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                    [Title] => Popular protests in Brazil
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Under the presidency of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva of the Workers Party, Brazil’s economy grew phenomenally, with vast well-developed agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors topping all South American countries.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 951056 [Title] => The second half [Summary] =>

For a President often criticized for doing nothing, with a derisive term even coined for it, there are some undeniable feats in the past three years.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 630422 [Title] => Political cash transfer? [Summary] =>

Our senators appear to be the target both of pressure from and emotional manipulation by defenders of and apologists of the controversial P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT).

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134315 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 619130 [Title] => Vancouver - city of film festivals [Summary] =>

Vancouver is a city of film festivals and the residents love going to the cinema, patronizing mindless shopping mall movies from America with third world countries in mind and illiterate Americans but also art house features to cinematheque retrospectives/ revivals/restoration of classics.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134675 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1514338 [AuthorName] => Mel Tobias [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 579331 [Title] => As ugly as it gets [Summary] =>

I confess that when I first saw the May 17 picture of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, joining his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with raised arms — after their signing of a putative deal to defuse the crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program...

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772160 [AuthorName] => Thomas L. Friedman [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 545232 [Title] => IBM opens 2nd global delivery center in Cebu [Summary] =>

Technology solutions giant IBM has opened its second Global Delivery Center (GDC) in the Philippines, in Cebu, taking advantage of the province’s abundant supply of high-value Information Technology (IT) talents.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 511635 [Title] => 2016 Olympics a crowning glory for Brazil leader [Summary] =>

He is the Pele of politics, knighted the "most popular politician on Earth" by another contender for the title — Barack Obama.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-07 04:30:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 459124 [Title] => Americas summit concludes in 'new spirit of cooperation' [Summary] => PORT OF SPAIN (Xinhua) -- The Fifth Summit of the Americas closed here on Sunday in what Prime Minister Patrick Manning of the host country Trinidad and Tobago described as a "new spirit of cooperation. [DatePublished] => 2009-04-20 06:58:46 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299772 [Title] => Now it’s Brazil! [Summary] => After Argentina, we are now being compared with Brazil. Somehow, people seem to think we have more in common with crisis prone Latin America than the tiger economies of Southeast Asia. Last week, William Pesek Jr., a business columnist of Bloomberg News, thought of us as he wrote from Sao Paolo.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 242632 [Title] => Realignments [Summary] => You’ve probably heard this doomsday scenario by now: our weak republic will be lost in the wilderness for the next 12 to 18 years.

Why?

The answer is another question: What would you expect after six years of Fernando Poe Jr. followed by six years of vice presidential shoo-in Noli de Castro? There’s disagreement on who will succeed De Castro, but for now the betting seems to be on another actor, Bong Revilla, who’s running for the Senate based on his record in local government and in playing cat and mouse with the film pirates of Quiapo and Greenhills. [DatePublished] => 2004-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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