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Thursday, February 07, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Where’s Rodolfo
Lozada?
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An important Senate witness
arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Tuesday afternoon,
was met by several groups of welcomers, but promptly disappeared,
according to his distressed family and friends. So where is Rodolfo
Lozada Jr.?
Lozada, chief executive officer
of the government-run Philippine Forest Corp., left the country on
Jan. 30, hours before a Senate hearing on the $329.5-million NBN
national broadband deal. The media said he was Sen. Panfilo
Lacson’s new witness for the NBN hearing. Lozada knew details
about irregularities in the project, the senator claimed.
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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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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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What now for JdV?
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One analysis on the ouster of five-termer Jose de
Venecia as speaker and his replacement by Davao Congressman Prospero
Nograles is that they were nothing more than a manifestation of a
struggle...
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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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US reduces
military aid to RP
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We are not really surprised by the report that the
Bush administration is lowering its military aid to the Philippines
for the coming budget year. In any reckoning,...
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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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The rationale of
the direct hiring system
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Many employers who want to hire workers directly from
the Philippines are up in arms against a memorandum circular of the
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) requiring them
to post performance...
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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The direct hiring
system does not make sense
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On Dec. 18, 2007, the Philippine Overseas Employment
Administration (POEA), the government entity set up to regulate the
deployment of workers abroad, issued Memorandum Circular No. 04
(MC-04),...
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GROUND
LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
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The blindside of
Philippine education
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CEBU education officials may be feeling they got a
slap on the face when the government reported that four of the
province’s schools “were counted among the 10 lowest-performing
schools” in the country for school year...
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ANALYSIS
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Tension, disaster,
turbulence–welcome to the Year of the Rat
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HONG KONG: The Year of the Rat threatens to see a
build-up of international tensions, natural and air disasters, and a
more turbulent stock market, soothsayers and analysts say.
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LETTER
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A fair presentation
CONGRATULATIONS on the Special Report on “Generics Medicine Law”
(February 3, 2008).
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