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Manila is a dying city, with rotting old buildings and dilapidated houses, clogged esteros and rivers, noisy, smoke-filled garbage-littered streets, leaking water pipes, big potholes on roads, mendicants, peddlers, street urchins, snatchers and pickpockets.
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[Title] => Citizens beg Mayor to spare the forest park
[Summary] => The STAR issue of April 27 carried the following report headlined "Pollution affects 98 percent of Metro folk": "Up to 98 percent of residents in Manila are affected by air pollution and 50 percent want to move to a less polluted place, according to the latest survey by a global market research company.
"Carole Solidum Sarthou, managing director of Synovate Philippines, said the survey demonstrated that residents believe air pollution has a significant impact on their lives and that the problem was far from improving.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274716 [Title] => Arroceros forest park should be preserved [Summary] => The most popular tribute ever paid to trees is Joyce Kilmer’s poem. It is not unusual to see excerpts of his poem in placards exhibited where there are trees. Trees are natural objects that touch many people, but it is also true to many, they are just nuisances that stand on their way.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203797 [Title] => Arroceros Forest Park celebrates Earth Day [Summary] => In many cities all over the world, many commercial centers have been destroyed to make room for parks. In Manila, the Winner Foundation converted a 21,428 square-meter wasteland into a forest park. This took ten years and started with an agreement with the City of Manila. Mayor Lito Atienza’s motto for Manila is "Buhayin and Maynila."
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200009 [Title] => Arroceros Park as tourists’ haven [Summary] => In the month of November in 1993 with the approval and support of President and Mrs. Fidel V. Ramos, Winner Foundation signed a memorandum of agreement with the City of Manila to create and develop a forest park in the DECS property owned by the City of Manila.
The master plan of the mini forest was drawn up by a landscape architect Wilfredo "Doy" Dizon who offered his services "pro bono". He was then the president of the Philippine Association of Landscape Architects (PALA).
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136207 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1529529 [AuthorName] => Mons Romulo [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 278555 [Title] => Arroceros Forest Park: Going, going... gone? [Summary] =>
Manila is a dying city, with rotting old buildings and dilapidated houses, clogged esteros and rivers, noisy, smoke-filled garbage-littered streets, leaking water pipes, big potholes on roads, mendicants, peddlers, street urchins, snatchers and pickpockets.
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[Title] => Citizens beg Mayor to spare the forest park
[Summary] => The STAR issue of April 27 carried the following report headlined "Pollution affects 98 percent of Metro folk": "Up to 98 percent of residents in Manila are affected by air pollution and 50 percent want to move to a less polluted place, according to the latest survey by a global market research company.
"Carole Solidum Sarthou, managing director of Synovate Philippines, said the survey demonstrated that residents believe air pollution has a significant impact on their lives and that the problem was far from improving.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274716 [Title] => Arroceros forest park should be preserved [Summary] => The most popular tribute ever paid to trees is Joyce Kilmer’s poem. It is not unusual to see excerpts of his poem in placards exhibited where there are trees. Trees are natural objects that touch many people, but it is also true to many, they are just nuisances that stand on their way.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203797 [Title] => Arroceros Forest Park celebrates Earth Day [Summary] => In many cities all over the world, many commercial centers have been destroyed to make room for parks. In Manila, the Winner Foundation converted a 21,428 square-meter wasteland into a forest park. This took ten years and started with an agreement with the City of Manila. Mayor Lito Atienza’s motto for Manila is "Buhayin and Maynila."
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200009 [Title] => Arroceros Park as tourists’ haven [Summary] => In the month of November in 1993 with the approval and support of President and Mrs. Fidel V. Ramos, Winner Foundation signed a memorandum of agreement with the City of Manila to create and develop a forest park in the DECS property owned by the City of Manila.
The master plan of the mini forest was drawn up by a landscape architect Wilfredo "Doy" Dizon who offered his services "pro bono". He was then the president of the Philippine Association of Landscape Architects (PALA).
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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