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                    [ArticleID] => 1364137
                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Cash doleouts like being astride a tiger
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The cash doleouts amounting to billions of pesos that government has been giving to the poor have not produced the results government naively expected from its folly.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20140901/FreeToon.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1328182 [Title] => Foul, even for Napoles [Summary] =>

For her involvement in the P10 billion PDAF scam, Janet Lim Napoles has become nothing less than the personification of evil in the public's eye.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1286461 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Why medical professionals flee [Summary] =>

There is mounting concern over the increasingly palpable shortage of doctors in the country. According to reports there are now only about 70,000 doctors in the Philippines, which has just breached the 100 million mark.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 972161 [Title] => Car sales hitting record high [Summary] =>

HEAVY TRAFFIC.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135969 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img690/3563/x5e.gif ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 937006 [Title] => EDITORIAL - 4Ps baptism of fire: 2013 polls [Summary] =>

A former Eastern Visayas governor now running for mayor of a capital city told reporters during President Aquino's recent swing through that region that incumbent opposition officials are using the president's 4Ps program to win votes and discourage attendance in LP rallies.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 890317 [Title] => Aman Futures scam [Summary] =>

With thousands duped and billions stolen, this news is set to develop next year when deceived investors continue to surface and the perpetrators face the law.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img585/2238/aman286.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 773651 [Title] => Fish tale [Summary] => One piece of news that broke early this week but did not get the attention it deserved, probably because much of the focus was on the ongoing Corona impeachment trial, was the one about the Philippines now having to import “galunggong” from China and Taiwan. [DatePublished] => 2012-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 744204 [Title] => EDITORIAL - All skewed up [Summary] =>

Government resources are very hard to come by.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 743188 [Title] => Editorial - If more are hungry, what happened to the cash doles? [Summary] =>

According to the Social Weather Stations, in a survey conducted on the first week of last September, the estimated number of families that experienced real hunger grew from about three million to about 4.3 million since the last similar survey was made in June.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 665790 [Title] => Japan's central bank pumps $85.5 billion in market [Summary] =>

Japan's central bank has injected 7 trillion yen (US$85.5 billion) into money markets after the devastating earthquake and tsunami raised dire worries about the world's third-largest economy.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-14 09:59:43 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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