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                    [ArticleID] => 1496442
                    [Title] => Share your potful of food stories
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In a small village in Southern Leyte, several hours away from Tacloban, children are one with the sea. Equipped with homemade goggles crafted from discarded glass and spare wood, they dive and search in between rocks and corals. It doesn’t take long for them to find their prize: swaki, a type of colorful sea-urchin with pin-like spines that can be held by delicate hands without risk of injury.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-05 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/other-sections/starweek-magazine/20150906/Kwentong-Pagakain-7.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262795 [Title] => Face the creditors, mom [Summary] => No matter how much the government – and even the eminent faculty members of the UP School of Economics – talk about the perils of the country’s high level of debt and unmanageable budget deficit, we may not be able to get out of the rut unless drastic measures are seriously undertaken soon.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255240 [Title] => Tax not the poor texters [Summary] => The urong-sulong hesitation of government to tax text messages reflects on its desperation to look for ways and means of increasing state revenue collections but at the same time being wary and sensitive to the backlash of protests from millions of Filipino "texters."

When the proposal was floated again last week (after several months of hiatus in deference to the election campaign), the reaction of 25 million Filipino cellular phone subscribers as gleaned from their text messages was enough to indicate the measure’s unpopularity.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250356 [Title] => Population and DTI issues on TV [Summary] => I will be away for a couple of weeks for my annual sabbatical leave. My commentaries on issues of the day will resume on the 24th of May. My television programs on IBC-13, in the meantime, continue with their airings. Please watch them.
On TV: Our Population In Crisis
"Isyung Kalakalan at Iba Pa" on IBC News (4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., Monday to Friday) starts today with a discussion of population management in the country, and the urgency by which government needs to respond. [DatePublished] => 2004-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249982 [Title] => Purisima on Breaking Barriers [Summary] => I will be away for a couple of weeks for my annual sabbatical leave. My commentaries on issues of the day will resume on the 24th of May. My television programs on IBC-13, in the meantime, continue with their airings. Please watch them.
Energy Sector Issues On TV
"Isyung Kalakalan at Iba Pa" on IBC News (4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., Monday to Friday) ends today discussions of issues plaguing the energy sector. [DatePublished] => 2004-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249514 [Title] => Choosing well [Summary] => We expect a lot from those we choose to govern the public services that we need as we carry on with the tasks of raising our family, feeding ourselves and generally contributing to the overall productivity of the country.

Today, let us bear in mind that whoever we choose must be able to lead and inspire those in government to deliver the appropriate governance, and those in the private sector to take part and contribute to our growing nation needs. Choose well.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249104 [Title] => Vote for moral uprising [Summary] => The country casts its votes on Monday and a new cycle in public governance starts. There will be new faces in the bureaucracy but much of the country’s problems remain.

Two months ago, we asked what people felt should be the new government’s agenda. The problem of peace and order, corruption in government, the deteriorating productivity and competitiveness of local industries, and the country’s fiscal and debt problems were among those enumerated.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 244026 [Title] => Will SuperFerry ghosts haunt inquiry? [Summary] => It’s a gory business for any search and retrieval operation involving marine accidents. The SuperFerry 14 tragedy, which happened last Feb. 27, is no exception.

Relatives of missing passengers were appalled at the very slow response of the Philippine Coast Guard Authority (PCGA) and the reluctant logistics assistance of the Aboitiz controlled WG&A, owner of the ill-starred vessel.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 241374 [Title] => Philippine shipping and Noah’s lament [Summary] => My column last Monday ("Death stalks GMA’s nautical highway") elicited reactions from several readers. Here are excerpts from Ricky Saunders’s letter.

"Your points are well taken on what is wrong with our domestic shipping industry. But what’s the solution? Have a ‘stronger MARINA republic’? Okay, but not likely to happen.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236981 [Title] => Export competitiveness going, going, gone? [Summary] => Economists were taken aback upon learning that official figures recently released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) indicated a 4.9-percent year-on-year drop in the country’s November exports, instead of registering that much-anticipated rebound in the sector. It was not something expected in November, traditionally being one of the stronger export months ahead of the Christmas season.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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