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Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Foreign investment
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Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo L. Neri says
more foreign investors are now choosing the Philippines as an
investment destination.
He notes that net foreign
investment has increased almost five times from what we were getting
in 2003-06.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
figures show that from a total of US$491 million in 2003, net
foreign direct investments (FDIs) went up to US$2.345 billion in
2006.
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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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Irony aboard a US
warship
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Named after a World War II battle
in the South Pacific, the USS Peleliu is in the Philippines on what
is officially described as a goodwill mission, which will take it to
Bicol and Mindanao.
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GROUND LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
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The ‘high
cost’ of rural education
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VISITING our town market midweek
last week to buy freshly harvested pineapple, I came upon a mother
and daughter who were selling vegetables and fruits and some root
crops.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Minority
presidents
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The Senate is having difficulty
electing its president. Manny Villar wants to retain his crown. So
does Aquilino Pimentel, previously also a Senate president.
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FROM THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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The 2010
presidential race
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By their body language, two
senators—Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party and Manny Villar of the
Nacionalista Party—have shown that they will run for president in
the 2010 national election.
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THE ETHICS OF LIFE SERIES
By Peter Singer, Project Syndicate
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A fair deal on
climate change
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The agreement on climate change
reached at Heiligendamm by the G8 leaders merely sets the stage
for the real debate to come: how will we divide up the diminishing
capacity of the atmosphere ...
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The Last
Interventionist
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When Tony Blair, having
procrastinated about his departure almost to the point of unreason,
finally gives up the British premiership this month, it will be to
the general relief not only of the British public as a whole,...
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World Bank
promises Russia a bright future
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The World Bank, which criticized
Russia for its weak financial and investment policies in the 90s,
its first decade of economic reforms, published new views on June 6
in the Russian Economic Report 14.
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