Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Landslides (opens the original)
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IN this season of extraordinary monsoon rains frequently assaulting the country, the accompanying flooding and mobility problems come with lethal landslides. Landslides of various kinds have in the near past and present become recurring events. They cause not just economic and environmental destruction but an unconscionable number of deaths. A landslide is a downward movement of rock, soil, debris down a slope due to gravity. This occurs when the force of gravity becomes greater than the strengt
Salex: The new menace in the Third World (opens the original)
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WHILE we are bogged down in traffic, hoping for solutions to our mobility problem in the way that progressive cities have done — providing affordable and efficient mass public transportation like trains, subways, and because we have a river, ferries, it seems to be an unreachable dream. We are stuck in the Third World where inequality reigns as resources are used by the few to the detriment of the many. That is my definition of “Third World.” In the matter of mobility here, our governance seems
A flood foretold (opens the original)
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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. ON Aug. 15, after two weeks of heavy and incessant rain due to typhoons and the monsoon, a lucky celebrant had a morning of sunshine for her long-planned 80th birthday party in Bacolor, Pampanga. I was an invited guest and duly took the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) north to Bacolor. It was in normal passable conditions, but I did notice the fields on each side of the expressway flooded almost to the fringe of the road. I said to myself and a few ot
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