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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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A recipe for Thai-style ‘political
stability’
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The fate that has befallen Samak Sundarajev, the most recent former
prime minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, could led some Filipinos
to enviously think that Thai democracy has reached maturity.
But the way Samak lost his job could have been a
subplot in a P. G. Wodehouse or James Wilcox novel. Accused of being
nothing more than a surrogate for ousted (and criminally accused)
former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Samak was elected PM by a
coalition of his own party made up largely of Thaksin’s people and
other parties whose members were welldisposed toward Thaksin.
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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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POLICY
PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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A law against age
discrimination
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CAN age have something to do with one’s ability to do a job? I
would have to say it could. But don’t get me wrong. I am not
advocating age discrimination. I am in fact very much against it.
But age can have a bearing in a worker’s...
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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Joker Arroyo coins
‘presidential crab’
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The Senate is getting to be interesting. Over there, Sen. Joker
Arroyo has just coined a new phrase to characterize the quarrel
among its members. He describes those wanting to investigate the C-5
controversy by the Senate as “presidential crabs.”
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Capt. Regie’s new
sacrificial mission
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Regie was a captain of the Philippine Army and a Scout Ranger. I met
him last year on the evening flight to Cebu. He was going there to
complete his training. He topped his class, and after graduation he
became the protocol officer of...
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MEN
& EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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The LP should reinvent
itself
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The cavalier manner in which Senate President Manny Villar has
dismissed the Liberal Party as the least of his worries in 2010
should serve as a wake-up call for the second oldest political party
in the Philippines.
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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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You can live to 70 years old
and up
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I came across an interesting news item the other
day about Japan’s hitting a new record high in the number of
centenarians. Its health ministry says that as of this month, there
are 36, 276 citizens who are 100 years old and above, 86 percent of
them women.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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President Arroyo to address
CEOs
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President Arroyo will address corporate CEOs and the investment
community tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17, at 10 a.m. at the Rizal
Ballroom of the Makati Shangri-la Hotel. The event is a jointly
attended by the Manila Overseas Press Club and the Bangko
Sentral’s Investors Forum.
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LETTER
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BSP clarifies bases for its policy stance
This refers to the article entitled “Put off further rate hikes,
Angara tells Bangko Sentral” which appeared in the 11 September
2008 issue of The Manila Times. That and similar articles in several
newspapers of that day quoted Sen. Angara
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