Word: channell
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...these authors," says Montreal-based Filipino author Miguel Syjuco, who had never been published internationally until his short story "Leaves in the Rain: Redux" first came to light in an ALR issue. (His unpublished novel Ilustrado won the Man Asian Literary Prize last year.) "It's opened up a channel," he says. "It's like the Panama Canal...
...Instead he went on with his press conference, but at 8:47 a.m. he was interrupted midsentence as the government-run television station, Channel 4, went off the air. When it reappeared three hours later, the newscaster jubilantly declared, "This is the first free broadcast of Channel 4 ... The people have taken over...
...many Filipinos, the seizure of Channel 4 was one of the most remarkable events of an endlessly astonishing week. Feb. 25 was a day of twin inaugurals. Aquino had wanted a daylight ceremony because, as she said in her address, "it is fitting and proper that, as the rights and liberties of our people were taken away at midnight 14 years ago [when martial law was declared], the people should formally recover those rights and liberties in the full light of day." An hour later Ferdinand Marcos stepped onto the balcony at Malacañang Palace before a crowd...
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...Thursday, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, citing unnamed European Commission maritime officials, reported that following its attack in Swedish waters, the Arctic Sea sent a second set of radio messages saying it had again been hijacked after it passed through the English Channel, off the coast of Portugal. "Radio calls were apparently received from the ship which had supposedly been under attack twice, the first time off the Swedish coast and then off the Portuguese coast," a commission transport official told the Telegraph...