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How the Arroyo administration has been failing in its efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (there is a 2015 deadline) is what media have been focusing on.
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THE writer Andrew Rooney once declared, in all seriousness, that there are circumstances when what a society needs is “an undevelopment program.”
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By Rene Q. Bas Editor in Chief
How the Arroyo administration has been failing in its efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (there is a 2015 deadline) is what media have been focusing on.
Read more: Quietly, step-by-step six key govt agencies meeting their reform goals
BANGKOK: Thousands of Thai protesters packed trucks, cars and motorbikes in a carnival-like convoy Saturday aimed at winning over the capital's residents in their flagging "class war" against the government.
Read more: Thais flood streets to enlist public in anti-govt struggle
ZAMBOANGA: Islamist militants killed a member of the Philippine security forces and wounded six others Saturday in two attacks on a remote southern island, officials said.
Read more: One dead, six hurt in clashes in Basilan – security forces
CHICAGO, Illinois: Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James became the youngest to reach 15,000 points, breaking Kobe Bryant’s mark in a National Basketball Association game on Friday (Saturday in Manila).
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