METRO MANILAN

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                    [Title] => Reviewing MMDA laws on garbage
                    [Summary] => Have you noticed how junk vehicles or appliances left by owners on roadsides fronting their homes or shops cause traffic? Or how store owners impede pedestrians by leaving their stocks on sidewalks? Or how builders dump sand and gravel on roads and sidewalks beside construction sites, causing floods on rainy days?


All those are illegal under two Metro Manila Development Authority ordinances: 96-009 and 99-006. They were passed six and three years ago. Yet nobody seems to be obeying or enforcing them.


                    [DatePublished] => 2002-11-02 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134276
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                    [AuthorID] => 1805283
                    [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
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                    [ArticleID] => 136096
                    [Title] => Humps and human development
                    [Summary] => One waits for a TV or radio program where the intelligent-looking guest is asked by the good-looking host, "In which city  do you find the most number of humps for any given stretch of road? What is the name of this city better known as the hump capital of the world?"


For a million or two million depreciated pesos, even a self-respecting Metro Manilan might be tempted to forget about his public shame and thus acknowledge his own city as Ripley’s probable record holder.


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-10-09 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133858
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                    [AuthorID] => 1316794
                    [AuthorName] => Felipe B. Miranda
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                    [Title] => Thinking the unthinkable  - Chasing the Wind by Felipe B. Miranda
                    [Summary] => Imagine someone who does not approve of what one is doing as president of the Philippines, someone who also admits to distrusting the latter much.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-12-05 00:00:00
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Reviewing MMDA laws on garbage

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | November 2, 2002 - 12:00am

Have you noticed how junk vehicles or appliances left by owners on roadsides fronting their homes or shops cause traffic? Or how store owners impede pedestrians by leaving their stocks on sidewalks? Or how builders...

Opinion

Humps and human development

By CHASING THE WIND | By Felipe B. Miranda | October 9, 2001 - 12:00am

One waits for a TV or radio program where the intelligent-looking guest is asked by the good-looking host, "In which city do you find the most number of humps for any given stretch of road? What is the name...

Opinion

Thinking the unthinkable - Chasing the Wind by Felipe B. Miranda

December 5, 2000 - 12:00am

Imagine someone who does not approve of what one is doing as president of the Philippines, someone who also admits to distrusting the latter much.

Opinion