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                    [Title] => MTRCB sponsors scriptwriting contest
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The Senior Citizen Committee of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) is sponsoring a scriptwriting contest centered on empowering senior citizens.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 940998 [Title] => Romancing the King’s language [Summary] =>

Our country boasts of being a predominantly English-speaking nation but, truth be told, a good number of Filipinos would not readily profess proficiency in the King’s language. One grapples with the appropriate preposition to use, the right subject-verb agreement or even the spelling of a commonly misspelled word.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500008 [AuthorName] => Marivic C. Faicol [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 722512 [Title] => Points revisited, o mga nais ipaalala [Summary] =>

A while back, I wrote two articles on language — one almost a year ago, and the other published just last April.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134405 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732449 [AuthorName] => Samantha King [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5682/ystar4thumb.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 688387 [Title] => Being proud of our own Filipino-English diction [Summary] =>

Every single day for the past 10 years on BBC World News, over 350 million people from all over the world wake up to the sound of my voice.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1701370 [AuthorName] => Rico M. Hizon [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 639888 [Title] => A wish list to telcos [Summary] =>

Mobile voice and data services have definitely helped many Filipinos be more productive and connected such that it’s now hard, if not impossible, to get through one day without a phone or Internet access.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1121789 [AuthorName] => Alma Buelva [SectionName] => Telecoms [SectionUrl] => telecoms [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 535868 [Title] => Feedback at yearend [Summary] =>

In response to our last column where we featured “Mismo, atbp.” among our relatively recent popular expressions — in Pinoy, Taglish and English — the poet-fictionist and our lifelong buddy Rowena Tiempo Torrevillas in wintry Iowa wrote:

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On Page 2 of your issue (December 22) I read that the House of Representatives will soon pass a bill that seeks to restore English as the principal medium of instruction in public schools. Interesting!

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Their influx into the United States may be leveling off or in decline according to anecdotal evidence, ...

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WASHINGTON – Their influx into the United States may be leveling off or in decline according to anecdotal evidence, ...

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