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                    [Title] => 'Text message' ni Binay kumalat
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Itinanggi ni Vice-President Jejomar Binay na mula sa kanyang kampo ang kumalat na text messages na ipinadala sa iba’t ibang tao sa panahon ng Semana Santa.

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[DatePublished] => 2004-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255237 [Title] => Strong Republic na sana, ano? [Summary] => A frustrated politician confesses on nationwide television that he is the culprit responsible for all those nasty spikes scattered on the nation’s highways from EDSA to Kennon Road. When I heard him boasting of his feat as an act of protest, I felt that this is the kind of social psychopath we created governments to protect us from. I fully expected the police to track him down posthaste and the courts of justice ordering that he be hung by his balls from a tree in the garbage dumpsite in Payatas over a bed of spikes.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255086 [Title] => A job well done [Summary] => There is hardly anything that goes right in this country. The simplest things are confounded beyond understanding. The most straightforward tasks suffer systematic complications ensuring their habitual non-performance. The nation’s most urgent concerns are subjected to criminal procrastination, even heinous abandonment, precisely by those tasked by law to manage them.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133858 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1316794 [AuthorName] => Felipe B. Miranda [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 247162 [Title] => GMA to open CHED Palaro [Summary] => BACOLOD CITY — President Arroyo will be the guest of honor when the Palarong Pambansa of the Commission on Higher Education at the Panaad Park on Friday at 4 p.m.

Almost 3,000 athletes and coaches from 17 regions will see action in the games which will end on April 28, said Peter Mendoza, secretary-general of the 2004 games.

The games, which focuses on the theme, "Unity through Sports for a Strong Republic, are hosted by the University of St. La Salle.

Seventeen team titles are at stake in the competition which includes 10 sports disciplines.
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Under the program, students in 3rd and 4th year college can each borrow up to P8,000 every semester, which is payable two years after graduation.

Loans less than P4,000 can be paid within five years, while those beyond P4,000 is payable within 10 years.
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No one expects her to produce the miracles she promised to do last year. There just isn’t enough money, for instance, to build all those schoolhouses and low cost homes. But then again, I am not sure we expected all the man-made catastrophes in the past year either.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214878 [Title] => Former student gives Arroyo passing grade [Summary] => On a scale of one to ten, President Arroyo scored a passing grade of 7.8 on fulfilling the commitments she made in last year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Rep. Joey Salceda (Lakas, 3rd district of Albay) said yesterday.

Salceda, chairman of the House oversight committee on the commitments made by the President in her address in 2002, gave his former economics mentor a passing grade in a briefing he conducted yesterday at Malacañang, where he gave out copies of his committee’s preliminary findings on the SONA 2002 accomplishments.
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                    [Title] => 'Text message' ni Binay kumalat
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Itinanggi ni Vice-President Jejomar Binay na mula sa kanyang kampo ang kumalat na text messages na ipinadala sa iba’t ibang tao sa panahon ng Semana Santa.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1605495 [AuthorName] => Ni Rudy Andal [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 401067 [Title] => Are we a Strong Republic with a weak military? [Summary] => There is no question that the men and women of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are among the best fighting forces ... [DatePublished] => 2008-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267641 [Title] => 2005: Toward a Strong Republic? [Summary] => The 9-intensity magnitude seaquake that hit South East Asia - the fifth strongest tectonic disturbance _ certainly is the biggest jolt on earth since 1899. It was only second to the 1964 9.2-intensity magnitude earthquake that jolted Prince William Sound in Alaska. The seaquake off the island of Sumatra the day after Christmas was so strong that scientists discovered that it made the Earth’s spin wobble. [DatePublished] => 2005-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 266534 [Title] => Are you sad? [Summary] => My friend Michael, a Chinese-American, came back to the Philippines three years ago to work for an international financial organization. He lived in Manila for almost a year in the mid-70s while working for a multinational bank. He spent a good number of his early childhood years in the Philippines, when his father was assigned here as a diplomat.
[DatePublished] => 2004-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135045 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632939 [AuthorName] => NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255237 [Title] => Strong Republic na sana, ano? [Summary] => A frustrated politician confesses on nationwide television that he is the culprit responsible for all those nasty spikes scattered on the nation’s highways from EDSA to Kennon Road. When I heard him boasting of his feat as an act of protest, I felt that this is the kind of social psychopath we created governments to protect us from. I fully expected the police to track him down posthaste and the courts of justice ordering that he be hung by his balls from a tree in the garbage dumpsite in Payatas over a bed of spikes.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255086 [Title] => A job well done [Summary] => There is hardly anything that goes right in this country. The simplest things are confounded beyond understanding. The most straightforward tasks suffer systematic complications ensuring their habitual non-performance. The nation’s most urgent concerns are subjected to criminal procrastination, even heinous abandonment, precisely by those tasked by law to manage them.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133858 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1316794 [AuthorName] => Felipe B. Miranda [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 247162 [Title] => GMA to open CHED Palaro [Summary] => BACOLOD CITY — President Arroyo will be the guest of honor when the Palarong Pambansa of the Commission on Higher Education at the Panaad Park on Friday at 4 p.m.

Almost 3,000 athletes and coaches from 17 regions will see action in the games which will end on April 28, said Peter Mendoza, secretary-general of the 2004 games.

The games, which focuses on the theme, "Unity through Sports for a Strong Republic, are hosted by the University of St. La Salle.

Seventeen team titles are at stake in the competition which includes 10 sports disciplines.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 236734 [Title] => GMA launches Study Now, Pay Later program [Summary] => President Arroyo launched yesterday a P500-million student assistance program to help financially strapped students graduate from college.

Under the program, students in 3rd and 4th year college can each borrow up to P8,000 every semester, which is payable two years after graduation.

Loans less than P4,000 can be paid within five years, while those beyond P4,000 is payable within 10 years.
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No one expects her to produce the miracles she promised to do last year. There just isn’t enough money, for instance, to build all those schoolhouses and low cost homes. But then again, I am not sure we expected all the man-made catastrophes in the past year either.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214878 [Title] => Former student gives Arroyo passing grade [Summary] => On a scale of one to ten, President Arroyo scored a passing grade of 7.8 on fulfilling the commitments she made in last year’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), Rep. Joey Salceda (Lakas, 3rd district of Albay) said yesterday.

Salceda, chairman of the House oversight committee on the commitments made by the President in her address in 2002, gave his former economics mentor a passing grade in a briefing he conducted yesterday at Malacañang, where he gave out copies of his committee’s preliminary findings on the SONA 2002 accomplishments.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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