Here's Mon's reaction to the news article on 2004 Chemistry Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover's message to Filipino professionals.

Kim,

I have 4 first cousins who are all electrical engineers and they are all abroad: 3 are in the Middle East and 1 in Singapore after years in Dubai.

Three had their first jobs in the Philippines, working in the construction industry, and the fourth worked for years as manufacturing engineer at the Iligan Steel Mill until this closed.

Its Secret Deal with Otto Reich to Wreck Cuba's Economy
Reporters Without Borders Unmasked
By DIANA BARAHONA

When Robert Menard founded Reporters Without Borders twenty years ago, he gave his group a name which evokes another French organization respected worldwide for its humanitarian work and which maintains a strict neutrality in political conflicts Doctors Without Borders. But RSF (French acronym) has been anything but nonpartisan and objective in its approach to Latin America and to Cuba in particular.