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[ArticleID] => 385904
[Title] => Deadly inheritance
[Summary] =>
The late Arturo Rocha had a very extravagant lifestyle. He traveled extensively, stayed in five-star hotels, and gave very lavish parties in his 5,000-square meter home in South Forbes. He had very expensive taste in cars and he bought a lot of priceless paintings from masters like Fernando Amorsolo, Luna, Hidalgo and others. With his kind of lifestyle, people naturally perceived Arturo to be a very wealthy man. When he died of blood poisoning in Ireland in 2003 however, this opened a can of worms.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-20 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135881
[Focus] => 0
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[SectionName] => Business
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[ArticleID] => 385110
[Title] => Ex-envoy’s lawyer pulls out of estate dispute
[Summary] =>
A law firm representing former Ambassador to Spain Juan Rocha in a probate of will proceeding filed by his younger stepbrother’s widow before a Makati City court recently withdrew from the case because of conflict of interest.
Lawyer Reynaldo Dizon, of the Martinez, Vergara, Gonzales & Serrano law firm, personally informed Judge Elmo Alameda of his withdrawal during a hearing held last February 2.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] =>
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[SectionName] => Metro
[SectionUrl] => metro
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[ArticleID] => 358848
[Title] => Ambassador Juan Rocha’s response
[Summary] => Former ambassador Juan Jose "Johnny" Rocha wrote Spybiz in reaction to the column item "A depressed wife, now an oppressed widow" (Sept.12 issue) pointing out three things: One, that "’the other woman’ was not in the room, in the hospital" where Arturo Rocha died; that no civil suit had been filed against Ambassador Rocha by Marissa Olasolo at the time of this writing; and that he and Marissa maintain a cordial relationship.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135725
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1730160
[AuthorName] => S.A. Maguire
[SectionName] => Business
[SectionUrl] => business
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[ArticleID] => 237714
[Title] => Lean and mean?
[Summary] => Cost-cutting techniques vary from one company to another, depending on who’s running it. As far as multi-tasking is concerned, AMA, it seems, is making headway among its competitors. It was reported by our ear-spies that the company is streamlining its workforce by making full use of the lean-and-mean concept. Management is cutting the company’s administrative cost so that a Property Custodian also works as part-time Librarian, HR officer as Registrar, and IT officer as Property Custodian.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135728
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1730160
[AuthorName] => S.A. Maguire
[SectionName] => Business
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[ArticleID] => 213977
[Title] => State of the Visit
[Summary] => According to our Washington ear-spies, the US National Security Council is re-assessing whether POTUS (code word for the President of the United States) should continue with his trip to the Philippines in October or not, in view of the recent escape of Jemaah Islamayah bomber Al-Ghozi. CIA and FBI operatives on the ground are in fact evaluating whether the escape of Al-Ghozi would have serious implications on the personal security of POTUS.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-17 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135728
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1730160
[AuthorName] => S.A. Maguire
[SectionName] => Business
[SectionUrl] => business
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[ArticleID] => 188045
[Title] => Real Fun Party
[Summary] => One of Cosmo Manille’s hostesses with the mostest, fashionable Marisa Olasolo Rocha together with husband, mega-business magnate el simpatico Arturo Rocha, hosted a cocktail/dinner buffet at their elegant Forbes Park home for their close gang of pals that included Edward Wehrli, acting Consul General of the US Embassy and his wife Rosemary, who left for their new post as Con-Gen in Islamabad, Pakistan a couple of sleeps ago, dahlings, and Stuart Patt, chief of the Non-Immigrant Visa Unit of the US Embassy, who also left for a new post as press spokesman of the Consular Bureau of the State
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134863
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1510163
[AuthorName] => Maurice Arcache
[SectionName] => Starweek Magazine
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[ArticleID] => 182454
[Title] => Bewitching Bohol
[Summary] =>
Former Ilocos Sur Vice Gov. Chavit Singson gave his reaction over Miss Universe Organization's move to allow transwomen and women with children to compete at the prestigious pageant.
Filipino-American model and fashion designer R’Bonney Gabriel has been in the Philippines for about a week now for “special projects,” she told Philstar.com and other press at Rustan’s Makati’s summer launch last week.
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