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                    [Title] => Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
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The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a culture of constant communication and change.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-12 15:15:36 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4631/popetweeting.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 699791 [Title] => DTI hails filing of Save Act [Summary] =>

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) hailed the filing of the Save the Industries Act before the US Senate because it is a step in the right direction towards the revival of the Philippine garments industry.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1480108 [AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 699183 [Title] => Save Act measure refiled in US Senate [Summary] =>

Sen. Daniel Inouye has refiled in the US Senate a bill which seeks to revive the dying textile industry in the Philippines and generate some 200,000 jobs while at the same time opening up the Asian market for American textile.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2113/inouyethumb.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 522284 [Title] => Hawaii senator co-sponsors bill to aid veterans' kids [Summary] =>

HONOLULU — A US senator is co-sponsoring legislation that would allow the children of Filipino World War II veterans living in the United States to become permanent US residents.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 445040 [Title] => Honoring heroes [Summary] => MANILA, Philippines - In 1942, 67 years ago today, our boys starved, bled and died in the foxholes of Bataan and Corregidor. [DatePublished] => 2009-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1112619 [AuthorName] => Alberto G. Romulo [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 440120 [Title] => $198M ng WWII veterans aprub na sa US Congress [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - Ikinatuwa kahapon ni Pangulong Gloria Arroyo ang pagpasa sa US Congress ng American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 kung saan naka­paloob ang $198M para sa mga Filipino World War II veterans.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1590360 [AuthorName] => Ni Malou Escudero [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 423574 [Title] => GLOBAL NEWS: War veteran widows wrongly denied help [Summary] =>

WASHINGTON (AP) – Surviving spouses of war veterans have been wrongfully denied up to millions of dollars in government benefits over the past 12 years due to computer glitches that often resulted in money being seized from the elderly survivors' bank accounts.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-14 09:34:31 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 68100 [Title] => Paghihintay ng war veterans malapit nang matapos [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-06-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134291 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1247482 [AuthorName] => Danny Macabuhay [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 64559 [Title] => War veterans hope long wait for US benefits soon over [Summary] =>

Filipino soldiers who fought beside Americans during World War II hope their long wait for veteran benefits will soon be over.

[DatePublished] => 2008-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 47417 [Title] => Obama backs pension for Pinoy war vets [Summary] =>

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama supports a bill that would award pension benefits to Filipinos who fought under the US flag during World War II when their country was a US colony.

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