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[DatePublished] => 2005-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279828 [Title] => ME funding [Summary] => Did you know 1: The washrooms of Andrew Gotianun, Jr.-developed Festival Mall are much cleaner than neighbor, Alabang Town Center. Fact, even the pay lounges around Burnham Park in Baguio are better maintained than ATC.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229438 [Title] => Poveda, Pohvaydah, whatever [Summary] => Bragging rights 1: To distinguish themselves from their provincial-based brothers, students and alumni of Ateneo de Manila University refer to their school as "The Ateneo".
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 219736 [Title] => Absent on his first day of work [Summary] => Bank notes 1: Here’s one advantage of being with branches in a government financial institution.
Not one member of the branch network was, uh, selected to be part of the 100-man delegation that was bused to Villamor Airbase yesterday afternoon to greet President Macapagal-Arroyo, who arrived from Brunei. That was strictly head office staff.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216063 [Title] => UCPB’s new president meets branch heads [Summary] => The head office lobby of United Coconut Planters Bank was bursting with employees–the female staff visibly more excited than their male counterparts–when new president Jose Querubin and executive vice-president Andrew Alcid walked in. With the help of vice-president and Greater Manila head David Mercado, Mr. Querubin made it a point to shake the hand of each branch manager who attended.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213164 [Title] => No Divisoria haggling, please [Summary] => The schedule of San Miguel Corp. chairman and chief executive officer Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. in the coming months is a killer – an average of five provinces to visit every week.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205944 [Title] => Unlucky except in death [Summary] => If and when concert producer Beth Sison-de Tagle comes up with part two of the three tenors’ concert, President Macapagal-Arroyo has already volunteered Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho as a guest singer.
Good thing, since Lito Camacho’s repertoire is limited to the song, O Sole Mio.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203589 [Title] => 6% rating [Summary] => The number of basketball fans seem to be decreasing, judging from the current six-percent rating of Philippine Basketball Association games shown on television. Last year, the televised PBA games had an eight-percent rating. (Telenovelas can easily draw in 20 percent viewership.)
The poor TV rating of PBA games raises at least two questions.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185107 [Title] => Psst! Want a money-making machine? [Summary] => Go figure this one.
There’s still more than a couple of condo units available at One Roxas Triangle, where, as they say, if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it. There are also not that many takers for low-end housing projects, where the price is the only factor that matters.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279828 [Title] => ME funding [Summary] => Did you know 1: The washrooms of Andrew Gotianun, Jr.-developed Festival Mall are much cleaner than neighbor, Alabang Town Center. Fact, even the pay lounges around Burnham Park in Baguio are better maintained than ATC.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229438 [Title] => Poveda, Pohvaydah, whatever [Summary] => Bragging rights 1: To distinguish themselves from their provincial-based brothers, students and alumni of Ateneo de Manila University refer to their school as "The Ateneo".
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 219736 [Title] => Absent on his first day of work [Summary] => Bank notes 1: Here’s one advantage of being with branches in a government financial institution.
Not one member of the branch network was, uh, selected to be part of the 100-man delegation that was bused to Villamor Airbase yesterday afternoon to greet President Macapagal-Arroyo, who arrived from Brunei. That was strictly head office staff.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 216063 [Title] => UCPB’s new president meets branch heads [Summary] => The head office lobby of United Coconut Planters Bank was bursting with employees–the female staff visibly more excited than their male counterparts–when new president Jose Querubin and executive vice-president Andrew Alcid walked in. With the help of vice-president and Greater Manila head David Mercado, Mr. Querubin made it a point to shake the hand of each branch manager who attended.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213164 [Title] => No Divisoria haggling, please [Summary] => The schedule of San Miguel Corp. chairman and chief executive officer Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. in the coming months is a killer – an average of five provinces to visit every week.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205944 [Title] => Unlucky except in death [Summary] => If and when concert producer Beth Sison-de Tagle comes up with part two of the three tenors’ concert, President Macapagal-Arroyo has already volunteered Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho as a guest singer.
Good thing, since Lito Camacho’s repertoire is limited to the song, O Sole Mio.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203589 [Title] => 6% rating [Summary] => The number of basketball fans seem to be decreasing, judging from the current six-percent rating of Philippine Basketball Association games shown on television. Last year, the televised PBA games had an eight-percent rating. (Telenovelas can easily draw in 20 percent viewership.)
The poor TV rating of PBA games raises at least two questions.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185107 [Title] => Psst! Want a money-making machine? [Summary] => Go figure this one.
There’s still more than a couple of condo units available at One Roxas Triangle, where, as they say, if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it. There are also not that many takers for low-end housing projects, where the price is the only factor that matters.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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