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                    [Title] => Unesco proclaims Maranao’s Darangan epic as ‘masterpiece of intangible heritage’
                    [Summary] => PARIS — The Darangan epic of the Maranaos was proclaimed by the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a "masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity" in a ceremony held recently at the UNESCO headquarters, according to a telex sent to the Department of Foreign Affairs by the Philippine Permanent Delegation to UNESCO.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-12-13 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => The violent Nicanor Reyes clash was just what they wanted
                    [Summary] => PARIS, France – The mini-battle on Nicanor Reyes street in Sampaloc, just off FEU, is just what the militant demonstrators wanted: an opportunity to show on live television and in photographs that La Emperadora’s police were bashing heads and using "storm troopers" tactics.


It didn’t matter, naturally, that as many cops were injured as "rioters". The anti-GMA marchers got the TV footage and international publicity they needed to project themselves as "martyrs" in the freedom fight.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-10-23 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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                    [Title] => Bashing Bush is Europe’s  favorite pastime today
                    [Summary] => PARIS, France – It’s all George W. Bush’s fault. That’s the refrain I’ve been hearing ever since I stepped off the plane here in Paris – from the Charles De Gaulle air terminal at Roissy to the corner bistro.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-03-23 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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                    [Title] => The true, the beautiful: Ching’s Symphony No. 2 / Cecile’s new triumph
                    [Summary] => A persistent viral flu drove me to slacken my pace, thus causing me to miss significant performing arts presentations. One of these was the PPO concert which had Ruggero Barbieri conducting Jeffrey Ching’s "Imp of the Perverse" (Symphony No. 2 in one movement).


Only the erudite Ching, with his incredibly broad literary and artistic background, imagination and orginality, would have thought of taking the title of his work from an Edgar Allan Poe story with these lines as epigraph to the score:


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Unesco proclaims Maranao’s Darangan epic as ‘masterpiece of intangible heritage’

December 13, 2005 - 12:00am

PARIS — The Darangan epic of the Maranaos was proclaimed by the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a "masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage...

Nation

The violent Nicanor Reyes clash was just what they wanted

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | October 23, 2005 - 12:00am

PARIS, France – The mini-battle on Nicanor Reyes street in Sampaloc, just off FEU, is just what the militant demonstrators wanted: an opportunity to show on live television and in photographs that La Emperadora’s...

Opinion

Bashing Bush is Europe’s favorite pastime today

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | March 23, 2004 - 12:00am

PARIS, France – It’s all George W. Bush’s fault. That’s the refrain I’ve been hearing ever since I stepped off the plane here in Paris – from the Charles De Gaulle air terminal at Roissy...

Opinion

The true, the beautiful: Ching’s Symphony No. 2 / Cecile’s new triumph

By SUNDRY STROKES | October 25, 2003 - 12:00am

A persistent viral flu drove me to slacken my pace, thus causing me to miss significant performing arts presentations. One of these was the PPO concert which had Ruggero Barbieri conducting Jeffrey Ching’s "Imp...

Opinion