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GUSI PEACE PRIZE HONORS 2007 LAUREATES
Tet Andolong
Business Mirror
November 26, 2007
THE 2007 Gusi Peace Prize Awards, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, were given to 15 eminent personalities from all over the world, including three Filipinos, in ceremonies held at the Meralco Theater in Pasig City on November 21.
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ALVAREZ, ACOSTA TO GET GUSI PEACE AWARDS
Efren Montano
People's Tonight
November 19, 2007
FORMER Sen. Heherson Alvarez, Chief Public Attorney Persida V. Rueda-Acosta as well as Presidential Anti-Graft and Corruption Commission chairperson Connie de Guzman will be among the 16 2007 Gusi Peace Prize laureates to be honored Wednesday at the Meralco Theater in Pasig City.
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PREASSURING ASEAN ON BURMA
POLITICAL TIDBITS by Belinda Olivares-Cunanan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
November 19, 2007
Three Filipino officials join outstanding international leaders this Tuesday night, at the Meralco Theater, as winners of this year’s Gusi Peace Prize. They are Chief Public Attorney Persida Rueda-Acosta, Presidential Anti-Graft Commission Chair Constancia de Guzman and former senator and former environment secretary Heherson Alvarez.
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ALVAREZ A RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR'S GUSI PEACE PRIZE AWARD
Manila Bulletin
November 18, 2007
For elevating climate change and global warming as the foremost environmental issues in the country today, as well as his dedicated public service, former Senator and Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Heherson T. Alvarez will receive this year 2007 Gusi Peace Prize Award, dubbed Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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AN ENVIRONMENTALIST REWARDED
FIRST CRACK by Fel V. Maragay
Manila Standard TODAY
November 17, 2007
LONG before Filipinos took notice of global warming and became almost paranoid over this abnormal phenomenon, an environmental crusader, then Senator Heherson Alvarez, was already warning his countrymen about the harm that it would bring to mankind. Perhaps it was from Alvarez that we first heard of the term ozone layer, which serves as the earth’s natural cover in the skies and absorbs most of the sun’s ultra-violet radiation. As chairman of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources, Alvarez expressed alarm over the continuing depletion of the ozone layer because of the uncontrolled and indiscriminate burning of fossil fuel and destruction of the forests.
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