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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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It’s a good treaty
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We hope the Senate plenary decides to ratify the Japan-Philippine
Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) with the conditional terms
written in the joint report of the Committee on Foreign Relations
and the Committee on Trade.
Ratification—even with the conditions stated
in the joint report submitted to the plenary by Senators Miriam
Defensor Santiago for foreign affairs and Mar Roxas for trade—is
better than no action or killing the agreement.
This is the first ever case of a treaty whose
Senate ratification is being given conditionally.
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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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RP panic-buying jacks
up world rice prices
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THE Philippines is not only an exporter of rice—it has actually
become the world’s biggest buyer of the cereal in the world
market.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Saludo will do his
rigorous best
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WHEN Ric Saludo joined the government as undersecretary at the
Presidential Management Staff in 2001, I wondered if he would last.
I gave him only a year in that place others have called “the snake
pit that is Malacañang.”
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Time to revisit the
autonomy law
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IT is a recognized principle in fiscal management that appropriation
follows function. Thus, when many services were devolved from the
national government to local governments by the Local Government
Code, the funding for these services were correspondingly
transferred to the LGUs.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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The perpetual suspect
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THE involvement of opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson in the murder of a
prominent public relations practitioner is being revived a good 25
months before the presidential elections in 2010.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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A crisis from heaven
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IT’S the worst crisis of its kind in more than 30 years. This came
from Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who has been crusading for many
worthwhile causes, reacting to the current global food crisis. Sachs
added that the crisis is threatening a lot of governments.
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FEATURES
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Love, sex and the women of Brazil
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Are TV soap operas downsizing Brazilian families at very low
costs?
Libidinous Brazilian women push latest
erotica fair to new heights
By Marc Burleigh, Agence France-Presse
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