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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Still partly free
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The land of people power is still considered “partly free” in terms of political and civil liberties. This is according to Washington-based Freedom House, which classified the Philippines as one of 59 “partly free” countries in its Freedom in the World 2014 report. The study covered 195 countries, with 88 deemed “free” and 48 “not free.”

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.com/a/img690/8488/tpgb.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 509478 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Aid and corruption [Summary] =>

In its latest Global Corruption Report, Transparency International has criticized foreign companies for aggravating corruption in the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5836/startoonthumba.gif ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 402530 [Title] => Moody's sees RP industrial output slowing down [Summary] => Fiscal stimulus plans would do little to boost the country’s economic momentum as monetary tightening starts to ... [DatePublished] => 2008-09-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 377097 [Title] => NAIA on bird flu alert [Summary] => The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) has raised an alert and has started screening arriving travelers at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminals following an increase in bird flu deaths in neighboring countries, particularly Indonesia.

In a memorandum to all government agencies and private groups operating at the NAIA, MIAA general manager Alfonso Cusi pointed to the persistent danger posed by bird flu.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236445 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Cull these smugglers [Summary] => While health authorities were busy announcing that the country had banned the importation of chicken from Cambodia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam, some crooks at the Batangas port were busy making a killing. [DatePublished] => 2004-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202281 [Title] => Asia vows support for Iraq [Summary] => HONG KONG — Several Asian governments welcomed yesterday the fall of Baghdad and made pledges of aid for post-war Iraq, but the overall mood was one of cautious optimism.

Some countries expressed concern about the whereabouts of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the lack of formal acknowledgement of defeat from his regime.

"The war is still going on," Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters. "We wish that the people of Iraq will drop their guns and walk on the path to peace."
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169044 [Title] => NGO, farmer group back biotech corn [Summary] => A leading non-governmental organization and the country’s largest organization of corn farmers recently expressed support for the country’s adoption of a biotechnology-processed corn variety.

Filipino scientist Leonardo Gonzales, chairman and president of Sikap Foundation, told a large gathering of agricultural researchers and experts that Bt corn "is relatively superior over non-Bt corn in terms of yield, costs, profit and nutritional food security".
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 137328 [Title] => EDITORIAL - A summit against terrorism [Summary] => The summits of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum were often nothing more than an opportunity for APEC leaders to show off the sartorial style of the host country. [DatePublished] => 2001-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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