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                    [ArticleID] => 93835
                    [Title] => Tan: We lost in public perception
                    [Summary] => 

He is leaving one of the government's "dirtiest" agencies on Monday. But lawyer Nelson Tan believes he was not a total failure in the one year and two weeks he has served as Bureau of Customs chief.

Tan, who at 37 became the country's youngest Customs commissioner, said he was able to institute reforms in the bureau, although the public did not see it.

"We lost in public perception," he said. "The thing is we do not tell the media everything we do. I do not deny that there had been smuggling. What country does not have? [DatePublished] => 2000-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

HE AND TAN
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    [results] => Array
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                    [ArticleID] => 93835
                    [Title] => Tan: We lost in public perception
                    [Summary] => 

He is leaving one of the government's "dirtiest" agencies on Monday. But lawyer Nelson Tan believes he was not a total failure in the one year and two weeks he has served as Bureau of Customs chief.

Tan, who at 37 became the country's youngest Customs commissioner, said he was able to institute reforms in the bureau, although the public did not see it.

"We lost in public perception," he said. "The thing is we do not tell the media everything we do. I do not deny that there had been smuggling. What country does not have? [DatePublished] => 2000-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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