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Questions of Policies
SSS: What to do
by Honesto General
MANILA, Philippines--In 1997, the SSS [Social Security System] law was extensively rewritten. After 10 years, it is time to take stock.
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SSS: Still deep in the woods
by Honesto General
MANILA, Philippines--The Social Security System (SSS) is awash with P17.3 billion in cash. Banco de Oro Universal Bank paid this whopping sum for the SSS shareholdings at the Equitable PCI Bank. My column of Sept. 19 drew the background behind the sale.
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Buying your first life insurance policy
by Honesto General
MANILA, Philippines -- Lynn has been a close friend of my eldest daughter Clarissa since their high school days. They went their separate ways in college, but they have kept in touch all these years.
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SSS: All’s well that ends well
by Honesto General
It all started when the Gokongwei and Lopez groups wanted to sell their holdings totaling 72 percent of Philippine Commercial International Bank. PCIB was saddled with huge dollar borrowings that were being lent out in pesos. It was getting clobbered as the peso weakened in relation to the dollar.
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Joma Sison unmasked
by Honesto General
JOSE MARIA SISON ORGAnized the Communist Party of the Philippines along Maoist lines. Sison believed that, if he controlled the countryside, the cities would fall like overripe fruit, as what happened in China.
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A mini-Marshall plan
by Honesto General
House Speaker Jose de Venecia is running out of original ideas. On the heels of the ongoing military offensive in the provinces of Basilan and Sulu against the Abu Sayyaf, he proposes a mini-Marshall plan for the Muslim areas in Mindanao.
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To our brave troops: Godspeed!
by Honesto General
Every time the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) mounts offensive operations against terrorist organizations like the Abu Sayyaf, all sorts of characters crawl out of the woodwork, here and abroad, to call for a halt to the fighting.
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