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Thursday, February, 8 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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The investments we seek |
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ACAUTIONARY note on Moody’s Investors Service
issued a few days ago is a welcome response to the government’s
newfound triumphalism.
After ending 2006 with a budget
deficit that is way below the P125-billion ceiling, the government
has been all over town, promising everyone that the good times are
here again.
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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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Where Villar goes
from here
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Senate President Manny Villar is
one of the rising stars in politics these days. In his hands—as
unofficial spokesman for the Wednesday Group that carries the swing
vote in the Senate...
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HERE I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Less in life
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It was President Ramon Magsaysay
who said that “he who has less in life should have more in law.”
I think this is one of the most popular and often quoted lines in
history.
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FROM THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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Brion and Ople
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Last week, Labor Secretary Arturo
Brion invited me to speak at the writing seminar for information
officers of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in San
Pablo City.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Ironic twist in
KMT-CCP politics
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The top leadership of the
People’s Republic of China on the mainland, still ruled firmly by
the Communist Party, is incessantly irritated by the
pro-independence stand of the present administration running...
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Global warming
‘very likely’ caused by man
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Global warming has begun and will
only get worse, not better. It was “very likely” caused by man
and not by forces of nature. Temperatures will rise by 3.5 to 7.1
degrees Fahrenheit over the next 95 years.
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Malaysian
Islamic court holds fate of Chinese
switched at birth and raised a Malay Muslim
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KUALA LUMPUR: The fate of an
ethnic Chinese man who was switched at birth and brought up as a
Malay Muslim, and who now wants to renounce the religion, is in the
hands of Malaysia’s Sharia courts..
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Chiang Kai-shek
statues removed
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The Taiwanese government has
taken steps to remove hundreds of statues of the late Nationalist
leader Chiang Kai-shek from all military premises.
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