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                    [ArticleID] => 1936205
                    [Title] => Philippine Congress building feng shui
                    [Summary] => Guess you don’t know!  Philippine Congress or the Batasang Pambansa Lower House of Representatives has the worst building Feng Shui that gravely affects Philippine progress let alone prosperity!
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-07-20 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135031
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1316870
                    [AuthorName] => Feng Shui Master Aldric Dalumpines
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle
                    [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle
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                    [ArticleID] => 1927726
                    [Title] => The Sotto Clan and the Senate 100 years after
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Senate was a creation of an American legislation. It was Congressman William Atkinson Jones of the State of Virginia who authored the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916. It envisioned a Philippine Congress similar that of the United States bicameral congress, composed of the House of Representatives (in the Philippines it was created in 1907 with Don Sergio Osmeña as its first Speaker) and the Senate.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-06-19 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133848
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1236815
                    [AuthorName] => Clarence Paul Oaminal
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
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                    [ArticleID] => 1917424
                    [Title] => Don Sergio S. Osmeña Sr., the first Visayan vice president and president
                    [Summary] => Don Sergio S. Osmeña Sr. ushered Cebu into the national political limelight with his election as the first speaker of the Philippine Congress in 1907, making him the most powerful Filipino in the government, next to the governor general who was an American during the American Occupation.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-05-13 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133848
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1236815
                    [AuthorName] => Clarence Paul Oaminal
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
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                    [ArticleID] => 1912681
                    [Title] => Don Sergio S. Osmeña Sr., the first Speaker of the Philippine Congress
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Bill of 1902 established the Philippine Congress which was theoretically a bicameral congress, composed of the Philippine Commission as the Upper House whose members were appointed by the President of the United States of America and the Philippine Assembly considered as the Lower House composed of representatives elected by congressional districts.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-04-26 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133848
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1236815
                    [AuthorName] => Clarence Paul Oaminal
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
                    [SectionUrl] => opinion
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                    [ArticleID] => 1539088
                    [Title] => The forgotten generation
                    [Summary] => 

Since the 1980s, being half Filipino, half foreign has become a premium in Philippine sports.

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As founder and leader of the BOPK, Tomas Osmeña may be forgiven for going to great lengths to extol the supposed "virtues" of his slate in the 2016 elections.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-13 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20151014/freetoon.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1503540 [Title] => Philippines has potential to be global BPO capital – CBRE [Summary] =>

At a recent press conference detailing its latest industry report on the second quarter of 2015, real estate and property consultancy CBRE Philippines underscored the immense growth of the national economy in large part to the business process outsourcing (BPO) phenomenon in the past decade.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1501544 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Comelec and the poll sabotage yarn [Summary] =>

One of the most preposterous stories to emerge in the run-up to the 2016 elections is the one peddled by, of all sources, the Comelec itself. In deliberations on the poll body's P16 billion election budget, the Comelec told congressmen that China may be out to sabotage the political exercise meant to elect a new Philippine president next year.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-18 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20150919/freetoon.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1437380 [Title] => BIR won’t lower 2015 revenue target [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Internal Revenue will not downgrade its 2015 revenue target in the near-term after it just recently lowered its overall goal and the targets of its collecting units following the recent passage of a law raising the tax exemption of bonuses, an official said.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1213316 [AuthorName] => Carlo S. Lorenciana [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1426917 [Title] => Organization calls for streamlining investment laws [Summary] =>

The Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) is calling for the implementation of amendments to the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law by streamlining the mechanisms to improve the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Program.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-23 20:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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