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...century, some say, was the golden age of the big, bland chain hotel. Vacationers of the 1950s or '60s took out second mortgages to afford jet travel, supposedly to find, as they hurtled from destination to destination, that a hotel room in Melbourne was the same as one in Manila. Innkeepers were accused of rolling out design templates such that no matter where you awoke in the world, the features of your room-the bedside panel, the writing desk-looked identical. Indeed, the very words Holiday Inn or Hilton took on a pejorative connotation: they were globalization's earliest villains...
...dying movement, the New People's Army (N.P.A.) [Feb. 5]. Your photos tried to conjure an image of the N.P.A. rebels as Spartan revolutionaries, although most Filipinos know them to be bandits who survive through pillaging, extortion and coercion. And, oh yes, through naive media people. Isabelo Gatmaitan Manila...
...Philippine government counters that the new licensing rules will allow Manila to more closely monitor the domestics they export and therefore protect them from abuse. Says Rosalinda Baldoz, administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, "We are tired of hearing stories of Filipino maids being attacked in the face with a hot flat iron by her employer." Across Asia, rampant reports of imported workers suffering inhumane treatment include inadequate wages, verbal and physical assault, even rape. Last month, leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, meeting in the Philippines, also took similar steps to regulate...
...where she made comments that the local media deemed to have fallen well short of condemning the practice: "Dog meat keeps you warm, does it not?" the President is reported to have said to Baguio mayor Braulio Yaranon over dinner. In a transcript sent by Arroyo's handlers in Manila's presidential palace, Arroyo claimed her knowledge of the culinary use of dog meat was rudimentary...
...signaled a distaste in the capital of Manila for the habit of eating dogs, in line with international standards. But some Filipinos are contemptuous of such concerns: "What's the big deal about eating dogs?" asked Becky Judalena, who comes from a tribe in the northern province of Ilocos that's known for eating dog. "This is a way of life. Why impose Western culture on us natives? To each his own. And to hell with the [French actress turned animal rights campaigner] Brigitte Bardots of this world...