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                    [ArticleID] => 1540076
                    [Title] => Tinderbox
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Whenever the Palace says it is “monitoring” a situation, I imagine the President and his courtiers huddled around a television set, watching the news.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-06 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1537740 [Title] => Pinas-SAHI and TFC’s Kantawanan sa Al Khobar 2015 draws 15,000 OFWs [Summary] =>

The Eastern Province is the largest province of Saudi Arabia and the center of most of the Kingdom’s oil production. It is the hub of the state-owned Saudi Aramco, the biggest energy company in the world. The Eastern Province is home to around 250,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20151231/OFW-8.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1270444 [Title] => 3 Pinoys killed in Saudi road mishap [Summary] =>

Three Filipinos were among five expatriates killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province on Wednesday, an Arab News report said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1226611 [Title] => World’s most innovative initiatives in education awarded [Summary] =>

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) announced the six winners of the 2013 WISE Awards. Since 2009 the WISE Awards have helped to disseminate some of the most effective practices in addressing urgent global challenges in education. The winning projects are:

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 726518 [Title] => Phl embassy in Saudi sends Pinay's body home sans eye, tongue [Summary] =>

After repatriating the wrong cadaver, the Philippine embassy in Saudi Arabia sent home the remains of another overseas Filipino worker (OFW), this time with body parts missing, a migrant workers’ group said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 678904 [Title] => Saudi women demand right to vote [Summary] =>

About 15 Saudi women showed up at a voter registration center in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, demanding a male-only electoral system to be reversed, local Arab News daily reported today.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-24 21:17:41 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 665594 [Title] => EDITORYAL - Huwag ibalewala ang nangyayari sa Saudi [Summary] =>

NANG sumiklab ang kaguluhan sa Egypt at Libya, nalantad ang katotohanan na walang kahandaan ang mga embahada ng Pilipinas sa nabanggit na mga bansa.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 647729 [Title] => Sri Lanka prepares for flood-borne diseases [Summary] =>

Sri Lanka is hospitalizing pregnant women and young children to shield them from waterborne diseases in districts where floods have brought sewage into the streets, a health official said Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-14 01:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321759 [Title] => We must still be a desirable destination: So many are sneaking in [Summary] => In trying to justify their increase in gasoline and other fuel prices, the oil companies will have to contend with their own alarming image of alarming profit worldwide.

How can they claim that they would be on a slide to the poor house if they don’t increase their prices when Big Oil is making mega-bucks in this period of high demand?

It was reported in many other media, but TIME magazine, February 13 issue, has just confirmed that a $36.1 billion profit was made by Exxon Mobil for the year 2005, "the largest ever for an American company." [DatePublished] => 2006-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313927 [Title] => Kasong pang-aabuso sa kabayan sa Saudi [Summary] => "ATE Jean, tulungan po sana ako dahil napakahirap ng kinalalagyan namin. Marami kami dito, at iyong iba raw dito ay matagal na dito, at di pa makauwi. May mga kasamahan pa kami na tatlo na naiwan doon sa Al-Khobar, sa bahay ni Fred Davila na Welfare Officer. Dinala kami roon ng driver niya na si Coco Jurado. Si Coco rin ang humalay sa akin, at ang pangako niya ay ibibili raw ako ng tiket para makauwi sa Pinas. Pero wala rin. Itong dalawa na ito ang hayop sa laman. Siguro, Ate, ay matagal na nila ginagawa ito. [DatePublished] => 2005-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135482 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) ) )
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