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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.

Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country.

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES BANGUED, Abra—Not a single group working for the rights of persons with disabilities in this province has taken part in the campaign to promote PWDs’ right to suffrage but in this town, at least, village officials have taken up the cudgels for PWDs.

By PABLO A. TARIMAN
STAR Cinema’s “The Mistress” is making a killing in the box office and it is an indication the subject is no longer taboo in Philippine media and in the social hierarchy.

By LORIE ANN A. CASCARO with a report from CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY —The Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is confident it can beat the deadline of six months given for the review of Republic Act 9054 (Expanded Organic Act for the ARMM) as it has so far “achieved two major things,” RLA Speaker Rasol Y. Mitmug Jr. said.

By PABLO A. TARIMAN
AS the country recalls a dark chapter in its history by marking the 40th anniversary of martial law, it is interesting to note how that event actually changed people’s lives, most of them media icons.

By VINCENT GO YOUTH from various sectors trooped to Mendiola on the 40th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law, citing what they called the dictatorship "continuing in essence" under the administration of President Benigno Aquino.

By LEILANIE ADRIANO PASUQUIN, Ilocos Norte—A woman born with cerebral palsy became her family’s main inspiration, motivating her siblings to become medical professionals, and prompting their mother to embark on a ground-breaking dragon fruit farm that has become a model plantation emulated throughout the country.

By PABLO A. TARIMAN
THE filmmaker associated with several award-winning films (Burlesk Queen, 1977; Asedillo 1971; Ang Alamat ni Julian Makabayan, 1979) is now based in Siniloan, Laguna where he was born 69 years ago.

SEN. Antonio Trillanes IV acted as the Philippines’ backdoor negotiator with China from April to July this year, communicating with Chinese foreign affairs officials in a role, Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said, in which he won “minor successes.” But there were other back channels besides Trillanes.

FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario has recommended to President Benigno S. Aquino III the designation of Secretary Manuel "Mar" Roxas as his Special Envoy to the 9th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) to be held from Sept. 21 to 25 in Nanning, China, a press release by the Department of Foreign Affairs said.

SEN. Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday accused Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile of being a “GMA lackey” for supposedly rushing a bill that would cut up Camarines Sur province as a favor to former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

By PABLO A. TARIMAN
THERE is much to appreciate in the 26th theater season of Tanghalang Pilipino. Its production of “Walang Kukurap” written by Layeta Bucoy can pass for a contemporary version of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”