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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Poverty decline in
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Most Asian countries, including the Philippines, are
keeping to the United Nations’ 15-year plan for halving extreme
poverty in the continent by 2015.
The plan was launched
seven-and-a-half years ago, at the turn of the new millennium. The
goal also includes improving health and education for the most
deprived members of society and increasing the empowerment of women.
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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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POLICY PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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Senate briefing 2
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IN my last column I wrote about
the Senate orientation given by the Senate secretariat to the new
senators who would be starting their jobs this July 23 under the
Fourteenth Congress.
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EAST
AND WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Don’t postpone barangay elections
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Some people are proposing that
the elections for barangay officials scheduled this October should
be postponed. This is a bad suggestion, motivated by the selfish
interests of incumbent officials backed...
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Virtual martial
rule
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THE most reverend Fr. Santiago
Salas, spokesman for the National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas,
lambasted the AFP for deploying troops to the northern barangay
units of Tacloban City.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Repositioning RCBC
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At the recent annual stock
holders’ meeting of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., its CEO of
five months, Lorenzo Tan, 45, defined where the Yuchengco-owned bank
is going.
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MEN & EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Garbage in, cash
out
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EARLY last month, a small news
item was tucked in the inside pages of the newspapers, drowned by
screaming headlines about the fierce fight for the 12th slot in the
May 14 winning senatorial lineup.
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Suspense builds in
East Timor after clean polls
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Suspense built in East Timor on
Monday as Dili joined in vote counting after weekend polls which EU
observers hailed as democratic.
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LETTER: Businessman Quiambao
clarifies issues, disputes news items
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LAST Friday, June 29, 2007, I
took time out to hold a small press briefing to clarify certain
misinterpreted facts relative to your item “Government contractor
charged with large-scale estafa”...
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