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Our friend and colleague, Manila Overseas Press Club (MOPC) chairman and The New Standard columnist Tony Lopez, was all smiles as the “who’s who” in business, society and government trooped to the Grand Ballroom of Hotel InterCon for his 66th birthday, which coincided with the 13th anniversary of BizNews Asia magazine with Tony as publisher and editor.

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I’m glad that officials of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (CCCI) has taken a keen interest in the Road Revolution that created a huge controversy last week and the previous month because of the traffic jam it created.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 377873 [Title] => Prospects bright for Davao City in 2007 [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Prospects have remained bright for Davao City as things continue to look up for this southern metropolis, considered to be the leading growth center in this part of the country.

This year, would be a brighter year for Davao City. It would spur further growth here with the developments we are seeing now, both in the private sector and even with the projects the local government is implementing for the city, City Administrator Wendel Avisado said.
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Roberto Teo, chief of the Davao City Investment Promotion Center, said the city registered a 16 percent increase in investments in the third quarter amounting to P1.747 billion compared to P1.506 billion during the same period last year.
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According to him, he has assembled for BizNewsAsia a team of editors and writers with combined business journalism experience of more than 100 years. His marketing group includes professionals who helped make Asiaweek the fastest-growing and largest international newsmagazine in the Philippines with 30,000 subscribers.
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Here are 10 nuggets of business and personal wisdom taken, unadulterated, from those profiles.
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[DatePublished] => 2001-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 84967 [Title] => Filipinos among Asia’s new Power 50 Elite [Summary] => And you thought you’ve heard the last of Onel de Guzman of Love Bug notoriety.

Believe it or not, De Guzman now shares with Sheila Coronel, feisty founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), the millions of Filipino texters, and ousted Philippine leader Joseph Estrada the honor of having been named among the top 50 Asian communicators by Asiaweek for the year 2001.

"Fame," wrote the American novelist Don Delillo, "requires every kind of excess."

Editors of the regional magazine evidently don’t agree.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708612 [AuthorName] => Romel Bagares [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => ) ) )
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Our friend and colleague, Manila Overseas Press Club (MOPC) chairman and The New Standard columnist Tony Lopez, was all smiles as the “who’s who” in business, society and government trooped to the Grand Ballroom of Hotel InterCon for his 66th birthday, which coincided with the 13th anniversary of BizNews Asia magazine with Tony as publisher and editor.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136027 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/allure/20141130/lifetime-of-journalism-3.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 733438 [Title] => The Cebu Chamber wakes up from its slumber [Summary] =>

I’m glad that officials of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (CCCI) has taken a keen interest in the Road Revolution that created a huge controversy last week and the previous month because of the traffic jam it created.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 377873 [Title] => Prospects bright for Davao City in 2007 [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Prospects have remained bright for Davao City as things continue to look up for this southern metropolis, considered to be the leading growth center in this part of the country.

This year, would be a brighter year for Davao City. It would spur further growth here with the developments we are seeing now, both in the private sector and even with the projects the local government is implementing for the city, City Administrator Wendel Avisado said.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369224 [Title] => Davao City investments up 16% in Q3 [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Things are looking up anew for Davao City as investments continue to pour into this southern metropolis, considered the leading growth center in this part of the country.

Roberto Teo, chief of the Davao City Investment Promotion Center, said the city registered a 16 percent increase in investments in the third quarter amounting to P1.747 billion compared to P1.506 billion during the same period last year.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 366425 [Title] => Waterless in Parañaque [Summary] => Parañaque sits between Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay, and more than a dozen rivers and creeks run through it. Yet for as long as residents can remember, the city has always been waterless. Only in recent years was Maynilad Water Services Inc., the private waterworks concessionaire, able to revive the pipelines into half the population. [DatePublished] => 2006-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 353528 [Title] => Hassle-free living [Summary] => Imagine moving into your new condominium just to realize that you’ll need an additional P500,000 and six more months to design and furnish your new home. You convince yourself that you’ll be happy if you could make your unit look half as good as the model unit you fell in love with when you decided to buy your condo. Hiring an interior decorator and contractor, buying new furniture and appliances — that’s only the beginning of all the hassles of moving into a newly purchased unit.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Real Estate [SectionUrl] => real-estate [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 172908 [Title] => Lopez launches BizNewsAsia [Summary] => Veteran journalist Tony Lopez and a group of powerful investors here and abroad have put up BizNewsAsia weekly business and political newsmagazine. Lopez said the newsmagazine is pro-business, pro-economy, and pro-Philippines.

According to him, he has assembled for BizNewsAsia a team of editors and writers with combined business journalism experience of more than 100 years. His marketing group includes professionals who helped make Asiaweek the fastest-growing and largest international newsmagazine in the Philippines with 30,000 subscribers.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 130021 [Title] => John Gokongwei Jr.'s 10 nuggets of wisdom [Summary] => Though often described as media-shy, John has been in the media spotlight since his assault on San Miguel Corporation in 1976. He has been the subject of many profiles, including three Asiaweek cover stories which straddled three decades of his business life.

Here are 10 nuggets of business and personal wisdom taken, unadulterated, from those profiles.
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[DatePublished] => 2001-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 84967 [Title] => Filipinos among Asia’s new Power 50 Elite [Summary] => And you thought you’ve heard the last of Onel de Guzman of Love Bug notoriety.

Believe it or not, De Guzman now shares with Sheila Coronel, feisty founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), the millions of Filipino texters, and ousted Philippine leader Joseph Estrada the honor of having been named among the top 50 Asian communicators by Asiaweek for the year 2001.

"Fame," wrote the American novelist Don Delillo, "requires every kind of excess."

Editors of the regional magazine evidently don’t agree.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708612 [AuthorName] => Romel Bagares [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => ) ) )
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