves of the Holocaust.
In 1939, two years before World War II reached the Pacific, the Commonwealth government under President Manuel L. Quezon allotted 10,000 visas and safe haven to Jews fleeing Nazi Europe. Some 1,200 Jews made it to Manila before the city itself fell to Japanese invaders.
Philippine Central Bank chief signals rate cut next week
Friday, 03 July 2009 16:31
The Philippine central bank reinforced investor expectations of another interest rate cut next week after Governor Amando Tetangco said the there was room for lower rates given subdued inflation risks.
"In the Philippines, as in most jurisdictions, inflation risks are subdued and inflation expectations are well-anchored. These give the BSP flexibility at this time to consider further easing of monetary policy," Tetangco said in a mobile phone text message on Thursday.
Harana sa Intramuros: An Evening of Philippine Guitar Music with Michael Dadap and Florante Aguilar
Saturday, 27 June 2009 10:21
Guitarists Michael Dadap and Florante Aguilar, leading proponents of the Philippine guitar movement, perform together for the first time on July 1 at the Intramuros Restaurant.
Their combined recording output has produced a rich collection of original music by Filipino composers - from stalwarts such as Lucresia Kasilag, Bayani Mendoza De Leon and Nicanor Abelardo to popular songwriters like Miguel Velarde Jr., Leopoldo Silos and Ryan Cayabyab.