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Countryside poverty alleviation and private sector support
In response to the government’s poverty alleviation thrust, big business organizations have come together in a group called the Countryside Enterprise Development Foundation (CEDF) to facilitate greater and faster inflow of private capital into the countryside.
Super Tuesday had no big wins
Beth Day Romulo
The only surprise about the 24-state super Tuesday US primaries was that Republican Mike Huckabee proved he belongs in the race after all.
Telling right from wrong
Romeo V. Pefianco
Telling what is right from wrong is second nature to most of us.
Performance tracking
Cerge M. Remonde
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, through EO 564, restructured the Regional Project Monitoring and Evaluation System (RPMES) established in 1989 by former Pres. Corazon C. Aquino and expanded by Pres. Fidel V. Ramos under EO 93, into the Infrastructure Monitoring Task Force Projects Performance Tracking System or the Pro-Performance System.
In detention, Suu Kyi still junta’s sharp thorn
Agence France-Presse
YANGON – Aung San Suu Kyi’s soft voice and demeanour belie a steely resolve in the long and painful struggle to bring democracy to Myanmar after decades of military dictatorship.
The perils of childbirth
Edgardo J. Angara
The country’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has not declined since the 1990s, with 172 women out of 100,000 live births dying during child birth, or approximately 4,100 women each year.
The Lord’s Prayer
Matthew 6:7-15
Genius has no country
Gemma Cruz Araneta
In that electrifying space between Juan Luna’s "Spoliarium" and Resurreccion Hidalgo’s "Assassination of Bustamante," the most eloquent and heart-rending masterpieces of Philippine art history, a concert was held by three young and incredibly prodigious Filipino musicians — Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz, pianist, Alfonso Bolipata, violinist and Renato Lucas, cellist.
The Senate probe of the NBN project
Hern P. Zenarosa
Unless changes are made in the manner the Senate, through its various committees, is conducting the seemingly endless investigation of the failed national broadband network project, it could go on indefinitely without getting into the root cause of the problem.
Vagaries of politics
Hector R.R. Villanueva
In the United States, in preparation for the Presidential elections later this year, great and far-reaching issues are being debated which will have a fundamental and profound impact on American society for generations to come.
‘Incredible soul’ (2)
Jullie Yap Daza
I have something in common with Jaime Zobel de Ayala, Mr. Makati himself.
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