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Friday, February 20, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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The USA and Indonesia
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FEW Filipinos (utterly few relative to our 90-plus million
population) give a hoot about our country being left out of US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Asian itinerary. But there is
a reason to feel bad about it. Specially since this is the first
time ever that a new American secretary of state has chosen to use
her first trip abroad to punctuate the importance of
Asia—especially China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia/Asean.
We should however rejoice that Secretary Clinton
has stressed the importance of Asean/Indonesia in this historic
trip. We are, after all, an important part of Asean—in fact one of
its founders. And China, Japan and South Korea are our largest and
most important trading partners, beside the USA.
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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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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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In the case of a US Marine convicted of raping a Filipina,
apologists for Uncle Sam present an array of arguments.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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How to spoil a good
game
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Graft and corruption is prevalent in government. It is common
knowledge.
How do you catch the thieves? Few people could
provide ready answers.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine
Louise Viernes
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I am the richest
person in the world
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Whenever I feel the heat of summer sunshine on my skin, I become
nostalgic for the past. As I inhale the warm air that heralds
summer, I also breathe in the new wisdom I’ve gained for myself.
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KAYA
NATIN
By Harvey S. Keh
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Kaya Natin! brings good
governance to Laguna and Batangas
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More than a thousand college students and teachers attended the Kaya
Natin! Caravan of Good Governance held on Friday at the Malayan
Colleges Laguna and the First Asia Institute for Technology and
Humanities in Tanauan City, Batangas.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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The fate of Dingras
Church
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In the matter of the Dingras church in Ilocos Norte that presumably
the parish or archdiocese wants to raze, we come back to the
question of the rights of ownership of buildings or properties that,
regardless of their being titled to...
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ANALYSIS
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Recession-hit Japan headed for political shake-up
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TOKYO: With its economy in deep recession and its government in
disarray, Japan may this year face the biggest shake-up of its
political landscape in the post-war era, analysts say.
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ANALYSIS
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Obama faces uphill struggle in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Barack Obama’s decision to send more
US troops to Afghanistan may not be enough to halt the momentum of a
violent insurgency that dominates large swathes of the impoverished
country, experts said on Wednesday.
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