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Monday, October 08, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Smile, you’re on police camera
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WE were informed Friday by new National Police chief Avelino Razon
Jr. that the PNP had installed at least 56 closed-circuit television
cameras (CCTV) in strategic places in Metro Manila to monitor street
crimes and identify street criminals.
Almost simultaneously, Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim
announced a new scheme by the Manila Police District authorities to
take pictures of passengers before they board provincial buses.
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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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ABC apology not
enough
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he US network ABC’s apology for the disparaging remark made
against Philippine-trained medical professionals in the September 30
episode of Desperate Housewives does not satisfy the National
Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA)—and it
certainly should not.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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A bill against child punishment
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IT’S the sort of legislature that should get pupils in every
classroom across the archipelago banging their desks in glowing
approval. And it comes not a moment too late.
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INSIDE CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Noynoy knows not the
legislative process
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Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd should not have stood up last
week to speak about the bill seeking to reset the barangay and Sangguniang
Kabataan elections to 2009.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Commercialism
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Sunday’s Manny Pacquiao-Marco Antonio Barrera fight is a
classic example of crass commercialism by the television station
that bagged the contract, GMA Network Channel 7.
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Desperate Americans
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OUTPOURING of protests from Filipinos expressing vehement
indignation and outrage over the US show Desperate Housewives
continues unabated. In a recent episode...
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US diplomacy takes high road through Beijing
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WASHINGTON: For the United States, China
increasingly holds the keys to unlocking diplomatic doors blocking
progress on some of the world’s most testing challenges.
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ANALYSIS
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Poverty looms as threat to Myanmar junta
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BANGKOK: For now the streets of Yangon are quiet after Myanmar’s
bloody crackdown on protesters, but simmering public discontent over
crushing poverty is likely to spark more civil unrest, experts say.
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