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The highest number of working children were from Luzon, followed by Central Visayas and Eastern Visayas. There were close to two million working children aged ten to 14 and 1.8 million aged 14 to 17.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 306533 [Title] => Letter to the Editor - Let's go ahead with Charter change [Summary] => I maintain that unless we amend the Constitution, we can never achieve genuine reforms and attain a non-simulated progress.
The present system has to be changed from presidential to that of parliamentary/federal form of government.
Look what the present system has done to our country and people. It only enriched those who are in power but impoverished the rest of us. Corruption continues without letup, and government services remain to be desired. Why stick to the present system?
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 294893 [Title] => Letter to the Editor - Clearing her name [Summary] => We were glad when President Gloria Arroyo prompted the opposition to file impeachment charges against her so she can defend herself and clear her name.
Now we are sad by what her allies in Congress did, depriving her of that opportunity to prove her innocence. The issue remains unresolved and the accusations are left hanging. This is bad for the country.
To me, the killing of the impeachment charges did more harm than good to President Arroyo.
Antolin M. De La Serna
Guadalupe, Cebu City [DatePublished] => 2005-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288061 [Title] => LETTER TO THE EDITOR - They say we've been lying, cheating, and stealing all the way! [Summary] => In a tv interview, a prominent lady lawyer lamented on how miserable our image have been as a country and people. As we all know, we've earned the title as one of the most corrupt in the world. "Now," she said without throwing the blame on anybody, "is the time to stop lying, cheating, and stealing for the sake of the country."
But, who's going to cast the first stone? Everybody is saying, "I'm not a liar, I'm not a cheat nor a thief." On the other hand, standbys in the streets would ask: "Kinsa ba goy dili nato bakakon, dili tikasan ug dili kawatan?" That ends the story.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286399 [Title] => Di ba niingon ko it's the system? [Summary] => I've been telling you guys, since 20 to 30 years ago, nga ang root sa atong problema, dili ang tawo, kundili, ang system. Gani, dihay akong mga sinuwat nga akong giingon nga ang demokrasya di angay natong mga Pinoy.
Mga iresponsabli ta, waay disiplina, waay nationalism - sa ato pa, dili "bayan muna," kondili, "ako muna." Mao kini kita. Maoy hinungdan nga pakyas kitang tanan. Pakyas kita isip lungsoranon, ug pakyas ang panggobiyerno. Maoy hinungdan nga naingon kita niini karon.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134484 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1366636 [AuthorName] => IYO ANTOY Ni Antolin dela Serna [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 98363 [Title] => Ten Outstanding Filipinos receive awards [Summary] => Leaders from government, business, and education converged at the Insular Life auditorium on Dec. 13, 2000 to salute the winners of The Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Award. The awardees were Corazon S. De la Paz for public accountancy; Antolin M. Oreta Sr. for engineering; Justice Flerida Ruth P. Romero for law and justice; Lawrence C. Qua for technopreneurship; and Ambassador Alfonso T. [DatePublished] => 2000-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 98134 [Title] => TOFIL winners bared [Summary] => Five outstanding professionals have been chosen to receive this years The Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Award.
The five awardees are: Corazon Santos-de la Paz for Public Accounting; Antolin M. Oreta, Sr. for Engineering; Lawrence C. Cua for Technopreneurship; Justice Flerida Ruth P. Romero for Justice and Law; and Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco for Business and Entrepreneurship.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
The highest number of working children were from Luzon, followed by Central Visayas and Eastern Visayas. There were close to two million working children aged ten to 14 and 1.8 million aged 14 to 17.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 306533 [Title] => Letter to the Editor - Let's go ahead with Charter change [Summary] => I maintain that unless we amend the Constitution, we can never achieve genuine reforms and attain a non-simulated progress.
The present system has to be changed from presidential to that of parliamentary/federal form of government.
Look what the present system has done to our country and people. It only enriched those who are in power but impoverished the rest of us. Corruption continues without letup, and government services remain to be desired. Why stick to the present system?
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 294893 [Title] => Letter to the Editor - Clearing her name [Summary] => We were glad when President Gloria Arroyo prompted the opposition to file impeachment charges against her so she can defend herself and clear her name.
Now we are sad by what her allies in Congress did, depriving her of that opportunity to prove her innocence. The issue remains unresolved and the accusations are left hanging. This is bad for the country.
To me, the killing of the impeachment charges did more harm than good to President Arroyo.
Antolin M. De La Serna
Guadalupe, Cebu City [DatePublished] => 2005-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288061 [Title] => LETTER TO THE EDITOR - They say we've been lying, cheating, and stealing all the way! [Summary] => In a tv interview, a prominent lady lawyer lamented on how miserable our image have been as a country and people. As we all know, we've earned the title as one of the most corrupt in the world. "Now," she said without throwing the blame on anybody, "is the time to stop lying, cheating, and stealing for the sake of the country."
But, who's going to cast the first stone? Everybody is saying, "I'm not a liar, I'm not a cheat nor a thief." On the other hand, standbys in the streets would ask: "Kinsa ba goy dili nato bakakon, dili tikasan ug dili kawatan?" That ends the story.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286399 [Title] => Di ba niingon ko it's the system? [Summary] => I've been telling you guys, since 20 to 30 years ago, nga ang root sa atong problema, dili ang tawo, kundili, ang system. Gani, dihay akong mga sinuwat nga akong giingon nga ang demokrasya di angay natong mga Pinoy.
Mga iresponsabli ta, waay disiplina, waay nationalism - sa ato pa, dili "bayan muna," kondili, "ako muna." Mao kini kita. Maoy hinungdan nga pakyas kitang tanan. Pakyas kita isip lungsoranon, ug pakyas ang panggobiyerno. Maoy hinungdan nga naingon kita niini karon.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134484 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1366636 [AuthorName] => IYO ANTOY Ni Antolin dela Serna [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 98363 [Title] => Ten Outstanding Filipinos receive awards [Summary] => Leaders from government, business, and education converged at the Insular Life auditorium on Dec. 13, 2000 to salute the winners of The Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Award. The awardees were Corazon S. De la Paz for public accountancy; Antolin M. Oreta Sr. for engineering; Justice Flerida Ruth P. Romero for law and justice; Lawrence C. Qua for technopreneurship; and Ambassador Alfonso T. [DatePublished] => 2000-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 98134 [Title] => TOFIL winners bared [Summary] => Five outstanding professionals have been chosen to receive this years The Outstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Award.
The five awardees are: Corazon Santos-de la Paz for Public Accounting; Antolin M. Oreta, Sr. for Engineering; Lawrence C. Cua for Technopreneurship; Justice Flerida Ruth P. Romero for Justice and Law; and Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco for Business and Entrepreneurship.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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