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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Congratulations, President Ma
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The inauguration yesterday of Ma Ying-jeou as president of Taiwan
will vastly improve relations between Beijing and Taipei and raise
them to a high level of cooperation never seen before. After eight
years, the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party has again become the
leading political and ideological force on the island. The
pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been
rejected by the people.
It is something for the Filipinos to rejoice
about. Our government cannot officially send messages of
congratulations to Mr. Ma because formally the only China our
Republic has state to state relations with is the People’s
Republic of China (PRC). We have no diplomatic relations with
Taiwan’s Republic of China (ROC), which is the present
non-communist generation’s embodiment of the Republic of China
that the Father of Modern China Dr. Sun Yat Sen (and the Kuomintang)
founded. But we do have bilateral relations with Taiwan through the
Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) and the Taipei Economic
and Cultural Office (TECO).
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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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Tet helps foil
BIR,
Customs racket
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The government offers monetary rewards to informants who alert the
authorities to, among others, big-time tax evaders and similar
crooks.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Esperon the Fearsome
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In a statement titled “War and Peace Adviser” Amina Rasul, lead
convenor of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy, writes
from Marawi City...
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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CARP, a program of no
winners
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Case studies on the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
should start in Lubao, Pampanga. There is no other place in the
country that is as richly associated with agrarian reform as this
town.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Backtracking Senate
witnesses
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The reported pussyfooting of the new witness in the Senate
blue-ribbon committee’s inquiry into the aborted $329-million
national broadband network (NBN) deal underlines the need for a
witness to execute a sworn statement before he could appear in
investigations in aid of legislation (are they, really?).
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Laguna massacre
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Robbers fatally shot and killed nine Laguna bank employees in the
head in what could be the most gruesome episode in the
Philippines’ history of bank heists. A tenth victim, the manager
of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. branch in Cabuyao town,
eventually died from his wounds.
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ANALYSIS
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China, Russia boost their strategic relations
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MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is
scheduled to pay his first foreign visit to Kazakhstan and China
this week.
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LETTER
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Vast majority are with Gloria
By V. Andrea
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