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DR. ERNIE E
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[Title] => A power crisis in the making
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And so there will be a new bidding for the assets of National Transmission Corp. (TransCo) The last one that attracted only one bidder to actually submit a bid has apparently been declared a failure…for the fourth time. This is just as well. Given the large amount involved and the vital importance of TransCo, maximum transparency is required, something that cannot be possible in a negotiated bid. Anything less could be questioned and end up hopelessly mired in arbitration just like NAIA 3.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-16 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Boo Chanco
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[ArticleID] => 378352
[Title] => Outsourcing blues
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ANAHEIM, California – Outsourcing, specially the variety that exports jobs, is bad trip for a lot of ordinary Americans. One hears a lot of grumbling not just about the loss of American jobs but the quality of service being provided by foreigners who replaced them. I normally dismiss such complaints as so much sourgraping, an inability to adjust to globalization, ironically, a basically American invention.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-05 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 377280
[Title] => Wishes for the New Year
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ANAHEIM, California — It is fun to watch the children, many with Mickey Mouse caps and other costumes from Disneyland walk along Harbor boulevard on their way to or from the enchanted kingdom. Oh, the innocence of childhood! Even the parents are into the act, dropping their daily concerns with chasing the buck for a few hours of frolic in a make believe world where all is always well.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-29 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 376257
[Title] => Will we run out of newsprint?
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The business community has time and again complained of extremely disruptive decisions of the judiciary that negatively affect the country’s business climate. Well, it seems the Supreme Court has done it again. This time, the decision may adversely affect the press, in the sense that its local newsprint supply could be compromised.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-22 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 374792
[Title] => The party’s over too soon
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No. I am not talking about the aborted ASEAN fiesta that was supposed to firmly put Cebu in the international tourism map. The cancellation certainly damaged Cebu’s and the country’s image. Nobody really believes it was the typhoon that aborted it. But it looks like there’s real rough weather to rain on Ate Glue’s parade. Her administration’s claims of economic gains seem all too short-lived, if at all.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-13 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 362410
[Title] => Peace and order: An investment disincentive
[Summary] => When I first heard about it last Sunday, I reacted with a bored yawn. I thought, what’s another NPA attack and burning to collect revolutionary taxes. The significance of the event escaped me, primarily because there had been so many such cases in recent months and we have grown used to such reports. Then again, as I read the full story in the Monday papers, it dawned on me that here is another problem that was not given proper attention when the topic of investment incentives was being discussed last week.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-11 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 362087
[Title] => But… what about domestic investors?
[Summary] => Towards the end of last week, Ate Glue and some locally based foreign businessmen talked about how to increase the level of foreign direct investments to this country. Ate Glue waxed ecstatic about the billion dollars in FDI that we are supposedly already attracting now, allegedly because she is managing the country well.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-09 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 333879
[Title] => Bus, taxi operators should pay taxes, too
[Summary] => Working together with the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is all set to implement tax rules on bus and taxi operators. This is something that is just, proper and about time. Transport operators have been getting away with tax free profits for so long now.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-28 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 311332
[Title] => Open NAIA-3 or expand Clark
[Summary] => Ate Glue, the President of our Strong Republic, has to make up her mind and show some leadership in the simple matter of having a decent airport. She has to either open NAIA-3 for business or give the green light for Clark Development Corp. (CDC) to expand the terminal building facilities at Clark.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => Will a Samar log ban save the forest?
[Summary] => Seven Catholic bishops claim to have convinced Environment Secretary Michael Defensor to continue the logging ban on Samar Island. According to Archbishop Pedro Dean of Palo, Leyte, the log ban covered the timber license agreement given to Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile’s San Jose Timber Corp. (SJTC) to cut trees in Samar’s rich forest reserve and nature park.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-05 00:00:00
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