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                    [Title] => Unraveled
                    [Summary] => When the unraveling of our country’s financial position in 1983 turned desperate, then prime minister Cesar Virata gathered the courage to talk to Marcos.
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-02-21 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco
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                    [Title] => Memories of the Philippines debt crisis
                    [Summary] =>  “Gentlemen, do you know that your country is broke? You have overstated your foreign exchange reserves by $600 million,” the banker told former prime minister Cesar Virata, central bank governor Jaime Laya and Monetary Board member Cesar Buenaventura. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-04-22 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
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                    [Title] => More groups back proposed tax reform package
                    [Summary] => Former government officials, business groups and civil society organizations have called on the Congress to approve the government’s tax reform proposal as it could deliver additional government revenues that can be used to address the country’s infrastructure gap and provide social services to the poor.
                    [DatePublished] => 2017-03-15 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Mary Grace Padin
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                    [Title] => Envisioning a progressive Philippines
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Respected names from the government and business circles showed their support for the visionary Jose “Joey” Leviste Jr. as he launched his recent book titled If The Philippines Had A Lee Kuan Yew at the McKinley Room of the Manila Polo Club in Makati City.

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“It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.”Kojiro Tomita

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On Sept. 21, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and ruled as dictator through presidential decrees. He was elected president in 1965 and re-elected in 1969.

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More lawmakers are calling for another approach to give workers and other salaried employees tax relief.

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“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”   Horace Greeley

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Below are Washington SyCip’s thoughtful comments during the launch of my book on August 27, 2014 at the Yuchengco Museum in Makati City, entitled, Cesar Virata: Life and Times during Four Decades of Philippine Economic History (University of the Philippines Press)...

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A bomb threat caused a stir at the University of the Philippines’ College of Business Administration (UP-CBA) a few hours before examinations scheduled yesterday.

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