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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Consumerist patriotism
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At last, the No. 1 Economist of the Arroyo administration has begun
to sound less eager to please the outside world and come back to the
essential virtue of patriotism. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
did so in her speech last Friday at the general assembly and
induction of officers of the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI).
The occasion was also the venue of the launching of the “Buy Pinoy-Buy
Local” campaign being waged by the FPI and the Federation of
Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FFCCCI).
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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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May Day in USA
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LOS ANGELES: The United States is one of the few countries in the
world that does not observe May 1 as Labor Day.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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The abuse of human
rights councils and commissions
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THE growing global trend is not just to subject citizens to human
rights abuse. Even human rights councils and commissions are being
“abused” here and in the United Nations.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Vet the justices
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The US Senate’s confirmation hearings on nominees to posts of
federal justices and the US Supreme Court are any or all the
following: messy, divisive, intrusive.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Dance time with
Nene!
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Knee-jerk oppositionists are whaling away at the proposed shift to a
federal system as Malacañang’s way of shifting attention away
from controversial issues. But wait! Wasn’t Senate Minority Leader
Nene Pimentel the initiator of this latest move to amend the
Constitution?
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Mindanao’s referee
is walking out
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Muslim aid workers are worried that the economic and social gains of
four years of relative peace would vanish when foreign peace
monitors withdraw prematurely from the tumultuous southern Mindanao.
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Food crisis bites in Vietnam
despite economic boom
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HANOI: On the outskirts of Vietnam’s capital, where modern
industrial parks eat into centuries-old rice paddies, farmer’s
daughter Le Thi Luyen is struggling to carve out a living with a
factory job.
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