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“We need more funds. We have been stressing this to the Congress and the Senate that water districts are supposed to cater to all households nationwide,” LWUA Acting Administrator Jeci A. Lapus said in a press briefing on Monday, Feb. 8.
“Hanggang pray na lang tayo (We can only pray) [for additional funds]. But we have been submitting this request to NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority) because what we need is for the expansion of access to safe water,” he said.
According to Lapus, more than 250,000 additional households were provided access to safe and affordable water in 2020 despite the ongoing pandemic.
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The best Filipino films of 2020
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Jan 5, 2021 5:44:36 PM
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) Philippine cinema in 2020 will be remembered not by its films, but the changes the pandemic brought upon the industry.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have been the biggest stumbling block in what is being called the “Third Golden Age” of Filipino films and, overall, the crucible that will determine the future viability of Philippine cinema (or cinema in general).
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Katarungan farmers (File photo) DHON DAGANASOL, 49, admitted that “being a farmer is difficult and even more difficult today.”
“Because of climate change, the weather is getting more unpredictable,” said Daganasol as he recalled how the 2013 Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) and other succeeding typhoons leveled his farm in Carigara, Leyte.
“As 2020 is about to end, it is sad to know that the pandemic is still with us, he added, citing how the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) greatly affects the small farmers because of lockdowns.
While the government said it is doing its share to uplift the lives of the farmers, Daganasol said they have not received enough.
Our best Filipino books of 2020
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Dec 29, 2020 2:57:26 PM
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endIndex: We asked a few critics, writers, and publishers to give us some of their best or favorite reads of 2020.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) I’d like to think there are more Filipinos who read this year. The success of online book fairs such as Aklatan and the ease of having a book or books delivered to your home have certainly satiated our need to explore worlds elsewhere or understand the direness of our situation.
In Glenn Diaz’s essay on the function of fiction in the time of the pandemic, he says, “Fictional stories are most ‘instructive,’ I feel, in these moments of overlaps and slippages, when they approximate our ‘real’ experiences and perceptions just enough that we are jarred to take a second hard look. What fiction provides is not ‘information’ or ‘facts’ in the way that guidebooks or think pieces dis
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