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by PJ Punla
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 13:43 |
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International Women’s Month – March of every year, global observation International Women’s Day – March 8 of every year |
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by PJ Punla
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Monday, 15 February 2010 09:40 |
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Of all the illnesses and medical events that come in a child’s life, the one that nobody wants to hear is a diagnosis of childhood cancer. Most childhood cancers are those of the white blood cells – or what are normally known as the leukemias – as well as cancers of the brain, bones, the lymphatic system, and tumors of the muscles, kidneys, and nervous system. |
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by PJ Punla
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Monday, 18 January 2010 10:27 |
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The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in supernatural themes and topics in the global collective that we call “pop culture”: how else to explain the boom of the Harry Potter books and, more infamously, the Twilight franchise. And how about the boom in Asian horror movies, packed full with assorted haunted women and children of the Sadako type? |
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by PJ Punla
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:41 |
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(All Japanese names in this story follow the surname-first format.) 
山口 彊 (Yamaguchi Tsutomu), the only man officially recognized by the Japanese government to have survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, has died on January 4 this year of stomach cancer. A young worker with Mitsubishi during the Second World War, Yamaguchi’s residence and office was in Nagasaki. In the summer of 1945 he went to Hiroshima on a business trip; he was preparing to leave that city on August 6, when the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb near the center of Hiroshima. The blast and its resulting explosion ruptured Yamaguchi’s eardrums, left him temporarily blind, and burned the left side of the top half of his body. The exposure to radiation also meant that he was now hibakusha, an “explosion-affected person”. |
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by PJ Punla
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 09:41 |
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The red ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. (Caption from http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/World_AIDS_Day)
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