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Our esteemed guest recently on our One-on-One segment of Biz Watch, the business section of Business & Leisure, the television show, was Mr. Ed Lacson, president of the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and our topic was the excessive national paid holidays that we have in this country.

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There is a new global phenomenon and the Philippines is now a part of it.

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Teleconferencing has really come of age now that we have several multinational companies operating within our shores.

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We ran a few weeks of our cruise in this column, and we thank our countless readers who sent their varied reactions to our short but thoroughly enjoyable European sojourn.

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                    [Title] => The country’s holidays galore
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Our esteemed guest recently on our One-on-One segment of Biz Watch, the business section of Business & Leisure, the television show, was Mr. Ed Lacson, president of the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and our topic was the excessive national paid holidays that we have in this country.

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There is a new global phenomenon and the Philippines is now a part of it.

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Teleconferencing has really come of age now that we have several multinational companies operating within our shores.

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We ran a few weeks of our cruise in this column, and we thank our countless readers who sent their varied reactions to our short but thoroughly enjoyable European sojourn.

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