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Sunday, March 01, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Long live Asean! |
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EVERYONE will be congratulating Thai Prime Minister Abhisit
Vejjajiva for his government’s successful hosting of the 14th
Asean Summit. Unlike our Asean Summit in Cebu in 2007, there have
been no allegations of corruption in the procurement and
installation of lampposts in the resort town of Cha-am, in
Petchaburi province, where the summit is being held and will end
this afternoon.
For some reason, some wire reports about the
summit are datelined Hua Hin, a district in Prachuap Khiri Khan
province, located 295 kilometers south of Bangkok. Hua Hin is famous
as a resort town. The beach at Hua Hin is 5 kilometers long, and
full of white sand and clear water, ideal for swimming. Cha-am is a
district in Phetchaburi province and Cha-am Beach is as beautiful as
neighboring Hua Hin Beach. Cha-am is located approximately 163
kilometers from Bangkok, 40 kilometers south of the Phetchaburi
capital and 20 kilometers north of Hua Hin.
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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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CENTER
oF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Doha deferred
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IN Davos, President Gloria Arroyo joined the chorus calling for the
completion of the Doha Development Round negotiations.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Education’s jerks
and turgid ideas
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When Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee talks about education, he
speaks with considerable authority. He was once Education secretary
(under Bush, 41) and also served as president of the University of
Tennessee.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Fair weather friends
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WE should probably be grateful that two politicians angling for the
presidency have withdrawn their support for the Right to Reply bill.
This proposed law, already passed by the Senate, and is pending
approval in the House, would...
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Forgetting EDSA 1
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On February 25, the Philippines commemorated the 23rd anniversary of
the People Power Revolution that restored democracy to the country
after two decades under former President Ferdinand Marcos.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Sex tourism and
abortion
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When the social workers, police from Limay, Bataan, and the mother
of two missing children, 13- and 14-year-old, all from Limay, Bataan,
arrived in Alaminos, Pangasinan, last December 2008, they expected
the local police to have a...
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News analysis
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Unity deal great leap for Palestinians
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CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions agreed to work
for reconciliation among Palestinians at a plenary national unity
dialogue held in Cairo Thursday.
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