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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 411580 [Title] => To act is to win [Summary] =>KUALA LUMPUR — Before I left Manila I was privileged to speak to a group organized by “Mahal Ko, Bayan ...
[DatePublished] => 2008-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329924 [Title] => Globe network reaches 97% of RP population! [Summary] => It has become an annual event for the Cebu and Mindanao media to attend Globe Telecoms annual stockholders meeting. By inviting the media outside of Metro Manila to this annual corporate event, allow me to say that Globe Telecom is the first and only multinational company that believes that Manila is not the Philippines and the Philippines is not Manila. After all, Globe Telecoms aggressive programs have now reached 97 percent of Filipinos.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290428 [Title] => JDV calls for nationwide consultations on Cha-cha [Summary] => Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. called yesterday for nationwide barangay consultations on Cha-cha (Charter change) to be conducted by congressmen, governors and mayors.
He said these officials should complete the consultations within a month and forward their results to the House, which is largely pushing for Charter change, and the Senate, whose members have vowed that Cha-cha would be "dead on arrival" in their chamber.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287799 [Title] => Vibrant democracy [Summary] => Some political activists may have been disappointed with the US statement that it was remaining neutral as far as personalities are concerned. The US government said it was backing vibrant democracy.
Filipinos will just have to sort themselves out on what is best for them. I suppose that is what Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Scott Bellard means when he refused to be sucked in by the political intramurals. But some ground rules are shaping as the fight heats up.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279530 [Title] => Not for the weak-hearted [Summary] => As the Philippine government moves closer to the moment of truth whether President GMA will support charter change in the next Congress, I am reminded of my favorite character in English literature, Joseph Conrads Lord Jim.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276720 [Title] => Back on track [Summary] => With dark forebodings of what the country faces unless drastic reforms are made soon, charter change looms as the constitutional way out of the dilemma. Gen. Fortunato Abat is patriotic and a good man but he must know that any seizure of power through extralegal means at this time, however well intentioned, is doomed to fail. As another columnist has said, we have gone through this before and it did not work. It did not work because good intentions do not necessarily translate to good government. [DatePublished] => 2005-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213493 [Title] => Metro Manilans in favor of Cha-cha [Summary] => Previously stymied by weak public support for Charter change (Cha-cha), Western Samar Rep. Antonio Nachura said yesterday public opinion is turning in favor of constitutional revisions as shown by a survey conducted by the private pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS).
Nachura, chairman of the House committee on constitutional amendments, said the House-commissioned survey, conducted from June 26 to July 3 involving 300 voters in Metro Manila, showed that 42 percent of respondents approved of Cha-cha.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206174 [Title] => Lawmakers sign social contract [Summary] => They now have a "social contract" to dispel fears and allegations surrounding the House move to amend the 1987 Constitution.
Charter change proponents in the House of Representatives yesterday signed the "Social Contract for Constitutional Reform" at the historic Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan.
Members of the House led by Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and the presidents of the Leagues of Municipalities and Cities and representatives of non-government organizations (NGOs) signed the contract.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
CHARTER CHANGE NOW
Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 411580 [Title] => To act is to win [Summary] =>KUALA LUMPUR — Before I left Manila I was privileged to speak to a group organized by “Mahal Ko, Bayan ...
[DatePublished] => 2008-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329924 [Title] => Globe network reaches 97% of RP population! [Summary] => It has become an annual event for the Cebu and Mindanao media to attend Globe Telecoms annual stockholders meeting. By inviting the media outside of Metro Manila to this annual corporate event, allow me to say that Globe Telecom is the first and only multinational company that believes that Manila is not the Philippines and the Philippines is not Manila. After all, Globe Telecoms aggressive programs have now reached 97 percent of Filipinos.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290428 [Title] => JDV calls for nationwide consultations on Cha-cha [Summary] => Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. called yesterday for nationwide barangay consultations on Cha-cha (Charter change) to be conducted by congressmen, governors and mayors.
He said these officials should complete the consultations within a month and forward their results to the House, which is largely pushing for Charter change, and the Senate, whose members have vowed that Cha-cha would be "dead on arrival" in their chamber.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287799 [Title] => Vibrant democracy [Summary] => Some political activists may have been disappointed with the US statement that it was remaining neutral as far as personalities are concerned. The US government said it was backing vibrant democracy.
Filipinos will just have to sort themselves out on what is best for them. I suppose that is what Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Scott Bellard means when he refused to be sucked in by the political intramurals. But some ground rules are shaping as the fight heats up.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279530 [Title] => Not for the weak-hearted [Summary] => As the Philippine government moves closer to the moment of truth whether President GMA will support charter change in the next Congress, I am reminded of my favorite character in English literature, Joseph Conrads Lord Jim.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 276720 [Title] => Back on track [Summary] => With dark forebodings of what the country faces unless drastic reforms are made soon, charter change looms as the constitutional way out of the dilemma. Gen. Fortunato Abat is patriotic and a good man but he must know that any seizure of power through extralegal means at this time, however well intentioned, is doomed to fail. As another columnist has said, we have gone through this before and it did not work. It did not work because good intentions do not necessarily translate to good government. [DatePublished] => 2005-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213493 [Title] => Metro Manilans in favor of Cha-cha [Summary] => Previously stymied by weak public support for Charter change (Cha-cha), Western Samar Rep. Antonio Nachura said yesterday public opinion is turning in favor of constitutional revisions as shown by a survey conducted by the private pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS).
Nachura, chairman of the House committee on constitutional amendments, said the House-commissioned survey, conducted from June 26 to July 3 involving 300 voters in Metro Manila, showed that 42 percent of respondents approved of Cha-cha.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206174 [Title] => Lawmakers sign social contract [Summary] => They now have a "social contract" to dispel fears and allegations surrounding the House move to amend the 1987 Constitution.
Charter change proponents in the House of Representatives yesterday signed the "Social Contract for Constitutional Reform" at the historic Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan.
Members of the House led by Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and the presidents of the Leagues of Municipalities and Cities and representatives of non-government organizations (NGOs) signed the contract.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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