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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Let’s multiply, not count, our blessings
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THE World Bank’s recent report that East Asia will get by in the
face of a downturn in the US is comforting. This is among the first
official recognition that the region is indeed decoupling from a
US-led global economy, with intra-regional trade providing a cushion
to weakness in other major export markets.
As leaders of an important section of the
region, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), approve
the group’s charter, they can find support in the Washington-based
lender’s forecast of robust growth for East Asia as a whole.
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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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Yet another
embarrassment
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A Manila daily—not The Manila Times—bannered the other day a
report, purportedly from the World Bank, claiming that economic
growth in the Philippines has been reducing the number of poor
Filipinos.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Congress for chastity
education
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More and more twelve-year old girls are getting pregnant without
being forcibly—not just statutorily—raped. Some resort to
abortion. Others get married. Often the poor girls’ lives are
ruined. Their boy friends also suffer.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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So much BS for so
little money
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Nakakahiya. That is the reaction a reasonable man would have
reading yesterday’s headlines about the World Bank suspending $232
million in loans to the Philippines because of allegations of
corruption in major highway projects spanning north and south of the
archipelago.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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JPEPA’s chances now
brighter
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The change in tune of Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago on the
Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) indicates
that it will have a better chance of being endorsed by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations which she leads.
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Japan starts fingerprinting foreigners
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TOKYO: Japan began fingerprinting and
photographing foreigners entering the country Tuesday in an effort
to tighten security, despite concerns by rights groups and business
leaders.
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Malaysian ruling party promotes national unity
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s ruling party on
Monday kicked off its annual talks with plans to soothe troubled
race relations in the multi-ethnic country ahead of national
elections tipped for early next year.
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LETTER
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What moral revolution?
Your news item of November 12, 2007 entitled,
“De Venecia renews call for moral revolution,” gave me a
post-Halloween creep....
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