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                    [Title] => Globe bags top award for corporate governance
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Globe Telecom received back-to-back citations from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and ATR KimEng Securities, Inc. for its outstanding practice in good corporate governance.

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Last Sunday, a mouse (you know, the one with the tail) was seen scampering along the curtain rod of one of the restaurant’s picture window.
* * *
Did you know 2: A fresh graduate of chemistry can get a monthly salary of P80,000. Why, that’s what a company with a forgettable name based in the Ortigas Commercial Center is offering.
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Talk is, Mr. Camacho was not the first choice though. You see, Bangko Sentral Governor Rafael Buenaventura turned down the offer.
* * *
Remember that recently circulated amateur sex VCD reminiscent of the one starring hotel heiress Paris Hilton?
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PureGold’s eighth store – this is the one along J.P. Rizal in Makati – opened yesterday with the usual celebration of mass, followed by hordes of shoppers who bought at least something before leaving.
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When his wife recently found out he has been maintaining a mistress in high style in New York for some time now, he quickly offered to buy his wife an equally resplendent place on the other side of the United States.
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The suspension, which took effect last Monday, was meted out when the company vehicle which the bank has been trying to get back from a retired officer was found in the residence of the SVP.

Now, here’s the dramatic part that took place over the weekend.
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                    [Title] => Globe bags top award for corporate governance
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Globe Telecom received back-to-back citations from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and ATR KimEng Securities, Inc. for its outstanding practice in good corporate governance.

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[DatePublished] => 2005-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1357954 [AuthorName] => Ignacio B. Gimenez [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259875 [Title] => Unwelcome resident [Summary] => Did you know 1: A foreign restaurant franchise based in probably the hottest mall in Metro Manila has at least one unwelcome resident.

Last Sunday, a mouse (you know, the one with the tail) was seen scampering along the curtain rod of one of the restaurant’s picture window.
* * *
Did you know 2: A fresh graduate of chemistry can get a monthly salary of P80,000. Why, that’s what a company with a forgettable name based in the Ortigas Commercial Center is offering.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 247848 [Title] => X-rated banker [Summary] => Former Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho was paid P500,000 for endorsing a product of Pascual Laboratories. The amount is equivalent to close to a year’s pay of Lito Camacho at the DOF.

Talk is, Mr. Camacho was not the first choice though. You see, Bangko Sentral Governor Rafael Buenaventura turned down the offer.
* * *
Remember that recently circulated amateur sex VCD reminiscent of the one starring hotel heiress Paris Hilton?
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231831 [Title] => A P500 Louis Vuitton bag [Summary] => Did you know 1: Former Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho was seen last week hanging out in the room at the Development Bank of the Philippines, which was assigned to him when he was still the boss of all government financial institutions.
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PureGold’s eighth store – this is the one along J.P. Rizal in Makati – opened yesterday with the usual celebration of mass, followed by hordes of shoppers who bought at least something before leaving.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135040 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488513 [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey  [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226656 [Title] => High maintenance wife, high maintenance mistress [Summary] => A member of the working rich, who thrives on exotic-looking women in the Ermita area, was recently caught with his pants down.

When his wife recently found out he has been maintaining a mistress in high style in New York for some time now, he quickly offered to buy his wife an equally resplendent place on the other side of the United States.
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The suspension, which took effect last Monday, was meted out when the company vehicle which the bank has been trying to get back from a retired officer was found in the residence of the SVP.

Now, here’s the dramatic part that took place over the weekend.
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