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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Territorial baselines: Be quick but careful
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God must really be keeping close watch over the Philippines and the
Filipinos. Territorial baselines bills are pending in Congress—consolidated
and passed in the House on second reading last December. But, as
revealed by Rep. Antonio Cuenco, head of the House foreign relation
committee, action on the bill has been stopped because the
Department of Foreign Affairs had told Congress of China’s
objections to the proposed law. He also recounted that a Chinese
embassy official had informed him passage of the bill would be
considered an unfriendly act by the People’s Republic of China.
If the law had been enacted and not frozen for
fear that China would take offense, we would have given up “an
almost colossal” part of our territory. This is according to Sen.
Miriam Defensor Santiago, who takes pride in being an expert in,
among other things, international law, and is the Senate foreign
relations committee chairwoman.
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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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Rice price shock, a
police matter
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As more evidence comes in, it is now becoming clear that the rice
price shock is more of a police matter than anything else. However,
the panic some quarters tried to whip up—for obvious political
reasons—suited the racketeers just fine. Consumer fears, albeit
baseless, did succeed in driving rice prices even higher.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Home of the cowed,
land of the timid
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IT was noon of Saturday, March 29. The sun was burning through the
GI sheets of the barangay chapel of Concepcion, Lubao, Pampanga, but
the sweating crowd in the chapel was unmindful of the heat.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Good news and bad
news
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I KNOW, newspaper readers generally like news articles and columns
that border on scurrilous accusations. The stronger the criticism,
the more readers it gets. Who cares to read articles about
performance when bad news sells?
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Restore checks and
balances
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The Philippine constitutional system includes a concept called
separation of powers. The three branches of government—the
legislative, the executive and the judicial—are supposed to share
power co-equally.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Hope and worry in
Pag-Asa
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THE Philippine military is set to begin improvements on a 1.4 kilometer
airstrip and soldiers barracks on the Philippine-claimed Pag-Asa
(International name: Thitu) Island, in the disputed Spratlys.
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NKorea cuts ties with
Seoul govt, digs heels in
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SEOUL: By labelling South Korea’s new
president a traitor, North Korea on Tuesday effectively declared it
is cutting ties with Lee Myung-Bak’s conservative government,
analysts said.
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