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                    [Title] => Inside the belly of the shark
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Jonas Burgos was an agriculturist who was forcibly abducted by still unidentified group in Ever-Gotesco Mall along Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City more than six years ago.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135373 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1674851 [AuthorName] => Rene F. Antiga [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 884448 [Title] => US plane delivers goods to Pablo-ravaged provinces in Mindanao [Summary] =>

The United States military has brought at least 270,000 pounds of emergency supplies to provinces ravaged by typhoon "Pablo," the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced Monday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-10 15:46:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 843664 [Title] => Number of PMA hopefuls hits record high [Summary] =>

The number of Philippine Military Academy cadet hopefuls has reached a record high with 14,552 individuals wanting to enter into the premier military officer training institution in the country. 

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-30 15:22:28 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 642130 [Title] => Reasons to be hopeful [Summary] =>

In the spirit of Christmas that we celebrate today, let us scan the horizon for reasons to be happy and more optimistic, notwithstanding the uncertainties pervading most parts of the world and the mixed feelings of Filipinos over the Aquino administration’s performance in its first six months in office.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 12662 [Title] => Military still refuses to present report on missing Burgos to activist's mother [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-13 17:57:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 8731 [Title] => Still no sign of Burgos as military faces court [Summary] =>

Military officers linked to the abduction of missing activist Jonas Burgos and their lawyers appeared before the Court of Appeals Friday but insisted they did not have him.

The Supreme Court had earlier granted a writ of habeas corpus for Burgos and ordered President Gloria Arroyo and the military to bring Burgos before the CA.

However, only the lawyer of Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) Chief Delfin Bangit submitted his return of the writ.
[DatePublished] => 2007-07-27 17:01:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229086 [Title] => Guingona leads necrological rites for press freedom icon [Summary] => Press freedom icon Jose Burgos Jr. was laid to rest in simple but moving sunset rites at the family farm in San Miguel, Bulacan on Saturday after a two-hour necrological service.

Vice President Teofisto Guingona led a crowd of about 500 people, including former newspaper dealers, vendors, staffers and unsung benefactors of the "Mosquito Press," in assuring the family of Burgos Jr. that they will support the various causes that the late journalist-farmer had advocated up until he succumbed to cancer on November.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228853 [Title] => Veteran journalist Jose Burgos Jr. laid to rest today [Summary] => Jose G. Burgos Jr., journalist-farmer and leading symbol of the "alternative press" during the Marcos dictatorship, will be buried at 4:30 p.m. today at The Land farm in San Miguel, Bulacan, where he has lived for more than 15 years and where he now lies in state.

Necrological services and the Requiem Mass will be held at the farm chapel starting at 2 p.m.

Since Monday, masses have been held twice daily at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at The Land farm in Barangay Tartaro in San Miguel by Msgr. Ramon Tronqued and Fr. Emmanuel Alparce.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228350 [Title] => A nation’s ‘braveheart’ finally gone to rest [Summary] => Farewell, Cousin Joe. That’s what I’d like to say to Jose G. Burgos Jr. today now that he’s winged his way to heaven, a newspaperman-farmer (a strange but edifying combination) gone home in the gloaming. There will be a lot of words said about Joe’s bravery, his defiance of the Dictator Marcos, in the days to come. I would like to add that he was a "happy warrior", smiling even in the throes of adversity or the humiliation of setback.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228256 [Title] => Burgos, press freedom icon, 62 [Summary] => Journalist and farmer Jose Burgos Jr., named one of the world’s "50 Press Freedom Heroes of the Century" by the International Press Institute (IPI) in 2000, died yesterday morning of a lingering ailment at the Cardinal Santos Memorial Hospital in San Juan, his family announced. He was 62.

His remains will lie at the Land Farm in San Miguel, Bulacan, where he had stayed for more than 15 years.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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