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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Peso appreciation hurts business planning
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THE peso’s rapid appreciation is making it difficult for companies
to plan for next year. At last week’s annual conference of the
Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the opening-day
plenary speaker, Manuel V. Pangilinan of PLDT, took the cudgels for
exporters and other corporations that have been hurt by the
dollar’s precipitous decline.
The timing is impeccable as companies usually
undertake their annual planning sessions during the final three
months of the year. By this time, they should have a clearer picture
of how the key macroeconomic indicators would perform in the coming
year.
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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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Edith Burgos: Jonas
is still alive
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Jonas Burgos’s mother, Edith, continues to believe that her
abducted son is still alive. “But every minute that he remains
missing is torture for us,” she said at the Kapihan sa Sulo media
forum Saturday.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Try prayer power
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WHAT caused the Glorietta explosion? Was President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo involved in the bribery scandal surrounding the NBN-ZTE deal?
Should the President have given executive clemency to former
President Joseph Estrada, a convict of plunder?
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Who did the Glorietta
bombing?
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More than a week after the October 19 explosion at the upscale
Glorietta 2 mall in Makati, the question remains: Who did it? Or
what caused it?
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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House bill says a
‘he’ can be a ‘she’
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The Supreme Court recently ruled that a “he” cannot be a
“she.” The High Tribunal made the ruling in a petition of a
transvestite who wanted to be recognized as a female with a
corresponding change to a feminine name after undergoing sex change
operation.
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Edinburgh: Most haunted city in Europe
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Edinburgh, Scotland, with its grim blood-soaked history, horrific
murders and witch-hunts, gets its reputation as the most haunted
city in Europe.
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Myanmar leader
seeking to ease world pressure
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BANGKOK: Myanmar’s top general Than Shwe may yet meet democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi to curb harsh international criticism of the
junta, but he is unlikely to make any serious concessions, analysts
say.
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