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Thursday, September 06, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Our skewed
immigration policy |
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You would think that an archipelago of 7,1000
islands, stretching 1,100 miles north to south, would have a
professional career immigration service to protect the country’s
national security and defend its sovereignty.
You would expect that a country
with a coastline twice as long as that of the United States’,
whose shores are extremely porous and vulnerable to alien intrusion,
would be amply protected 24 hours a day by a security umbrella using
modern hardware and technology.
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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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EAST
AND WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Chief Justice
Puno’s crusade takes off
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If extrajudicial killings—or
salvaging—are eventually eliminated from the state’s arsenal of
counterinsurgency weapons, give the credit to Supreme Court Chief
Justice Reynato S. Puno.
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HERE I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Trust your nanny
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It made it to the headline for
about a day and then no more. We were busy with Malu Fernandez and
Willie Revillame. Geraldine Palma just turned seven when she was
kidnapped on August 11, 2007.
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FROM THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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The TV game shows
and their fabulous prizes
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Something good has come out of
the “word war” between TV game show hosts Willie Revillame of
ABS-CBN and Joey de Leon of GMA-7.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Happy rigors of
the PGS
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ISA’s Philippines 2030 Road Map
charts the way Filipinos can reach 2030 as a happily productive,
prosperous and respected democratic society.
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Change in the air
for the APEC leaders’ club
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SYDNEY: You’re a leader who’s
feeling the political heat. Time is running out to save your
administration, and your reputation in history. Think you’ll be
pushed around if you pop off to a regional summit?
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Saving Butuanon
language
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Any language with fewer than
300,000 speakers is regarded by international linguistics experts as
endangered. The Butuanon language at present can only be spoken by
fewer than 500 youngsters in Butuan itself.
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Credible
Japan-Germany antiwarming tie-up
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In their meeting in Tokyo on
Wednesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela
Merkel agreed to cooperate in creating an effective, post-Kyoto
Protocol framework to fight global warming,...
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