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                    [ArticleID] => 656917
                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Conversion
                    [Summary] => 

Fund conversion, according to several lawmakers, is not unique to the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7043/startoonthumbi.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 597163 [Title] => AFP chief grants Querubin provisional liberty [Summary] =>

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Lt. Gen. Ricardo David has signed the release papers of former Marine Col. Ariel Querubin, granting the mutiny suspect provisional liberty after years of detention.

[DatePublished] => 2010-07-28 09:57:20 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 504457 [Title] => US government vows to speed up processing of RP veterans' claims [Summary] =>

The United States government has given its commitment to speed up the processing of claims of thousands of Filipino World War II veterans.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 61421 [Title] => DND seeks P542-M supplemental budget for AFP pension arrears [Summary] =>

Defense chief Gilberto Teodoro recently requested from the Department of Budget and Management a P542-million supplemental budget to pay the pension of military retirees within the year.

[DatePublished] => 2008-05-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 381998 [Title] => GMA to relinquish post as DND chief next week [Summary] => President Arroyo is expected to relinquish her post as acting defense secretary when she meets her top defense officials next week.

Mrs. Arroyo, who assumed the defense portfolio in an acting capacity for two months following the resignation of Avelino Cruz, is now attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Her two-month stint as acting defense secretary gave her the opportunity to directly oversee the ongoing implementation of the Philippine Defense Reform (PDR) initiated by Cruz.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 380648 [Title] => RP, US agree to fast-track defense acquisition, reform programs [Summary] => Ranking military and defense officials from the Philippines and the United States have vowed to accelerate the Philippine Defense Reform (PDR) of resigned defense chief Avelino Cruz Jr.

President Arroyo, in her capacity as concurrent secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND), met with US Ambassador Kristie Kenney yesterday and vowed to pursue the defense and military reform programs initiated by Cruz.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 370349 [Title] => Coup culture [Summary] => Politicians should just simmer down and let a military court resolve in peace the charges against 30 officers implicated in the supposed coup plot last February.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 370528 [Title] => Coup culture [Summary] => Politicians should just simmer down and let a military court resolve in peace the charges against 30 officers implicated in the supposed coup plot last February.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 370081 [Title] => What an "irreparable loss"! [Summary] => There's weighty wisdom in that romantic refrain that the value of someone or something is only appreciated when that special someone or something shall have been lost. More often than not, such value or its fitting appreciation, or endearment, is just taken for granted before the loss. And that's the tragic irony.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 370276 [Title] => What an "irreparable loss"! [Summary] => There's weighty wisdom in that romantic refrain that the value of someone or something is only appreciated when that special someone or something shall have been lost. More often than not, such value or its fitting appreciation, or endearment, is just taken for granted before the loss. And that's the tragic irony.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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