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World remembers traffic victims

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THE DEATH of a loved one on the road could alter and overturn your life overnight. And forever. This was what happened on that evening of May 13, 2011 when two buses racing with each other to get passengers on Commonwealth Avenue toward Philcoa caused the death of my wife Chit, with one bus crushing the entire rear passenger seat of a Toyota Vios taxi like an accordion. I therefore speak not just as an ordinary citizen more than a year after, but as one who has lost a loved one overnight.

Posted: November 18th, 2012 in Editors' Picks,Headlines,Nation | Read More »

‘Beloved, I’ll not really say goodbye’

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(The author is the widower of veteran journalist and UP professor Lourdes Chit Estella-Simbulan who died on May 13 and was cremated on May 17. Her urn will be brought to San Agustin Church in Intramuros today, June 21, the 40th day after her death.) You were snatched from us “as swift as the wind” [...]

Posted: June 21st, 2011 in Headlines,Nation | Read More »

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