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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Business blues and the red-tape act
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On Monday, the Philippine government again received unsolicited
advice from one of its biggest foreign benefactors, the
International Finance Corporation (IFC): Be more business friendly
to make your country more globally competitive and, for heaven’s
sake, please start implementing the much-publicized Anti-Red Tape
Act which the President signed on June 18, 2007.
The IFC is the World Bank’s investment arm for
the private sector. This 2008-2009 fiscal year, it will lend
Philippine business firms $564 million, which is more than four
times the $130 million it loaned us for FY 2007-2008. The IFC loans
will mainly be given to the infrastructure, agribusiness, power and
financial sectors. These sectors are vital to the country’s
socio-economic development and poverty-eradication effort, areas of
business activity that are most in need of improvement.
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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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Bracing for ‘silent
tsunami’
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Skyrocketing oil prices, the fight over control of Meralco and other
issues have consigned the rice-price shock, which first hit the
country late March, to the inside pages.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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JDV can be a St.
Thomas à Becket
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The poet T. S Eliot wrote the play Murder in the Cathedral. One of
the most memorable lines in theater literature is found there:
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed
for the wrong reason.”
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Marginalizing climate
change
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Celebrations of environmental milestones often take the form of
Mardi Gras. There is street dancing, outlandish paeans to Mother
Earth, poetry and music.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Two-faced gov’t
policy on socialized housing
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It looks like a case of the right hand not knowing what the left
hand is doing. I am referring to the legislature trying to
restructure socialized and low-cost housing loans while a joint
venture involving a government housing corporation is foreclosing
52,000 housing units.
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Taiwan ruling party chief in
China for landmark meeting
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BEIJING: The head of Taiwan’s ruling party arrived in China on
Monday for the highest-level contact with the communist mainland’s
leadership in 60 years.
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Where was the Filipino Flag first unfurled?
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One of the historical errors being perpetuated
in history textbooks and commemorative rites is the place where the
Philippine flag was first displayed. One signboard in Cavite claims
that the national standard was first raised in Alapan, Imus, Cavite,
on May 28, 1898.
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