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                    [Title] => Erap orders late mayor’s statues restored
                    [Summary] => 

Mayor Joseph Estrada has ordered the city engineer’s office to start restoring two statues of the late Manila mayor Arsenio Lacson.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286644 [Title] => Manila landmarks of the ’20s [Summary] => This week brings us back another decade in our series on Manila landmarks. Last week, we were in the 1930s. As we continue with our showcase of buildings and places in the metropolis, this week we look at landmarks of the Roaring ’20s.

The city had grown by leaps and bounds in the two decades since the Americans took over. The scars of the Spanish-American-Filipino war had healed, business was booming and numerous edifices were being put up to accommodate this expanded commercial activity.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133893 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1236491 [AuthorName] => CITY SENSE By Paulo Alcazaren [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249393 [Title] => MANILA 7 DECADES AGO [Summary] => Itook Lulu, my daughter-in-law – a balikbayan – to dinner at one of the Roxas Boulevard restaurants the other night and she saw how the boulevard was spruced up with fancy lights, and food stalls. She had not seen Manila in years and was quite delighted at the change. The darkness is very kind to Manileños for it hides from view those dreary sights that have made our capital one of the world’s ugliest cities.

It was not like this before, so here then is my memoir of the Manila that was.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134336 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1352767 [AuthorName] => HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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