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                    [Title] => World-class skills need world-class pay
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It has happened before with our doctors.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 392374 [Title] => Magna carta sa media Hiniling ni Pichay [Summary] => Hiniling kahapon ni Team Unity senatorial candidate Prospero Pichay ang pagbuo ng mga magna carta para sa mga mamamahayag kasabay nang patuloy na kontrobersiya hinggil sa pagpatay sa mga miyembro ng media at aktibista.

"Ilalatag ng isang magna carta ang batayan ng indibwal na mga karapatan ng mamamahayag at maituturing na bahagi ng Konstitusyon," sabi pa ni Pichay na kongresista rin ng Surigao del Sur.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369641 [Title] => Former police general-turned farmer bats for country-wide farm modernization [Summary] => A former police general-turned-farmer from the town of Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan has suggested that stakeholders in the economy of the different congressional districts and provinces must come together to formulate comprehensive farm modernization programs as key strategy in fighting poverty in the country.

The large vast track of idle and farm lands in the country must be broken down into more manageable economic units for more focused and doable farm and fishery modernization programs, retired Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco said in a press interview.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342528 [Title] => RP mango can now reach distant markets – study [Summary] => Successful – again.

For the second time, a scientific technology has proven that Philippine "Carabao" mango can reach distant markets in good condition.

In the first trial done at the Food Terminal, Inc. (FTI) in Taguig, Metro Manila, mango used in the research lasted for 28 days (Feb. 18-March 18, 2006) with the application of the controlled atmosphere (CA) technology.

In the second trial, also conducted at FTI, the mango lasted for 29 days (May 13-June 11).
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321277 [Title] => Where there’s smoke, there’s fire [Summary] => Employees are getting fidgety over goings-on at the UCPB-CIIF Finance and Development Corp., the company tasked by Malacañang to hold on to around P1 billion in earnings from the coco-levy fund for relending to coconut farners and entrepreneurs.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134315 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 314586 [Title] => This veterinarian breeds wild boars in captivity [Summary] => Dr. Juanito Pio Lledo, provincial veterinarian of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, breeds wild boars to have a deeper understanding of this disappearing species and, with outside assistance, conduct genetic profiling for future scientific studies.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 223124 [Title] => Tobacco farmers to hold summit in Ilocos Norte [Summary] => BATAC, Ilocos Norte – Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr. and Quedancor president Nelson Buenaflor will head the guests in the Tobacco Farmers’ Summit conference that will be held here Monday.

The summit, organized by the Philippine Association of Tobacco-Based Cooperatives (PATCO) and Federation of Free Farmers (FFF), comes at a time when tobacco farming is at a new low.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767161 [AuthorName] => Teddy Molina [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210053 [Title] => Velasco lauds livelihood project for policemen [Summary] => Metro Manila police chief Deputy Director General Reynaldo Velasco lauded yesterday the Department of Agriculture (DA) for continuing the livelihood project for policemen, which is new being implemented nationwide.

Velasco was the head of the Philippine National Police (PNP) comptrollership when he initiated the project after finding out that 31.9 percent of policemen are living below the poverty line and 32.7 percent are within or a just a little over the poverty line.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805358 [AuthorName] => Non Alquitran [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191347 [Title] => Tobacco farmers back Montemayor for DAR chief [Summary] => NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur – A tobacco farmers’ cooperatives’ federation has joined the clamor for the appointment of former Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor to head the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).

In an endorsement letter to President Arroyo, the Philippine Association of Tobacco-Based Cooperatives (PATCO) cited Montemayor’s "continuing concern for the welfare of the farmers (and) his very approachable nature" which had reportedly made the group feel at home with the government.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191005 [Title] => Hog raisers threaten to stop meat supply to Metro Manila [Summary] => LIPA CITY, Batangas — Hog and poultry raisers, feedmill owners, egg suppliers, bulk ingredients suppliers and aqua business operators have joined hands and threatened not to deliver pork to Metro Manila next month.

This is in protest of the government’s failure to curb illegal meat importation, according to the newly formed coalition Agricultural Sector Alliance of the Philippines (ASAP).

Nicanor Briones, president of ASAP and the Limcoma Multipurpose Cooperative, the largest agricultural cooperative in the Philippines, will spearhead the protest.
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