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By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
AT the start of the year of the rabbit, Abrenians are in no way celebrating and are instead grieving for their own Rabbit -- the slain broadcast journalist Cirilo Gallardo. Gallardo’s DJ name was Gio Rabbit, but friends called him Tootz Cyril.

BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS
FORMER state auditor Heidi Mendoza said she went to the hearing of the House of Representative committee on justice with only one purpose: to tell the truth of what she knows about the misuse of military funds when Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia was comptroller

FOR the first time, foreign affairs and defense officials of the Philippines and the United States will hold a strategic dialogue that will cover a whole range of bilateral, regional and international issues including dispute in the South China Sea.

Photos and text by MARIO ESPINOSA
TO mark the anniversary of the bloody Mendiola Massacre, hundreds of farmers last Friday burned the effigy of President Benigno Aquino III as they marched along the streets of Mendiola.
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By YVONNE T. CHUA and ELLEN TORDESILLAS
A FORMER state auditor who testified against ex-military comptroller Carlos Garcia disclosed over the weekend a “request” from a government office for her to tell the public the evidence in the plunder case against the retired major general is weak.
But the request, made about a week after the Sandiganbayan on Dec. 16 allowed Garcia to post bail on the basis of his plea bargain agreement with special prosecutors, has only strengthened Heidi Mendoza’s resolve to reveal what she says is “the truth behind the Garcia case.”

By TESSA JAMANDRE
WHILE many blame climate change as the cause of strange weather conditions that are adversely affecting agriculture, the Hanunuo Mangyans in Occidental Mindoro attribute it to the desecration of their burial grounds by Japanese looking for skeletal remains of countrymen who perished during World War II.

EVERY year thousands of Filipino devotees flock to Quiapo Church in Manila to celebrate the Feast of the Black Nazarene. The life-size, dark, wooden sculpture is believed by many Roman Catholics to be miraculous.
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By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
ONE hundred twelve years after the Philippines declared itself an independent state, questions on the width and breadth of Philippine territory are still a subject of intense debate. The latest book of distinguished diplomat Rodolfo C. Severino, Where in the world is the Philippines?, tackles this issue comprehensively.