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Friday, May 22, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Competitiveness down
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Published since 1989 by Switzerland’s Institute for Management
Development (IMD), of which the Asian Institute of Management is a
working partner, the annual World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is
a widely respected assessment of the world’s 57 most competitive
“countries.” Thirteen of the 57 are economies in the
Asia-Pacific. For years the USA has been No. 1. HK and Singapore
have been competing for No. 2 place in the WCY.
IMD should not say “countries” but
“territories.” This is because Hong Kong is a “special
administration region” of China. And Taiwan, though economically
and politically independent from the mainland, is not the entire
country of either the Republic of China or the People’s Republic
of China. HK was No. 3 in the 2008 WCY and now No. 2. Taiwan, No. 13
last year, is now down to No. 23.
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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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Escudero’s
transparency
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It is beginning to look like Joseph Estrada will make good on his
threat to run again for president in 2010. Some lawyers point out
that he never got to finish his term; others insist that the
constitutional prohibition applies only to “sitting” presidents.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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In the eye of the
storm is fear
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The world cowers in fear as an unseen enemy known as swine flu
killed scores of people and rendered thousands more dying in Mexico.
Strains of the killer disease crossed the border to the United
States and raced across the ocean to Europe and Asia.
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KAYA
NATIN
By Eirene Jhone E. Aguila
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A taste of heaven
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How would you like to live in a drug-free, jueteng-free place with
low incidence of crime, no electoral violence, no insurgency related
violence, no tribal war? Seems like a dream, huh? Most people who
wish to paint a bleak picture of the...
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AMBIEN
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Unity essential in
fight vs. climate disasters
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There is no clearer sign of climate change as it impinges on us than
our abbreviated summer this year with two powerful typhoons wreaking
havoc in the first half of May, a rainy Holy Week and unseasonable
cool weather intruding into summer temperatures.
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Memoirs of Zhao
Ziyang
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Ex-top official helped deposed party chief pen
book criticizing Tiananmen crackdown
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BEIJING: A former top official in China has said he and three other
officials secretly helped deposed leader Zhao Ziyang pen a memoir
which sharply criticizes the violent PLA crackdown on the 1989
Tiananmen protests.
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Another heir of Tenzing and Hillary
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Nepalese Sherpa climbs Everest for record 19th time
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KATHMANDU, Nepal: A Nepalese “Super Sherpa” conquered Mount
Everest for a breathtaking 19th time on Thursday, breaking his own
previous world record in a climb he dedicated to environmental
awareness.
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ANALYSIS
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Obama, Netanyahu take first steps down long road
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JERUSALEM: It is true that when US President Barack Obama and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first made eye contact in
Washington this week, their respective diplomats had already agreed
on the agenda and quite likely much of the outcome.
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