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Monday, January 14, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Help the senior-citizen poor
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Based on the figure 84,000,000 as the population of the Philippines
in 2007, and using 5 percent of the population as the conservative
magnitude of people 60 years old and older, we have 4.2 million
Filipino senior citizens. (Some other computations show there are
more of them.)
The best estimate of the magnitude of poverty is
25 percent of the total population. In SWS surveys, however, more
than 50 percent say they are poor. If it’s only 25 percent, then
there are some 1.2 million Filipino senior citizens who are poor.
The definition of this kind of poverty is that they are people who
sometimes miss meals and, if they are sick, don’t have the
medicine they need.
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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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Mar Roxas’s
demagoguery
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On any day of the week tens of thousands of vehicles running on
gasoline or diesel fuel clog every square meter of EDSA. So many of
them take to this main artery of Metro Manila an extraterrestrial
visitor might conclude that petroleum is dirt cheap in this country.
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OPEN
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By Random Jottings
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No selective amnesia on
Asean summit scandal
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IT is a painful fact that in the Philippines scandals linked to
financial skullduggery in the public sector tend to eventually fall
into the realms of selective amnesia—after the usual frantic bout
of congressional hand-wringing, of course.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Blessed man with a
funny name
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SEN. Barack Hussein Obama is proving cynics wrong. Positive change
is fast coming to America, maybe the world. There has never been any
man of color so close to becoming President of the world’s
remaining superpower nation.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The right time to
'Cha-cha'
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The Constitution is not etched in stone like The Ten Commandments.
However, the arguments being raised against Charter change make me
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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PRC-ROC peace
agreement
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parliamentary elections, relations between the Republic of China and
the People’s Republic of China will become closer than ever.
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US economic problems dominate campaign
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WARREN, Michigan: Republican frontrunner John
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blue collar state of Michigan Saturday, as the specter of recession
took center stage in the presidential race.
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