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Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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The case for JPEPA |
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Perceptive observers believe the Japan-Philippines
Economic Partnership Agreement, or JPEPA, notwithstanding the
objections raised against it, will be able to pass muster in the
Senate. Individual senators, they predict, will find it in their
collective wisdom to ratify the treaty, of course after going
through it with a fine-tooth comb. The accord, after all, is
necessary to hasten the country’s economic development.
Sure, Japan expects to derive
benefits from JPEPA as well, along with similar deals struck with
other countries. That is the primary reason it signed the agreement
in the first place. But only the paranoid would describe it as
lopsided, skewed in favor of the other side. Despite its economic
clout, Japan cannot dictate—or hope to dictate—on the
Philippines, or any other country for that matter, as if it were a
client state. This is no longer the age of colonialism.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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EAST
AND WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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What Sison’s
arrest means
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Manila newspapers headlined
yesterday the arrest of Mr. Jose Ma. Sison, political consultant of
the National Democratic Front, in the peace talks with government.
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HERE I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Malu Fernandez:
Hate ugly Filipinos
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Don’t we ever run out of
scandals? Lately it has been the fierce and fabulous author Malu
Fernandez of People Asia magazine.
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FROM THE
SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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A selective
deployment for Filipino maids
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The Trade Union Congress of the
Philippines (TUCP) has welcomed the drastic drop in the number of
Filipino domestic helpers deployed abroad. It says that from a high
of 57,923 maids recruited for overseas jobs...
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OF MIGHT & RIGHT SERIES
By Joseph S. Nye
, Project Syndicate
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The changing face
of energy security
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For three decades, the rich world
has talked about curbing its addiction to imported oil. But, despite
the anxious rhetoric, the oil-supply problem has become worse and
energy security more complex.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Buying a
big-screen tv?
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Prices of big screen television
sets are coming down to earth. So-called plasma or LCD tv sets of 32
inches or larger are no longer as costly as the price of an
entry-level Korean car.
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US Sikhs outraged
by new turban search policy
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WASHINGTON: The largest civil
rights organization of American Sikhs has expressed outrage at a new
US airport security policy that it said allows arbitrary searches of
turbans,...
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