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                    [Title] => Iran bans foreign media from anti-British rallies
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Iran on Thursday banned foreign media from covering any rallies in front of British diplomatic missions in the capital, in the latest fallout from the storming of Britain's embassy in Tehran by pro-government demonstrators.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-02 04:10:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 654980 [Title] => Ricky don't care [Summary] =>

“Boo-hoo-hoo!” was the reaction of a number of media practitioners who were appalled and aghast at the “don’t care” attitude of Communications Secretary (for some other function) Ricky Carandang to the YouTube video of actress Mae Paner (alias “Juana Change”) spoofing President Noynoy’s purchase of a P4.5 million Porsche Turbo Carrera.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135724 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 587841 [Title] => World leaders unite in slamming North Korea, Iran [Summary] =>

Briefly putting aside deep economic differences, top world leaders on yesterday condemned North Korea for the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship, set a five-year exit timeline for Afghanistan and said the standoff in Gaza was "not sustainable and must be changed."

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-27 04:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 582719 [Title] => UN approves new sanctions against Iran [Summary] =>

The UN Security Council on yesterday approved new sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear program that target Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, ballistic missiles and nuclear-related investments.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-10 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 579331 [Title] => As ugly as it gets [Summary] =>

I confess that when I first saw the May 17 picture of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, joining his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with raised arms — after their signing of a putative deal to defuse the crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program...

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772160 [AuthorName] => Thomas L. Friedman [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 569624 [Title] => Iran makes little headway in diplomatic offensive [Summary] =>

Iran's push to avoid new UN sanctions appeared to make little headway yesterday with Austria, with the Security Council member saying the onus was on Tehran to defuse international concerns about its nuclear agenda if it wanted to avoid fresh penalties.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-26 01:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 569089 [Title] => Scrutinize Sicpa claims [Summary] =>

Coffee shop kibitzers can’t help but talk about a recent statement made by Hans Schwab, director for institutional relationships of Swiss firm SICPA Product Security SA, who wondered aloud in a briefing with reporters why it’s taking too long for the company’s proposal to be approved by the Philippine government.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134315 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 566725 [Title] => Tobacco industry scores costly Sicpa tax stamp scheme [Summary] =>

The Philippine Tobacco Institute (PTI) has urged the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to reject the costly tax stamp scheme of SICPA Products Security SA (SICPA) after an international body found the system as lacking “international tracking requirements.”

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 566118 [Title] => Sicpa scheme lacks tracking requirements -WHO [Summary] =>

An international convention attached to the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the multi-billion peso tax stamp scheme being pushed by SICPA Product Security SA is not a track and trace system.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 564951 [Title] => BIR must verify claim [Summary] =>

In its bid to push for approval of its unsolicited proposal to the government for the application of the stamp-tax technology to collect more excise tax from cigarette and liquor exports, the Swiss firm SICPA Product Security has assured, among other things, that its system can provide track and trace technology.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134315 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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