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[Summary] => Last Saturday, July 11, 2026, marked the 41st anniversary of the disappearance of Cebu activist priest Fr. Rudy Romano. Although I was only a nine-year-old child on July 11, 1985, his name was already familiar to me.
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[Title] => Fear is never neutral
[Summary] => Classes were suspended at Talisay City National High School yesterday due to a threat made over the weekend on Facebook by an unverified account using the name “Zane Bacalso.” The poster wrote, “bantay mo ugma TCNHS naay mamusil,” and offered the students condolences in advance.
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[Title] => Too young for social media
[Summary] => Following last week’s Tacloban school shooting allegedly carried out by two Grade 9 students, that killed three fellow students and injured 20 others various proposals have emerged to regulate smartphone use among children 16 years old and below, particularly their exposure to social media.
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