REPUBLIC Act (RA) No. 9211, the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 was signed in June, 2003. Three months ago, the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) were signed by the inter-agency committee on tobacco led by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department of Health (DoH) to govern
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I HAVE this uncertified report about the erstwhile USSR: Throughout the long rule of the Communist Party, the price of vodka never went up. In this way, the governed drowned their sorrows and frustrations in that potent drink. Not even the heartless commissars would deprive Russians of their cheap t
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AS the June 30 deadline looms and the controversy over the canvass of votes for president and vice president gets increasingly heated up, I am just thinking whether all this could have been avoided had the computerization of the voting process been pushed through as previously planned.
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BY now, those school children who contributed their allowance to the reconstruction of Jose Rizal’s house must be senior citizens and quite horrified at what has happened to their patriotic project. Built in the 19th century by Francisco Mercado, the national hero’s father, the house was the first s
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AFTER four revisions and a special all-day meeting on Sunday, the United Nations Security Council, under the leadership of Philippine Permanent Representative to the UN, Lauro Baja, who is serving as president, unanimously passed the US-British - sponsored resolution endorsing the new Interim Govern
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THE southwest monsoon (habagat) rains may fall in trickles at first, becoming torrential in mid-June. Heavy rain marks the end of the hot summer months of March, April, and May.
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OPPOSITION Koalisyong Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) lawyers went to Cebu City last week, with representatives of the national media in tow, to expose alleged massive cheating in the May 10 elections.
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TIME Magazine may have featured the whole political career of the late US president Ronald Reagan by now. Still our people might be interested to know more about him as US president compared to his predecessors in the past. Nathan Miller, former US Senate staffer, and an awardwinning reporter for Ba
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AS the canvassing of ballots should be winding down, our attention should now begin to shift to our nation’s agenda that we must be pursuing in the next six years.
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SADDAM Hussein must either be released from custody by June 30 or charged if the US and the new Iraqi government are to conform to international law, the International Committee of the Red Cross said last night.
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Matthew 5:43-48
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