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[DatePublished] => 2004-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229682 [Title] => Prince of darkness [Summary] => In the Visayas, Energy Secretary Vicen-te Perez Jr. is derisively called the "prince of darkness", not because of his complexion but because of his perceived inaction on the power crisis.
Cebu currently suffers from intermittent power outages while Bacolod has had one or two brownouts in recent weeks that could not be traced to jelly fish or to the tripping of the transmission grid.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133230 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226291 [Title] => Punching incident [Summary] => Even with an arm injury, the chairman packs a wallop – right to the face of his secretary. You see, the secretary inadvertently spilled some hot coffee on her boss.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 222557 [Title] => Not aged after all [Summary] => Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. president and chief executive officer Manuel Pangilinan still has to decide whether or not to continue its corporate support of ABS-CBN Foundation Inc.’s Bantay Bata 163 program.
You see, PLDT has been helping out the program headed by Cristina Monzon-Palma by not charging a centavo for all those hotlines used to report cases of child abuse.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 222422 [Title] => Vistan elected UCPB chairman [Summary] => Veteran banker Deogracias Vistan has been elected chairman of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), taking over from Edward Go, another veteran banker who successfully negotiated for the rehabilitation of the beleaguered bank.
Vistan was appointed as one of eight nominees of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Co (PDIC) which took over UCPB after infusing a total of P20 billion to save the bank.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 221570 [Title] => PCGG nominees holding on to UCPB board seats [Summary] => After infusing P20 billion into United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) is still unable to take full control of the bank as the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) continued to hold on to all nine of its remaining seats in the board of directors.
UCPB has managed to operate smoothly during the transition period when a new president was appointed and former chairman Eduardo Go resigned from the bank, but PDIC’s failure to take over the bank has created uncertainties despite the efforts to normalize management.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213726 [Title] => Pinoy soap in Kenya [Summary] => Did you know 1: If we are importing TV soaps from Taiwan, Korea, and Mexico, we are also exporting our own to Africa.
Why, that telenovela (I forget which one because they all have similar titles hinting of unrequited love) with actress Kristine Hermosa in it is now being shown on Kenyan TV.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213005 [Title] => PDIC names reps to UCPB board [Summary] => The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) has named their eight representatives to the 15-man board of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), led by incumbent chairman Edward Go and newly-appointed president and chief executive officer Jose Querubin.
Sources revealed yesterday that the PDIC has finalized the short list of nominees to the UCPB’s policy making body, adding five more names to the initial list of three representatives.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => 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] => ) ) )
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229682 [Title] => Prince of darkness [Summary] => In the Visayas, Energy Secretary Vicen-te Perez Jr. is derisively called the "prince of darkness", not because of his complexion but because of his perceived inaction on the power crisis.
Cebu currently suffers from intermittent power outages while Bacolod has had one or two brownouts in recent weeks that could not be traced to jelly fish or to the tripping of the transmission grid.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133230 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226291 [Title] => Punching incident [Summary] => Even with an arm injury, the chairman packs a wallop – right to the face of his secretary. You see, the secretary inadvertently spilled some hot coffee on her boss.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 222557 [Title] => Not aged after all [Summary] => Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. president and chief executive officer Manuel Pangilinan still has to decide whether or not to continue its corporate support of ABS-CBN Foundation Inc.’s Bantay Bata 163 program.
You see, PLDT has been helping out the program headed by Cristina Monzon-Palma by not charging a centavo for all those hotlines used to report cases of child abuse.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 222422 [Title] => Vistan elected UCPB chairman [Summary] => Veteran banker Deogracias Vistan has been elected chairman of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), taking over from Edward Go, another veteran banker who successfully negotiated for the rehabilitation of the beleaguered bank.
Vistan was appointed as one of eight nominees of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Co (PDIC) which took over UCPB after infusing a total of P20 billion to save the bank.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 221570 [Title] => PCGG nominees holding on to UCPB board seats [Summary] => After infusing P20 billion into United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) is still unable to take full control of the bank as the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) continued to hold on to all nine of its remaining seats in the board of directors.
UCPB has managed to operate smoothly during the transition period when a new president was appointed and former chairman Eduardo Go resigned from the bank, but PDIC’s failure to take over the bank has created uncertainties despite the efforts to normalize management.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213726 [Title] => Pinoy soap in Kenya [Summary] => Did you know 1: If we are importing TV soaps from Taiwan, Korea, and Mexico, we are also exporting our own to Africa.
Why, that telenovela (I forget which one because they all have similar titles hinting of unrequited love) with actress Kristine Hermosa in it is now being shown on Kenyan TV.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 213005 [Title] => PDIC names reps to UCPB board [Summary] => The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) has named their eight representatives to the 15-man board of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), led by incumbent chairman Edward Go and newly-appointed president and chief executive officer Jose Querubin.
Sources revealed yesterday that the PDIC has finalized the short list of nominees to the UCPB’s policy making body, adding five more names to the initial list of three representatives.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => 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] => ) ) )
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