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                    [Title] => Japan extends ¥300-M grant to RP
                    [Summary] => 



Japan is extending a ¥300-million grant to the Philippines intended specifically for Filipino rice farmers.


According to Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, the Japan Grant Assistance for Underprivileged Farmers, previously known as the 2KR (Kennedy Round) grant, was approved by the Japanese government last December. This helps small palay farmers purchase ammonium sulphate fertilizer totaling some 20,000 metric tons.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347458 [Title] => US July 4 celebration: A bridge to memories [Summary] => The title is not original; "A Bridge to Old Memories" is from an American magazine. In fact, our house is cluttered with back issues of Life, Time, Newsweek, The Saturday Review of Literature, The New Yorker, Dialogue, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, Seventeen, etc. You might say that colonial mentality here takes on a very literate form.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321123 [Title] => Ching Symphony to be premiered in Berlin / Classix / Other events [Summary] => Just received is the following exciting news for cognoscenti and music lovers:
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309504 [Title] => Japanese ventriloquist / Yatco-Gutierrez concert: Reprising a review [Summary] => At the embassy residence, Ambassador Ryuichiro Yamazaki presented illusion artist Ikkoku Tamaki, a young, brilliant Japanese ventriloquist who has performed in Las Vegas, and other major US cities with immense success, and won numerous awards.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 300591 [Title] => Japan-Phil duo concert / US presents RP artists / Lacoste 12.12 project [Summary] => Two women – the slim and pretty Japanese violinist Reiko Otami, and our own legendary pianist, the equally slim and pretty Nena R. Villanueva – interpreted at the CCP main theater a formidable widely diverse program of sonatas that started with Mozart’s in E Minor and ended with Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20. In-between were Brahms’ Sonata No. 2 in A Major, E. Ysaye’s Sonata No. 6 in E Major for Violin Solo, Hika by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, and Debussy’s Claire de Lune.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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