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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Coming: Ombudsman Mercy’s ZTE hearings
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Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez will soon investigate and get to the
bottom of the claim of Senate star witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr.
that he was abducted.
And next week she will begin hearings of cases
filed against persons alleged to have committed corrupt practices in
relation to the ZTE national broadband project.
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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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Inconsistencies in
Lozada kidnapping tale
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Several administration figures presented themselves to the Senate
Monday as the joint inquiry on the ZTE-NBN controversy was resumed.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Officials have deadly
new amparo
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AMPARO means protection in Spanish. It is the courts’ and the
citizenry’s weapon to protect individuals from being killed
extra-judicially or forced to disappear by state agents.
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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A fine university,
but disputes are plenty
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The $130-million kickback allegedly demanded by former Comelec
chairman Benjamin Abalos is about 18 times the total income of the
Central Mindanao University (CMU) in 2006.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Ben Abalos should
come clean
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s men came in full force at
the Senate hearing yesterday on the National Broadband Network
project of ZTE Corp. of China which was aborted by her last year.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Brokers,
commissioners and a deal gone sour
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Why don’t we invite the ZTE officials over? Then ask them in an
executive session the following questions...
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ANALYSIS
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Rebel’s death may boost Timor stability
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JAKARTA: The attempted assassination of East
Timor’s president has exposed the fledgling nation’s inherent
instability but may also simplify the difficult task of trying to
bring lasting unity, analysts say.
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