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another sad news

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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This morning, I saw on the news about the suicide of Ako Kawada, a TV announcer here in japan. She worked for TBS from 2002 to 2006, and then she became a freelancer. She was found dead yesterday morning in a car due to carbon monoxide poisoning (which is becoming a common way to commit [...]

safe in japan?

Friday, March 28th, 2008
experiencing Japan, political-social issues | No Comments »

japan is known to be one of the safest countries in the world. and for me, when i first came here, i admit that i felt safer here than in my own country. but i’ll say, i’m safer with my family back in the Philippines.

public schools in RP may face closure

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
political-social issues | 2 Comments »

I just read this news article from Inquirer.Net about public schools that may face closure if they fail to perform well in the next National Achievement Test (NAT). The complete article is here.
After reading this news article, I wondered, is this for real? I mean, the Philippine government always has a problem with the [...]