A pianist’s hands
Manila Bulletin
|October 4, 2025
If you take a look at a map of the world, you'll see how vulnerable is our archipelago - an island of more than 7,100 islands.
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Into the capital of our archipelago breezed Cecile Licad, as monsoon rains fell and winds blew, dramatized by no less than an earthquake of 6.9 magnitude. Imagine our archipelago as a string of beads, broken in places and as vulnerable as a necklace being tossed about by waves hither and thither. No wonder, we have earned the dubious reputation of being "the most disaster-prone country in the world."
This story is from the October 4, 2025 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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