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...that changed on Aug. 21, 1983, when Benigno Aquino returned to the Philippines after three years of exile in the U.S. only to be shot dead even before he could set foot on the tarmac of Manila's international airport. Filipinos were outraged, and suspicion immediately fell on Marcos. At Benigno's funeral, mourners transformed Corazon into a symbol. (Read TIME's 1986 Woman of the Year cover story on Aquino...
...MOUs with employing nations as a way to build relations and bridge differences between labor laws, some migration experts are skeptical about their efficacy as typically, MOUs are nonbinding agreements. "They are written in very, very general terms," says Maruja Asis, research director at the Scalabrini Migration Center in Manila. "The implementation has been very problematic." Some experts say that MOUs can even harm migrants because they create a hierarchy of protection based on ethnicity or type of work. Host countries can be selective with which origin countries they will forge MOUs, creating situations in which some workers are better...
...today's generation, medium and content are on equal footing. Should I decide to join Twitter, my first tweet would be this: "Nothing can replace face-to-face communication." Sherwin Diaz Castillo, Manila...
...knew that there would have to be layoffs, but I wasn’t expecting this,” he said, holding up the manila folder. “I was looking forward to working with you guys the whole summer...
...involve teenagers - the first confirmed infected on Saturday were high school students on a volleyball team - but those sick with the new strain of flu now range from 5 years old to 60. "It circulated silently, without anybody thinking of it," says Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the WHO in Manila. "The virus is highly transmittable, and signs of it breaking out of a contained area into the greater community must be watched and taken very seriously." (See the 5 things you need to know about swine...