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Monday, April 14, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Road is clear for fiscal stimulus
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THE double-digit rise in both exports and foreign direct investments
(FDI) at the start of the year is welcome news.
According to the National Statistics Office (NSO),
February shipments of electronics, the country’s main
dollar-earning commodity, sustained its growth from January.
Similarly, sales to the US, the Philippines’ largest market,
rebounded, posting a double-digit increase year-on-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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The return of the
‘idro’
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AS a kid from Manila vacationing in my mother’s home province of
Leyte many, many summers ago, I remember being startled by my
provincial playmates one lazy afternoon.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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A long hot summer
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HERE’S another cockeyed optimist signing on, not quite immature
but no longer green incurably. It may not look it to many, but
President Gloria Arroyo looks as if she will weather the “Gloria
Resign” storm. All the well-laid plans towards forcing her
untimely departure from office are beginning to unravel.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Don’t blame
President Arroyo
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For having total control of the votes of almost 80 percent of the
membership of the House of Representatives.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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House should now
relent on ‘generics only’ provision
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NOW that Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd, with the full backing
of Malacañang, has withdrawn his proposal for the inclusion of the
“generics only” provision in the long-delayed Quality and
Affordable Medicine Act...
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ANALYSIS
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Nepal Maoists score strongly
in early poll results
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KATHMANDU, Nepal: Nepal’s ex-rebel Maoists
were emerging on Saturday as the surprise single biggest victors in
early results for landmark elections to rebuild the Himalayan nation
after a bloody civil war.
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