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Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Transparency vs. systemic corruption
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Official speeches at the Philippine Development Forum on March 26-27
in Clark, Pampanga, praised the Arroyo administration for achieving
phenomenal growth rates and introducing new activities called for in
past PDFs. But participants also chided the administration for not
having been transparent enough and, as a result, failing to achieve
much in combating systemic corruption.
The World Bank, the European Union, Germany
(which chairs EU), the Ayala Group’s Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala
and the rural poor representative Fr. Francis B. Lucas (from Infanta,
Quezon) praised the Arroyo administration’s achievements but also
stressed the need for the administration to be more zealous in
promoting transparency in government transactions if it really wants
to defeat corruption.
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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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THE
OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
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Let them eat bread
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THIS is not a paraphrase of “Let them eat cake,” attributed to
Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XIII (on the eve of the French
Revolution), when told the people had no bread.
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ABOVE
ALL THINGS
By Ramon Mabutas Jr.
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Hazardous child labor
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QUERY: Last year, my thirteen-year-old daughter left for the
capital-town of our province to look for work in order to pursue her
studies. Because she was pretty she was hired as a guest relations
officer in a hotel.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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The new Clark
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ON Good Friday, I drove through the new Clark-Subic Expressway built
reportedly at a cost of P27 billion. The length is not 50 kms as
reports indicate. It is more like 65 kms. on my odometer.
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LAW
AND PHILOSOPHY MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
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The political
significance of Holy Week
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THE Roman Catholic Church is a potently powerful political
institution in Philippine politics. This reality is neither
unsolicited nor unwelcome. More than in any other predominantly
Catholic country, citizens look to it for political solutions in the
form of moral guidance based on the Scriptures.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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Faulty question, fumbling answer
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SHORTLY before the Holy Week, a reader, Roquito Lorenzo, forwarded
to me YouTube links and a transcript of the much-talked-about
fumbling response of beauty contest aspirant Janina San Miguel in
the interview portion of the recent Binibining Pilipinas contest.
His e-mail came with the following question..
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ANALYSIS
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Iraq pipeline attack stokes fears over prices
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LONDON: An attack on a major oil pipeline in
southern Iraq caused a sharp spike in crude prices Thursday,
highlighting the underlying tensions in the market amid fears over
tight global supplies, analysts said.
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LETTER
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DPWH acted fast
THIS refers to the news article “Landslide
threat prompts evacuation of hundreds in Albay” by Manny Ugalde
(February 28) regarding the alleged complaint of Daraga municipal
mayor Cicero Triufante for the slow action of the DPWH in clearing a
damaged section of Maharlika Highway in Daraga, Albay.
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