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Editorial – Doing us proud

The less appreciated and sometimes misunderstood  Monfort Bat Cave in the Island Garden City of Samal has been certified as the largest colony of...

Thingking Allowed – Weathering the “El Nino”

by Nicasio Angelo AgustinTwo weeks ago, farmers from Cagayan Valley started to notice their drying up farms and their dying corn and palay.  The...

Current – Our energy policy should be drastically modified

by Alex RoldanThe most troublesome crisis faced by the Philippine nation these days is the shortage in supply of electricity. The country has been...

Sense or Sans – Erap will make history in 2010

by Edcer EscuderoProbably drawing irresistible motivation from his adoring loyalists (Jejomar, Binay, Rufus Rodriguez, Miriam Santiago, Estelito Mendoza, Kit Tatad, et al), and defying...

Trading Post – How to solve the Mindanao power crisis

by Aurelio PeñaTHERE OUGHT to be a law in Mindanao that will make it mandatory for every factory, manufacturing plant, processing plant, packing plant,...

Editorial – Benchmarking missions

Leaders of the booming local information communications technology industry are going to India next month on a benchmarking mission that would benefit the ICT...

Thingking Allowed – Brownouts: short-term remedies and long-term solutions

by Nicasio Angelo AgustinIt is not as if we only came to know about it today.  The looming power shortage had been made known...

Current – Expanding our sphere to elect the right president

by Alex RoldanPresidential elections are normally the most talked about subject matter in the life of any country which practices the presidential system of...

Trading Post – A ’double top’ in the RP stock market

by Aurelio PeñaGLOBAL recovery is seeping in drip by drip, not in torrents as we all hoped for -- if we go by the...