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Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Tourism: Heed Sec.
Teves
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The President signed in Lapu-Lapu
City Tuesday the National Tourism Policy Act of 2009 (R.A. 9593).
What the new law does is pave the way for the country’s tourism
industry to become a major engine of growth in investment,
employment, economic advancement and human and social development.
There is no doubt that in the
most successful economies the tourist industry has been a great
contributor to the surge in economic activity, household income and
employment.
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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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FROM THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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Noli, the
‘political sphinx’
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In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a winged creature
with the head and breast of a woman and the body of a lion guarding
the gates of the city of Thebes.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Global honors for
Weber Shandwick
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ONE of the world’s leading public relations
agencies, Weber Shandwick—with a significant operation in the
Philippines—has been named global agency of the year by The Holmes
Report,...
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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The main issues of
the 2010 election
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It was good for ABS-CBN ANC to stage Monday the
so-called leadership forum with five presumptive presidential
candidates—Senators Francis “Chiz” Escudero, Manuel Araneta
“Mar” Roxas, and Richard “Dick” Gordon,...
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PROMETHEUS BOUND
By Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.
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Joan Hinton:
People’s scientist
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Living in a dairy farm near the Chinese capital is
Joan Hinton, an American nuclear scientist who worked for the
Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb.
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Crops to combat
climate change
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In addition to rice and corn, Cagayan Valley (Region
II, northeast of the Philippine archipelago) farmers are also major
producers of legumes—groundnut (peanut),...
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Coral Triangle
could die by century’s end: WWF
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MANADO, Indonesia: Climate change could wipe out the
world’s richest ocean wilderness by the end of the century without
drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, environmental group WWF
said Wednesday.
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ANALYSIS
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Leading Kashmiri
separatist defies
comrades’ India vote boycott policy
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BARAMULLA, India: A leading Kashmiri separatist broke
ranks with his movement on Wednesday by contesting a seat in the
revolt-hit Indian region, defying a long-standing policy of
boycotting general elections.
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