Posts Tagged with "Philippines"

Atomic: How Manny Pacquiao Got To Congress

Sunday, August 1, 2010

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Atomic: How Manny Pacquiao Got To Congress

The Post Magazine 1 August 2010 Manny Pacquiao is the world's sixth-richest sportsman and arguably the best pound-for-pound boxer on the planet. But one prize has always eluded him: political office. That's why, when he campaigned for a seat in the Philippine Congress in May, the gloves came off.

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Gunfire Etc.

Monday, June 28, 2010

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I recently met a Filipino journalist in General Santos City who doesn’t carry a reporter’s notebook. What Joseph Jubelag carries is a “Reporter’s Notebook And Safety Guide”. It is distributed by the International News Safety Institute, a group set up “to help journalists survive the story”. The notebook is prefaced with advice on how to [...]

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Philippine Mass Murder

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Philippine Mass Murder

TIME.com 10 May 2010 Last November 57 people were massacred in Maguindanao, the private fiefdom of the Ampatuan clan. Will anyone ever be convicted? With global outrage subsiding and a new President about to take office, there's a real chance the trial will stall.

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Many Many Manny

Monday, March 22, 2010

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MANILA — Reporting from the Philippines is like falling down a rabbit hole. My quest to interview boxing god Manny Pacquiao is less than 24 hours old and already things are getting surreal. He arrived at dawn and ate breakfast at a Makati hotel. So did his hundred-strong entourage, which this morning included reporters, motorcycle [...]

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