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                    [Title] => Global information technology report 2013
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The Philippine National Competitiveness Council (NCC) should be congratulated for the overall improved ranking in the World Economic Forum Competitiveness Report.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134149 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804944 [AuthorName] => Roberto R. Romulo [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1092741 [Title] => Port system integration to optimize supply chain [Summary] =>

Apart from managing the country’s domestic shipping costs and making it more competitive, the integration of ports, inland terminals and logistic networks is seen to improve the supply chain performance among cargo handlers and shipping lines.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1342554 [AuthorName] => Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 915109 [Title] => Purisima congratulates fellow economic officials [Summary] =>

Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima extended his congratulations to a number of newly nominated and appointed economic officials today.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 689634 [Title] => The mayor and political will [Summary] =>

Mayor Michael Rama should be commended for standing pat on his decision to demolish the houses of squatters along Mahiga creek.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135759 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302306 [AuthorName] => Eladio Dioko [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 551574 [Title] => Edsa 24 years later: Still a lack of justice! [Summary] => Our special guest on our show on Straight from the Sky is someone who has been out of political circulation for sometime now. [DatePublished] => 2010-02-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 547717 [Title] => Success in BPO means focusing on English skills [Summary] =>

When I read a news item that the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) recently turned over 12 newly-repaired classrooms in the towns of Badian and Boljoon that would benefit more than 350 pupils, a report like this immediately sends the message that our government hasn’t really addressed the most basic problem plaguing our country, which has a direct relation in our being a poor or a 3rd world country; education or the lack of it!

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 401781 [Title] => Lessons in crisis [Summary] =>

Now it is the Asians’ turn to tell the US and other Western nations “no bailouts” for failing or failed companies, please. Certainly, Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Moha-mad have plenty to gloat about if they wanted to. But they don’t need to.

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 338645 [Title] => Cebuanos making Church history! [Summary] => Last Tuesday afternoon, the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral was overflowing with people from all walks of life, including President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) herself, attending a very rare occasion, the ordination of Most Reverend Monsignor Francisco "Pangkoy" Montecillo Padilla as Papal Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He is the second Cebuano to be appointed as Papal Nuncio. The first Cebuano to be given that honor is his own elder brother, Archbishop Osbaldo M. Padilla, Papal Nuncio to Costa Rica. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 338560 [Title] => Matching skills with the available jobs [Summary] => Because most media reports trailed Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) during her visit to Cebu the other day, I was the only media to attend the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Aboitiz Construction Group, Inc.-Metaphil Division and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to establish the Metaphil-TESDA Institute for Technical Training. (MTiTT). [DatePublished] => 2006-05-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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