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By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
STRANGE things are going on at the National Printing Office which has been given the job to bid out P780 million contract to supply and print 55 million ballots for the May 2013 elections.

by VERA Files EVER wondered who makes the wooden jeepneys on sale at the handicraft store Kultura?

By AUREA LYNNE PAZ and HAZEL P. VILLA ILOILO CITY – The city’s Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO) will hold on Oct. 25 the last of its weekly lectures to make PWDs aware of their right to vote in the midterm 2013 elections, as the last day of registration approaches. The lectures were scheduled every

By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
OFTEN times, the best way to change the look of your house is by replacing your décor and furniture. It is less expensive and more fun to do.

By PABLO A. TARIMAN
IT was a good thing that Channel 7 showed four landmark films of Marilou Diaz-Abaya on the weekend she was laid to rest. It is a coincidence that GMA Films produced three of them – “Sa Pusod Ng Dagat,” “”Muro-Ami” and “Jose Rizal.”

By NORMAN SISON
ON his first visit to the Philippines, the Belgian soil and management expert couldn’t believe at what he was seeing on a tour of coffee farms in the province of Cavite just last week. David D’haeze is used to trekking on mountain trails and rough roads to inspect coffee plantations in Vietnam, where he has been working for the past 14 years.

Four years ago, Congress passed a law granting privileges to persons with disabilities. But certain sectors questioned the law, which is why it has not been fully implemented.

By CARLA PARAS-SISON
CAN a breast injury cause breast cancer? Do older women have a lower or higher risk of breast cancer? Are women with no family history of breast cancer immune to it?

By KHRYSTA IMPERIAL RARA "WE lead the change." This slogan printed on the t-shirts of more than a hundred high school students from Sophia School in Meycauayan, Bulacan says it all. They're helping lead the change among the youth from a daily all-meat diet to a once-a-week meat-free fare. These students eat plant-based meals every Monday in school.

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES BANGUED, Abra—The filing of certificates of candidacy for local positions last week signals the approaching election season, and for inmates at the Abra Provincial Jail (APJ), this could mean one thing: Freedom.

By PABLO TARIMAN THE country's great voices are headed for last curtain calls with farewell concerts.

By PABLO A. TARIMAN THE 753-page of "Juan Ponce Enrile: A Memoir" has many things going for it.