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I can’t help but feel dismayed by the response of some concerned government officials to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s order for them to work on measures to stop smuggling and to improve the lives of Filipinos. But I am not losing hope that with the President’s persistence for good…
As of yesterday, the official death toll had topped 28,000 as more bodies were found following the powerful earthquake on Feb. 6 that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria. Officials are reportedly looking into building safety standards in the earthquake-hit areas as experts noted that the areas have not experienced a powerful earthquake in 200 years.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the death toll from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey near the Syrian border had surpassed 5,000.
In this column on Tuesday, Jan. 18, I referred to the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport as a white elephant.
Earthquakes frequent the Philippines, an Asian country of 108 million inhabitants. And this is because the archipelago (made up of 7,641 islands) is on the western edge of the so-called “Ring of Fire”. There’s a fascinating reason why geologists attribute "fire" to it. The vast area is a seismically active site, which often triggers volcanic eruptions and tremors. Another fact: this area is home to 75% of the world’s 1,500 most active volcanoes. About 300 of those volcanoes are in the Philippines, of which 22 are active and the rest (278) are "dormant" as of the record. Why is the Ph...