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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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A record economic
growth
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THE respectable growth of the
Philippines in the first nine months points to another banner year
for the economy.
If not for a failed mutiny last
Thursday, the stock market would have ended the week higher. Indeed,
that the market closed in positive territory says a lot about
investors’ bullishness for the economy.
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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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BIG
DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Global warming,
global emergency
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FOR decades governments around the world have paid
lip service to climate change—and little else.
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ENTHUSIASMS
&FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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PEN, Comment and
Solidarity
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CONGRATULATIONS to National Artist Frankie Sionil
Jose, who founded the Philippine Center of PEN International in
1957, and PEN itself.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Why we were there
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JOURNALISTS were thrust between the mutinous group
of Antonio Trillanes and Danny Lim on one side and President Gloria
Arroyo’s forces on the other last Thursday.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Why Gordon likened
Trillanes to Hitler
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MANY consider Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th an idealist
who earnestly wants reforms, whatever it takes and however it is
done – including imposing them through the barrel of the gun. Sen.
Dick Gordon is among those...
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Why GMA has media
problems
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OF all Philippine presidents, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
has had the most difficult media. She has an even more difficult
time with media than the late strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos who,
before GMA, was the most vilified...
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More kids in
school, but adult illiteracy
is a global disgrace: UNESCO
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PARIS: The number of children starting primary school
worldwide has shot up since 2000 despite continuing inequalities but
adult illiteracy remains a “global disgrace,” UNESCO said in a
report Thursday.
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