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                    [Title] => Investment climate is still the problem
                    [Summary] => A bank CEO must be given a medal for doing his best to look at the bright side. In small talk with some of us last Thursday evening at the wake of STAR columnist Art Borjal, this CEO said he was elated earlier in the day when his bank’s leasing company reported the sale of two units of acquired assets. The assets in question were two second hand dump trucks.

[DatePublished] => 2002-06-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163733 [Title] => Borjal writes ‘30’ [Summary] => "Only when men die do they appear bigger than life," lawyer and journalist Art Borjal, one of the founders and a widely read columnist of The Philippine STAR, once wrote.

But even before he took his last breath yesterday after a three-year bout with cancer, Art, 64, was already larger than life.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163782 [Title] => Star columnist Art Borjal pumanaw na [Summary] => Sumakabilang buhay na kahapon ang sikat na STAR columnist na si Atty. Art Borjal sa sakit na lung cancer. Siya ay 64 anyos.

Naulila niya ang kanyang mga kapatid na sina Stella B. Cerdenia, Febe B. Cutshaw, Amelia B. Singson, Linda B. Belle at Lilia B. dela Pena at mga pamangkin.

Ang kanyang labi ay nakahimlay sa Mt. Carmel Shrine sa New Manila sa Quezon City at wala pang petsa ng libing.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 160879 [Title] => Companies with a heart [Summary] => Two years ago, EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, as a way of demonstrating its social responsibility and conscience, launched a beautiful Christmas project in coordination with the Good Samaritan Foundation. To raise funds for the charitable projects of the Good Samaritan Foundation, EDSA Shangri-La ordered big and small Christmas bells, hired lady Santa Clauses to offer them to guests of the hotel, with the promise that the bells, together with the donorsí names, will be strung in silver Christmas trees at the lobby of the hotel. [DatePublished] => 2002-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 160759 [Title] => A best friend [Summary] => I have just lost one of the best friends I ever had, a philanthropist, a blue-blooded Atenean, a man with a golden heart, one who devoted almost all of his entire life to the less fortunate in life, the fellow who inspired me to put up the Good Samaritan Foundation. He is Dr. Manuel Chua Chiaco Sr., almost 30 years older than I, my mentor on how to bring joy to the poorest of the poor. He passed away last Friday, May 10, 2002, and went home to God.
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It was Dr. [DatePublished] => 2002-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 160645 [Title] => Good news [Summary] => Here is good news about our country. We bagged two exhibition awards in the Korean tourism fair, besting 50 countries represented by some 500 organizations. We captured the overall championship in the Most Prominent Exhibitor competition and the Best Folklore Performance contest. [DatePublished] => 2002-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156471 [Title] => The good side of extra day [Summary] => Actually, other than boosting tourism, there are quite of number of benefits from the four-day work week policy for government employees. Note that the policy is not new; it has long been adopted in many other places throughout the world. [DatePublished] => 2002-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155757 [Title] => Time for reforms [Summary] => Now that another Lenten season and Easter Sunday have come and melted away, will the dawn of another season bring dramatic, pleasant changes and reforms in our land? Or will the status quo remain, where political squabbles, crab mentality, national disunity, selfishness, and other ugly attributes dominate our landscape? Will all those prayers uttered in Christian churches during the Holy Week be heeded and followed by our people, especially by our national leaders, so that the country’s road to economic and social recovery can begin in earnest? [DatePublished] => 2002-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155191 [Title] => The image makers [Summary] => Free trade is starting to hurt us badly. The problem with this ideology is that it does not take into account the national interest of the country but only the cold-hearted goal of efficiency. Efficiency is unfortunately equated with the unfettered opening of our market to dumped imports from rich and efficient countries. The underlying rule here is survival of the fittest. It is Michael Jordan against midgets such as us.
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This is a mismatch. [DatePublished] => 2002-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 152970 [Title] => Let Erap face the music [Summary] => If deposed President Estrada is allowed to go to the United States, the probability of his coming back will be remote. He himself hinted at this possibility. Since he can no longer trust the courts and the justice system here, Erap is not going to allow himself to be at the mercy of the Sandiganbayan. [DatePublished] => 2002-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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