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Thursday, January 03, 2008

 

EDITORIAL

We deserve more than an apology

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APOLOGIES are not enough for the arrogance and mindlessness displayed by the United States troops  that closed down for several nights a government hospital in Sulu Province.

Last month the Americans told Sulu officials to close every night a public hospital in the town of Panamao and prevented hospital personnel from treating patients after sundown. The information comes from Brig. Gen. Ruperto Pabustan, the chief of Filipino special forces in Jolo.

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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

 

EAST WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna

WE should all stop participating in this recent campaign to let former President Joseph Estrada run in the 2010 presidential elections. This is all nonsense. 

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HERE I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy

I DON’T want to be a killjoy but it is time you know about Article 318. It happens the whole year through and becomes acute in the countdown to the New Year when all the manghuhula fortune tellers come out...

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FROM THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario

IN a previous column, I wrote that the presidential ambition of opposition candidates in the 2010 election could be thwarted if former president Joseph Estrada comes into the political equation.

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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez

IN the first nine months of 2007, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) posted a net income of P2.52 billion. The profit exceeded the target for the whole of 2007 and showed an increase of 117.6 percent...

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GROUND LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos

NOT since I can remember has welcoming an incoming year in my part of the country been so subdued as to appear lackluster and so utterly unenthusiastic,...

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YANGON: Pausing in front of the fence around Yangon’s main park, a man points through the iron bars to show his two young children the statue inside.

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