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Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Sounds familiar
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THE accusation that members of the Batangas Police Provincial Office
may have summarily killed three to four suspects in the Rizal Commercial Banking
Corp. Cabuyao, Laguna, branch robbery sounds familiar. Police
officers have been implicated in similar killings before.
The human-rights commission chairman said that
its initial investigation showed that policemen could have rubbed
out the four suspects in the May 16 robbery and killings. “There
is reasonable certainty to believe that it was a case of a rubout,
an out-and-out execution of the three men,” commissioner Leila de
Lima told reporters at the House of Representatives where she
testified at a hearing.
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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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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Trouble at Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas
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We are reluctant to write negatively about the affairs of the Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) whose delicate mandate is to supervise
banks and financial institutions. But we are concerned. We have
sources who say that there are some policies of the BSP that need to
be reviewed for the sake of public interest.
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Lost in Korea
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There are so many Koreans in the Philippines; one has to visit Korea
to figure out why.
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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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Politicians as
product endorsers
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I caught on TV the other night some flashes of a news report about
high-profile politicians coming under criticism for endorsing
popular Filipino products.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.
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Ka Bel’s electric dream
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Crispin Beltran was laid to rest yesterday. The labor leader and
advocate of the poor was 75 when he fell down a ladder while fixing
their roof. He has been the consumer’s champion against high
electricity rates inside and outside of Congress.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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The SC and the AEDC
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The Supreme Court has dismissed for lack of merit the petition for
mandamus of Asia’s Emerging Dragon Corp. (AEDC), claiming the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport International Passenger Terminal
III (NAIA IPT III) Project...
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The 60th anniversary of UN peacekeeping
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This year, the annual International Day of UN
Peacekeepers also marks the 60th anniversary of UN peacekeeping. Six
decades ago today, the Security Council established our first
peacekeeping mission.
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FEATURE
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Uncovering Indonesia’s hidden shame
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SRUWEN BOYOLALI, Indonesia: In the bloody
history of the 20th century, the killing fields scattered through
the lush greenery of Indonesia’s islands are a rarely mentioned
footnote.
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