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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Abalos elects retirement
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COMELEC Chairman Benjamin Abalos’s resignation ends his public
career but not the public interest in the controversial contract
between the Philippine Government and the Chinese firm ZTE Corp. for
a $330-million national broadband project for the exclusive use of
the state and its agencies.
Abalos said in his resignation statement that
his leaving was not an admission of guilt but was meant to spare the
commission from further controversy over the deal.
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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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Pathetic broadband
service
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BROADBAND is on everyone’s mouth nowadays because of the NBN-ZTE
fiasco that has yet to be resolved. Here’s an eye-opener about the
current broadband services being provided by local telcos—well, at
least one local telco to one of its customers.
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EAST
AND WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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2010 at the heart of
Senate probe
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It is easy to some people to understand the noise arising from the
now-waning investigation of Sgt. Vidal Doble and the still hot issue
of the national broadband network.
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Cebu’s interesting
media month
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September is media month in Cebu. The whole month is Broadcasters’
Month while the week within which September 21 falls is Press
Freedom Week.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Estrada wants guilty
verdict overturned
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Lawyer Rene Saguisag has filed a motion for reconsideration which in
effect seeks to overturn the Sandigan anti-graft court’s
September 12 guilty verdict against former President Joseph Estrada.
He anchored his motion on five grounds...
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MEN &
EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Bizarre twists
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Geraldine Palma, a 7-year-old pupil of an exclusive school in Pasig
City, was reported missing in the middle of August this year. On
August 16, a body of a child, stuffed inside a suitcase, was found
near the North Harbor in Tondo, Manila.
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SWS conducts ethical
surveys
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This pertains to the article of Gonzalo M. Jurado, “Objective
Analysis Versus Subjective Rumor-Mongering” (Manila Times,
September 26, 2007), which criticizes the Social Weather Stations.
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Japan breaks up its lucrative post office
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TOKYO: Japan broke up its sprawling post office Monday, creating a
new commercial bank with the world’s largest savings at the start
of a long privatization process set to reshape the country’s
finance industry.
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