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                    [Title] => Swine, pork parehong baboy
                    [Summary] => 

LUBHANG naaalipusta na ang lahi ng mga baboy sabi ng barbero kong si Mang Gustin.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 720294 [Title] => Rope-a-dope = no contact [Summary] =>

I can still recall how many opponents of the legendary heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali were so frustrated when they could not land a punch because Ali would “float” all over the ring, instead of trade punches like other boxers used to.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133943 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804831 [AuthorName] => Cito Beltran [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 600906 [Title] => La Salle's aim [Summary] =>

For years De La Salle University has been aiming to have a graduate school like its rival Ateneo de Manila University.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135724 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 304426 [Title] => Manager ng Westin ipapatawag ng Senado [Summary] => Nakatakdang ipatawag ng Senado ang general manager ng Westin Philippine Plaza Hotel sa Pasay City dahil sa pagtago nila kay dating Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn "Joc-Joc" Bolante habang isinisilbi ang subpoena para sa huli.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264229 [Title] => Is China replacing America? [Summary] => It is bound to happen... maybe in 10, 20 years or even less. Economists and political scientists have been saying that China may be the next superpower, eclipsing America. This is China’s century, they say. The sleeping dragon has awakened! All 1.2 billion of China’s teeming masses are on their way to establish the world’s largest market economy and newest political superpower.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 257138 [Title] => Corn farmers cited [Summary] => The government, through the Department of Agriculture (DA), CropLife Philippines, and Pioneer Hi-Bred Philippines recently presented successful farmers planting Bt corn — the corn borer pest-resistant hybrid varieties currently being commercialized in the Philippines — to the public during the DA’s "Mais Pangkabuhayan" week-long event held at the agency’s office in Quezon City. The DA and Pioneer provided separate plaques of recognition to the farmers’ for their high productivity using the new farming technology product.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Real Estate [SectionUrl] => real-estate [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 256065 [Title] => Are we facing a rice shortage? [Summary] => Day 3 of the new Ate Glo presidency and she may have to add a looming rice crisis in her list of immediate worries. I was just talking with some of the guys in charge of buying the rice distributed to employees of a major corporate group and I was told that a sack of rice that previously cost P980 has gone up to over a thousand pesos. Some suppliers are quoting as high as P1,500.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254779 [Title] => Making businessmen out of farmers [Summary] => The only way we can make something out of our agricultural sector, Sen. Serge Osmeña once told me, is for us to make successful businessmen out of our farmers. Dropping by the Edsa Plaza Tuesday Club last week, Agriculture Secretary Cito Lorenzo confirmed the effectiveness of that approach. Cito said the stellar performance of agriculture so far this year could be traced not just to better seeds and weather but the provision of credit facilities for farmers.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 252323 [Title] => Let’s not get left behind [Summary] => ANAHEIM, California – Free trade, and how to benefit from it, is as misunderstood here in this bastion of capitalism and free enterprise, as it is back home. The big issue that is looming in the horizon here is the proposed free trade area with Central American republics. As in the case of NAFTA, the debate centers on potential job losses for American workers.
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