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                    [ArticleID] => 1236151
                    [Title] => The Martial Law anniversary and the Labor Code
                    [Summary] => 

Today is the forty-first anniversary of Martial Law and 2013 is the thirty-ninth year of the Labor Code.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134002 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148714 [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1077591 [Title] => Adjusting government office hours [Summary] =>

I have had the privilege of being a part of a team providing service for the Department of the Interior and Local Government. Since 2001, we have been conducting seminars for local government officers, specially within the few months following the election of new local officials. In those sessions, I always share with my audience ideas on local legislation. Participants and resource persons agree that enacting ordinances is an attempt to solve a nagging problem or to anticipate a situation or to approximate a vision.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1155278 [AuthorName] => AvenPiramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 648568 [Title] => Leagues for new times [Summary] =>

The changes in media over the last two decades have diluted the power base of formerly monolithic entities like NBA and Major League Baseball abroad, and even basketball leagues like the PBA locally.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 441071 [Title] => Let's be serious in finding alternatives to oil [Summary] =>

Last weekend, Press Secretary Cerge M. Remonde revealed that Malacañang was seriously thinking of “revisiting” the Oil Deregulation Law especially when he admitted that the government had “limited” powers in addressing the fluctuating prices of crude oil or even the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 318369 [Title] => Creating wealth in a new environment [Summary] => (Speech delivered during the general membership meeting of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines

(FINEX) at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Inter-Continental Manila on Jan. 24, 2006)


The theme suggested by FINEX for the year is indeed most timely and relevant given the state of our economy. There is a compelling need to create additional wealth in the new environment that is created by the globalization process.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1742758 [AuthorName] => Senator Manny Villar [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 280079 [Title] => My grandma’s hands [Summary] => I have my grandmother’s hands. They are knobby, small and at almost two-thirds the age of grandma’s hands when she died, they look like they have already weathered over a lifetime of tactile challenges. Grandma came from a Bulacan family of ladies who made delicately embroidered Filipiniana clothes for generations, while I, her first grandchild, have never been near a sewing machine for 25 years since Ms. [DatePublished] => 2005-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249681 [AuthorName] => DE RERUM NATURA By Maria Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194005 [Title] => This is tomorrow [Summary] => The more or less annual literary journal of Silliman University, Sands & Coral, came out with its latest issue late last year with the theme "Future Shock," edited by the writer and teacher at the university’s English Department, Ian Rosales Casocot.

Future Shock
is described as an anthology of young writers and new literatures, and focuses solely on prose, with a poetry edition to come out early this year.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 179686 [Title] => 1984: A future in the past [Summary] => It happened almost 20 years ago. People live in beaten-down houses and have barely enough to eat. They are taught to believe that everything told them is right. Sex is more disgusting than cleaning a public toilet and is done only to keep the population up until artificial means can be perfected. There are no loving connections between people even in the family structure and children are their parents’ biggest traitors. Mass killings are made public but many individuals still disappear in the night, never to be seen again. [DatePublished] => 2002-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1135820 [AuthorName] => Armin Rose Aguilar-Concepcion [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 154869 [Title] => Why we need sports [Summary] => The last fifteen years have marked a radical shift in human consciousness, and a slow decline in activity. Alvin Toffler, noted author of global trend-spotting books like "Future Shock" and "Third Wave" predicted the movement in his last book, "Powershift."
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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