Friday, May 23, 2008
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MYANMAR UPDATE. UN Sec. Ban Ki-moon announces how Burma's leaders have just agreed to allow foreign aid workers into the country, in what's now known as a breakthrough decision by Burna's Gen. Than. It is not clear exactly whether he has agreed to give visas to foreign aid workers or let them into the delta to deliver aid. Gen. Than had until recently failed to respond to the secretary general's letters and phone calls. It wasn't until Sec. Ban himself flew to Myanmar that some headway took place. To date, about 78,000 people died and 56,000 are missing after the 2 May cyclone.
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MORE NEWS FROM ACROSS THE CONTINENT . . . Windsor town in Colorado was it by a massive tornado Thursday, killing one person and damaging many homes and businesses. The funnel cloud, accompanied by golf-ball sized hail, blackened the skies over Windsor as it knocked down power lines, shredded crops in fields outside the city and blasted whole neighborhoods. The southeast side of town was hit the worst by the storm, which began around noon. The storm, moving northwest, dissipated quickly after the tornado struck. But watches and warnings remained posted for northeastern Colorado.
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QUICK LOOK AT BUSINESS NEWS: Most Asian currencies fell moderately on Friday, surrendering part of their gains from the previous session as investors fretted about the strength of inflation and prospects for slower economic growth. The Philippine peso was an exception to the trend and rose by a fifth of a percent to recoup some of its heavy losses from Thursday, when it fell to its lowest level since since November 2007. Crude oil prices retreated below $131 per barrel on Friday from a record above $135 per barrel on Thursday on profit-taking, but analysts say inflation is a major threat to Asia.
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ON TO CONCERNS CLOSER TO HOME: Amidst concern that Filipino hcildren are not sufficiently educated for the future, Sen. Mar Roxas says the education sector should look into filling in the learning gaps between elementary and high school. Sen. Roxas is advocating the use of our mother tongue as a medium of teaching while citing how teachers in Kalinga teach in the Kalinga language to the lower grades for their English and Filipino subjects. Those students' test scores reportedly showed better results than those in other districts where the medium of instruction used was English. They are also more participative in class, and their attendance and receptiveness have improved. He added that students are not given enough time learning the basic foundations: only 10 years compared to the 12 years of basic education that those in other countries receive. This, says Roxas, is why the first two years in college are spent on “trying to fill the gaps in the early years.”
MYANMAR UPDATE. UN Sec. Ban Ki-moon announces how Burma's leaders have just agreed to allow foreign aid workers into the country, in what's now known as a breakthrough decision by Burna's Gen. Than. It is not clear exactly whether he has agreed to give visas to foreign aid workers or let them into the delta to deliver aid. Gen. Than had until recently failed to respond to the secretary general's letters and phone calls. It wasn't until Sec. Ban himself flew to Myanmar that some headway took place. To date, about 78,000 people died and 56,000 are missing after the 2 May cyclone.
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MORE NEWS FROM ACROSS THE CONTINENT . . . Windsor town in Colorado was it by a massive tornado Thursday, killing one person and damaging many homes and businesses. The funnel cloud, accompanied by golf-ball sized hail, blackened the skies over Windsor as it knocked down power lines, shredded crops in fields outside the city and blasted whole neighborhoods. The southeast side of town was hit the worst by the storm, which began around noon. The storm, moving northwest, dissipated quickly after the tornado struck. But watches and warnings remained posted for northeastern Colorado.
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QUICK LOOK AT BUSINESS NEWS: Most Asian currencies fell moderately on Friday, surrendering part of their gains from the previous session as investors fretted about the strength of inflation and prospects for slower economic growth. The Philippine peso was an exception to the trend and rose by a fifth of a percent to recoup some of its heavy losses from Thursday, when it fell to its lowest level since since November 2007. Crude oil prices retreated below $131 per barrel on Friday from a record above $135 per barrel on Thursday on profit-taking, but analysts say inflation is a major threat to Asia.
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ON TO CONCERNS CLOSER TO HOME: Amidst concern that Filipino hcildren are not sufficiently educated for the future, Sen. Mar Roxas says the education sector should look into filling in the learning gaps between elementary and high school. Sen. Roxas is advocating the use of our mother tongue as a medium of teaching while citing how teachers in Kalinga teach in the Kalinga language to the lower grades for their English and Filipino subjects. Those students' test scores reportedly showed better results than those in other districts where the medium of instruction used was English. They are also more participative in class, and their attendance and receptiveness have improved. He added that students are not given enough time learning the basic foundations: only 10 years compared to the 12 years of basic education that those in other countries receive. This, says Roxas, is why the first two years in college are spent on “trying to fill the gaps in the early years.”
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