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                    [ArticleID] => 1392139
                    [Title] => Here comes BDG!
                    [Summary] => 

Uptown/Downtown continues its feature on the collection of the Bridal Designers Group-Philippines (BDG) with the association’s second batch of members.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136123 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1392115 [AuthorName] => Joanne Zapanta-Andrada [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/allure/20141116/here-comes-bdg-6.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 812705 [Title] => DPWH rushes road repairs [Summary] =>

With only three days before the opening of classes, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) yesterday said there would be continued road improvement and maintenance works along national roads in Metro Manila.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096905 [AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 748131 [Title] => Physician dies from fall in building basement [Summary] =>

An 81-year-old doctor died yesterday morning after allegedly falling into an opening leading to the basement of a Sta. Cruz, Manila building in which his clinic is located.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1546326 [AuthorName] => Nestor Etolle [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 660306 [Title] => Sexy fragrances with a side of hot Nacho [Summary] =>

At a small conference room discreetly tucked into one side of Manila Pen, the crowd is oddly hushed.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1164470 [AuthorName] => Bea J. Ledesma [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 418676 [Title] => What singer Karylle will wear to Pacquiao-dela Hoya dream match [Summary] => Aside from how Karylle will interpret the Philippine national anthem (like her predecessors who (in) famously varied in delivery after which they either got praised or panned), audiences are sure to watch out for what the singer will wear at the Manny Pacquiao-Oscar dela Hoya dream match in Las Vegas on December 6. [DatePublished] => 2008-11-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 78501 [Title] => Homeless man with P.2-M savings stabbed dead [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251222 [Title] => Ilocos Sur mayor nabbed for contempt [Summary] => STO. DOMINGO, Ilocos Sur — This town’s mayor, installed two weeks before the May 10 polls based on a court verdict favoring his electoral protest, is in trouble,

This, after Mayor Alfred Figueras was ordered arrested last Friday for direct contempt. He had barely warmed his seat (on his 15th day, to be exact) after unseating Floro Tadena, his opponent in 2001, when the arrest warrant came out.

The arrest order for him was issued by Vigan City Regional Trial Court Judge Dominador Arquelada who, incidentally, was the same one who earlier had ruled in his favor. [DatePublished] => 2004-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 199120 [Title] => Thrift banks not happy with 10% VAT [Summary] => The thrift banking system considers the 10-percent value-added tax (VAT) as a "disincentive" which runs counter to the calls of the National Government for more loans to the small and medium enterprises (SME) as well as the microenterprises.

In a position paper, the Chamber of Thrift Banks (CTB) said the VAT "will adversely affect hundreds of thousands of housing loan borrowers and SMEs . . . since VAT on interest on borrowings must be passed on to the borrower."
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198398 [Title] => Banking on SMEs [Summary] => That the Chamber of Thrift Banks represents the banking sector in the Small and Medium Enterprise Development or SMED Council says much about what it does best.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94787 [Title] => Reopen probe on 11 Indians, Senate asked [Summary] =>

Former NBI deputy director Arturo Figueras, the official indicted for the 1994 illegal release of 11 drug-dealing Indians, said he will seek the Senate Blue Ribbon committee's help to reopen the inquiry on who was really behind the controversial case.

Figueras said he will ask the Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, chairman of the Senate committee, to reopen the case and verify his latest allegations that the documents used in charging him were actually falsified.

"Now I dare (former NBI director Epimaco) Velasco to come out and refute my allegations," said Figueras. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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