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KARACHI – The news as I arrived in this Pakistani port city yesterday, apart from the US elections, was that an Al-Qaeda operative based in Britain had been sentenced after pleading guilty to plotting bomb attacks in London, Washington, New York and New Jersey.

[DatePublished] => 2006-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355720 [Title] => Disconnect [Summary] => BALI – At the height of the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping rampage, the government took pains to emphasize that Sulu and Basilan, where the mostly foreign hostages had been taken, were far from Manila and were not tourist destinations.

The attempt at damage control was largely futile; bookings were canceled and tourists stayed away from the entire country for many months. People in the tourism industry complained that no marketing blitz could counteract the daily bombardment of bad news in both the foreign and domestic press about the "southern Philippines."
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320732 [Title] => The wrong kind of judgment from the ‘animal kingdom’ [Summary] => There was indeed deplorable, even fatal negligence in the crowd handling at ULTRA which deteriorated into a crazy stampede in which 74, mostly women and children (very few men) were killed in the crush, and hundreds of others injured. But for Interior Undersecretary Marius Corpus to declare that ABS-CBN had exploited the poor and treated the fans "like animals" is too harsh – in fact, unjust.

This accusation, by the way, has already been quoted in the overseas press.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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KARACHI – The news as I arrived in this Pakistani port city yesterday, apart from the US elections, was that an Al-Qaeda operative based in Britain had been sentenced after pleading guilty to plotting bomb attacks in London, Washington, New York and New Jersey.

[DatePublished] => 2006-11-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355720 [Title] => Disconnect [Summary] => BALI – At the height of the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping rampage, the government took pains to emphasize that Sulu and Basilan, where the mostly foreign hostages had been taken, were far from Manila and were not tourist destinations.

The attempt at damage control was largely futile; bookings were canceled and tourists stayed away from the entire country for many months. People in the tourism industry complained that no marketing blitz could counteract the daily bombardment of bad news in both the foreign and domestic press about the "southern Philippines."
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320732 [Title] => The wrong kind of judgment from the ‘animal kingdom’ [Summary] => There was indeed deplorable, even fatal negligence in the crowd handling at ULTRA which deteriorated into a crazy stampede in which 74, mostly women and children (very few men) were killed in the crush, and hundreds of others injured. But for Interior Undersecretary Marius Corpus to declare that ABS-CBN had exploited the poor and treated the fans "like animals" is too harsh – in fact, unjust.

This accusation, by the way, has already been quoted in the overseas press.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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