THE Philippine Trade Training Center on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, is the venue of the 2005 National Inventors’ Week which will be held up to November 21, 2005. This yearly expo-fair showcases Filipino-made products, processes, and technologies. This year’s theme is "Inventors (Technopreneurs): Source of Export Competitive Production." It emphasizes energy-related inventions and innovations made by Filipinos and highlights their creative capacities.

A CENTRAL pillar of the Arroyo presidency is a strong and aggressive role for the Philippines in foreign policy. That’s the reason President Gloria considers attendance in international meetings of leaders like the recent APEC summit in Busan, South Korea, very important.

SOMEONE in the mayor’s office in Manila called the recent visit of Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan, which was preceded by a 500-man business delegation from Guangdon, a Chinese "invasion." The choice of the word "invasion" in a friendly context is probably characteristic of our brand of press agentry — but it can’t be helped.

LIFE is already dreary and full of trials as it is. We need not look far. The immediate situation that surrounds us in our country has become very problematic; moreover, the prospects, objectively speaking, are far from bright.

TO back up President Arroyo’s attack on the media for concentrating on bad stories while ignoring the good ones, such as her achievements, Malacañang released a survey showing 41 percent of respondents complaining about media’s emphasis on negative reports.

FOREIGN and domestic debt has reached P4 trillion. With EVAT now in place let’s borrow some more.

NOT too many are aware of the enormity of the financial damage they leave on their tracks – those spurious goods and products. From January to September alone this year, an aggregate of P1.05 billion worth of those were confiscated by authorities.

AS Hippocrates said, "Experience is fallacious and judgment difficult." This statement led author Arnold A. Hutschneck,M.D. to write the book "THE DRIVE FOR POWER," to demonstrate in his book the competitive drive for immediate or distant goals by a new field that offers new ways of thinking, called "psychopolitics," which is an application of psychodynamic principles to political life, with the emphasis on political leaders. In that book he attempts to show how the people can learn to elect healthier political leaders, mature men and women who will live up to their commitment rather than use power as a vehicle for their own ambitions. It’s nothing new among our politicians. He wrote an analysis in one part of the book of a "A Politician’s Unforgivable sin."

NUREMBERG, Germany — Reporter Ernest Michel recalls watching intently as top Nazis walked to the microphone and uttered their "not guilty" pleas - Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 more.

BRIMMING with joy and hope, President GMA says that the peso is surging and the stock market is robust.

WHEN Jesus looked up, He saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and He noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, "I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has offered her whole livelihood."