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At 19, we were handed a passport to the world. Not through privilege, but through ink and paper—through journalism. We became a foreign correspondent and, soon after, Manila bureau chief of the first Asian news agency, the Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, founded by the late Norman Soong, General Douglas MacArthur’s favorite war correspondent during World War II.
Those were heady days. We had a weekly column in the Philippines Herald, a newspaper that in earlier years was edited by none other than Carlos P.
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