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Monday, October 06, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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OFW support crucial amid US credit crunch
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IF there is any lesson we can learn from past economic crises, it is
that the Filipino family will find a way to cope. This is why
prognostications about the impact of the ongoing US financial
turmoil on overseas Filipino worker (OFW) remittances are misguided.
If we looked at the last biggest crisis the
Philippines faced, domestic consumption by households actually held
up relatively well. Maybe not as robust as before the crisis, but as
in good times, personal consumption expenditures remained the main
driver of the economy.
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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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Strategic blunder
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YouTube is a video-sharing website where users can upload, view and
share video clips. However, uploading videos containing pornography,
nudity, defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and
material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited.
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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GSIS hedging its bets on
investment front
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NOT satisfied with what he perceives as the Government Service
Insurance System (GSIS) hedging its responses with regard to its
hedge fund investments, labor leader and former senator and Ernesto
Herrera—who launched an initial salvo against the state run entity
last week—is not letting go.
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BIZZ FIZZ
By Rene Martel
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Watchdog failing to keep
watch
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THE tough stance taken by the National Telecommunications Commission
(NTC)—though it has to be said, prodded on seemingly only by the
congressional inquiry that yielded serious anomalies with regard to
the awarding of...
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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No humanitarian
crisis in Mindanao
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Columnist Amina Rasul’s Durian column piece for Sunday missed the
deadline. But she wrote about a really urgent and critical issue
that must be aired at once. So, today I am yielding my space to her.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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The first twelve
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JENNILYN, then five, was asked one day by her mother to buy fish
while at Central Market in Manila. When she went back, her mother
was no longer there.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Author! Author!
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Sen. Edgardo Angara has been promoting science and technology but I
never realized that his advocacy has found some disciples in some
unexpected quarters in the Senate until I read Senate Bill No. 2644.
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LETTER
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Ban all smuggled food not just toxic milk
The government has dealt with melamine tainted
milk and milk products from China. Why not ban all smuggled food
products?
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