U.S. Vows to Import 500,000 Foreign Nurses
Region: Philippines
It's hard to believe when President Barack Obama said during a healthcare summit held at the White House recently about the plan of the United States government to import at least 500,000 foreign nurses to fill up the curr... more
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What Needs to be Done in Gaza?
Region: Israel
Kind of a million dollar question that needs to be digested in order to come up with the right, if not, probable solutions to the problems that now put the relationship between the Hamas militants and the Israel military i... more
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Clinton ignores corrupt Asian country
Region: PhilippinesThe just concluded official trip of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to a number of Asian countries was a welcome opportunity for these governments to further strengthen and improve bilateral relations, especially on ... more
Views: 248Op-Ed: Bailout Money in Exchange for Majority Stocks
Region: United StatesThere is something that keeps bothering me as I write this article for GroundReport.com. This is particularly true with the present recession that plagues the United States economy, whose wide-ranging impacts on the rest o... more
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Police officials' sojourn in Moscow questioned
Region: PhilippinesWhat an untimely piece of news to hear that a number of ranking police officials in the Philippines has been allowed by the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to attend police-related seminars abroad? With the economi... more
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BBC needs to apologize to Filipino women
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)It is sad to learn from media reports that Filipina domestic helpers in Great Britain were portrayed in a bad light. And the culprit is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which aired a Filipina DH doing some gyra... more
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Wall Street meltdown cripples weaklings
Region: PhilippinesThe financial volatility in the Wall Street has spread without control to the rest of the world, thus putting some corporate subsidiaries' in the international markets without any option but to suffer the tailspin of the L... more
Views: 508Op Ed: Bailout Package Favors Corporate Fat Cats
Region: United States
The federal government's US$700 bailout financial package to rescue an ailing financial market impacted by the recent collapse of Lehman Brothers Group has been described as an initiative that could only favor the corporat... more
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An inquiry from a Chinese college student
Region: ChinaIt is heartwarming to know that someone from as far away as Jinan, China, is finding time to read entries at groundreport.com, which I write for. In fact, the Chinese email sender sent me a personal email on June 14, aski... more
Views: 620Gov't eyes huge Medicaid cuts; SSA monitors SSIs
Region: United StatesThe federal government's plan to cut huge funding support to state governments across the country is expected to take a serious toll on those millions of residents who either lack insurance coverage or the uninsured patien... more
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Al Jeratso is a freelance journalist, writer, poet and blogger. Many of his articles, touching on a wide variety of issues, appeared in major leading dailies and magazines both in Manila and abroad, including the United States and England. He held various editorial positions with several media organizations, the last of which was as senior news editor of a newswires organization in Manila.
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