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                    [Title] => Socialism with Chinese features
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It seemed an odd place to be. In this Chinese city, the capital of Guangxi, opposites clash the way it does not at other more prominent cities in China I have been to — Beijing, Shanghai or Hong Kong.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 723227 [Title] => A charm offensive [Summary] =>

I don’t know if it is coincidental but the International Conference of Asian Political Parties is holding a special forum immediately after President Aquino’s state visit to China.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 583547 [Title] => The Gentler Civilizer of Nations [Summary] =>

On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, the CD-rom “Philippine Treaties Index, 1946-2010 and the accompanying index book “International Law: The Gentler Civilizer of Nations” will be launched at the DFA FSI Library.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 571237 [Title] => Citizen journalism - boon or bane? [Summary] =>

Some people might be fazed by the ferocity of the present presidential campaign but it has an upside. It means that a discussion is taking place to educate our voters.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 565122 [Title] => A sentimental journey [Summary] =>

It has been a long time since I visited this fabled city. The last time I did was in 1972 when my family and I stopped for a while to visit a sister-in-law on our way to New York where my late husband, Ambassador Alberto A. Pedrosa, was sent by his then bosses, the Lopezes of Meralco, to take up a new post.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 516959 [Title] => Journey to Hua Hin [Summary] =>

It is understandable if President GMA considers how the Philippines could take part in the $5 billion calamity fund as on top of her agenda.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 452790 [Title] => Crisis becomes opportunity [Summary] =>

The oil spill off Guimaras almost two years ago was tragic.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 18892 [Title] => The road to Mandalay [Summary] => I was in Hong Kong recently and chanced upon the Orient Express Magazine which included an interesting article on “Cruise the Road to Mandalay”. [DatePublished] => 2007-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 184827 [Title] => The Prince, Meralco, Texas 10, and CCN [Summary] => Sometimes it happens that there are more things I want to write about than there is space to write them on. This is one of those times. In the past week, the visit of Cambodia’s Prince Ranariddh, the Supreme Court decision against Meralco, Texas 10 update and Constitutional Change Now were vying for space as far as this column was concerned.
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The Prince. [DatePublished] => 2002-11-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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