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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Gone to the dogs
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The Singson-Tiongson scandal, some people are saying, is one more
proof that this country has gone to the dogs.
Here is one of the high officials of the land, a
close ally of the President. He is the Deputy National Security
Adviser. Undersecretary Luis “Chavit” Singson, a former
provincial governor, has admitted beating up his former common-law
wife of 17 years, the mother of five of his children.
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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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Unite, not the
opposition, but the people
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Some quarters attach astro-logical importance to this the ninth day
of the ninth month of the ninth year of the new millennium. But this
corner has never set store by the pronouncements of
stargazers—most of whom cannot seem to use their fortune-telling
“skills” to steer their individual destinies anyway.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Out of the archives
into resurrection
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With the unity of the Liberal Party all but sealed except for the
mumblings of a few insurgents, Philippine politics has moved a step
closer to recapturing its pre-martial law mood and feel.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Good English not
everything
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GUANGZHOU, China: On my two-hour trip from this city to Zhuhai, I
read a lot of instructions in English that made me smile. However,
when I learned that Zhuhai, now a progressive city, was just a small
fishing village barely 29 years ago, I suddenly felt like crying.
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YEGAP
By Anna Marie Periquet
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India’s women entrepreneurs
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If there is one entrepreneur I look forward to seeing during our
annual YEGAP conferences, it is my dear colleague from India, Mukta
Nandini Jain, the Chairman of the Women Entrepreneurs Council of
Asia Pacific.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Ordinary life,
ordinary cares, extraordinary opportunity
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There’s something about being cloistered inside the house with
limited (read: basically nil) access to other adults and adult
conversation.
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ANALYSIS
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Gun culture thrives in Thai south’s climate of fear
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand: The portly assistant school principal pushes
aside his paperwork and from his old leather satchel draws a Chinese
pistol—his protection here in the violent Thai south.
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