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		<title>An ICT Visionary for U.P. President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted Harresco takes over University of the Philippines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The leadership of the University of the Philippines will be decided soon and one of the contenders is Dr. Patrick Azanza, an ICT luminary. Dr. Patrick Azanza Since 2008, the University of the Philippines (UP), the country’s one and only national university,  has been overtaken by the Ateneo de Manila University in the Times Higher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1200&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic bag tax bill refiled in Philippine Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lower House]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bill authored by Albay Second District Representative Al Francis Bichara filed as HB 127 seeks to levy a tax in the amount of Two Pesos and Fifty Centavos (Php 2.50 or US Dollar .06) for every plastic bag used at the point of sale of goods or products.  The levy will be collected by stores and sales outlets with annual incomes of P100,000 and /or a minimum capitalization of P100,000.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1195&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does &#8220;tingi&#8221; or plastic sachet packaging really benefit the Filipino masses?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizations, Movements, Causes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unilever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ondoy floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pasig river]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you picture how many sachets 21 billion pesos’ worth of Unilever products are? Well, let’s see. Which brands of theirs have sachet variants? Sunsilk, Creamsilk, Rexona, Clear, Knorr, Lady’s Choice, Close-Up, Best Foods, and Vaseline come to mind.

Moving on, 21 billion pesos in sachets, if say, the average price for any given sachet were 20 pesos conservatively (I say conservatively because first, most of those mentioned cost less than 20 pesos, and second, 21 billion pesos in Unilever’s sales is at supplier-to-distributor prices, which are lower than retail), would be equivalent to 1,050 million sachets. If a given sachet has 10mL of product inside, it’s like they’re producing- no, selling at least one Olympic size swimming pool’s worth of product every 3 months. That doesn’t sound like much, but you could shampoo all 90 million Filipinos 20 times over with that much shampoo, if it were all shampoo.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1189&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Philippine river pasig clogged by plastic sachets, plastic pouches, and plastic bags.</media:title>
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		<title>Lipton Tea exploits laborers in third world countries</title>
		<link>http://manilareview.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/lipton-tea-exploits-laborers-in-third-world-countrie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[unfair labor practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual slavery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tea plantation and factory workers who supply the demands of Lipton in Kenya, India, Pakistan and Indonesia, have, for years, been complaining of poor working conditions, low monthly wages, discrimination and harassment even as Unilever cultivates what others describe as a “growing regime of disposable jobs.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1185&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lemmings and the Filipino vote</title>
		<link>http://manilareview.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/laughing-at-you-as-you-dive-off-a-cliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino Blogosphere]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Filipinos are stupid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some part of the night engaging in a political discussion of  sorts and as most political discussions go, there was a bit of an argument over whether there was &#8216;wisdom&#8217; in the votes cast by over thirteen million Filipino voters. The common notion about democracy among Filipino masses is that whoever gets the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1182&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Noynoy Aquino be accountable?</title>
		<link>http://manilareview.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/will-noynoy-aquino-be-accountable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 08:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving along EDSA just a few minutes ago when this thought just popped inside my head.  How do we hold Noynoy Aquino accountable? What if he doesn&#8217;t end corruption and bring people out of poverty? Ending corruption in government is a very tall order.  It is what a former boss calls a &#8220;Biblical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1180&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Richard &#8220;Dick&#8221; Gordon on Automated Elections</title>
		<link>http://manilareview.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/sen-richard-dick-gordon-on-automated-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 22:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Farol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automated elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Gordon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Transcript of Sen. Richard J. Gordon&#8217;s extemporaneous address to FOCAP. March 18, 2009) I welcome the opportunity to address again the foreign correspondents community in our country. And I thank you for your abiding interest in Philippine affairs amidst the giant tsunami engulfing the world today. Gaby Tabañar told me that I should be prepared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manilareview.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12583919&amp;post=1177&amp;subd=manilareview&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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