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                    [Title] => Bobit Avila, STAR columnist, writes 30
                    [Summary] => Valeriano “Bobit” Avila, whose opinion columns graced the pages of The Philippine STAR and The Feeman for decades, died yesterday. He was 70.
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                    [Title] => Veteran columnist Bobit Avila writes 30
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                    [Title] => Comment on the article of Mr. Bobit S. Avila
                    [Summary] => That is why I am very curious what book it is you are referring to when you say “in my book” because the real legislative joke would not be the distance between component towns of a district but the deprivation of the people of real and effective representation. 
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                    [Title] => Political expediency
                    [Summary] => If Cebu City resident Bobit Avila, a fellow columnist in this paper, is getting discombobulated by the manner in which congressional districts are being made elsewhere in this country, you can bet your last insignificant centavo the residents of haphazardly configured districts are even more addled by the lack of reason and logic in the process.
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                    [Summary] => Re: Your Opinion entitled “A serious redistricting flaw done in Cebu” in your column Shooting Straight dated February 7, 2019. THE PHILIPPINE STAR, THE FREEMAN
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                    [Title] => Cebu toasts South Africa
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South Africa is a multi-ethnic society with a wide variety of cultures, religions and languages.

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Bobit Avila is right that no one warned Cebuanos about Seniang.

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In an assembly in Cebu yesterday, the multi-sectoral group National Transformation Council urged President Benigno Aquino III to immediately step down from his post.

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For the past four years of this administration, a great majority of Filipinos expected some honest to goodness improvements in public service especially in reducing, if not totally eliminating graft and corruption and solving our problem of poverty.

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The other week we stopped over in Dubai on our way back from a business meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. We bumped into some of our old friends from Qatar Airways who informed us about their request for additional flight frequencies.

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                    [Summary] => That is why I am very curious what book it is you are referring to when you say “in my book” because the real legislative joke would not be the distance between component towns of a district but the deprivation of the people of real and effective representation. 
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Bobit Avila is right that no one warned Cebuanos about Seniang.

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In an assembly in Cebu yesterday, the multi-sectoral group National Transformation Council urged President Benigno Aquino III to immediately step down from his post.

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For the past four years of this administration, a great majority of Filipinos expected some honest to goodness improvements in public service especially in reducing, if not totally eliminating graft and corruption and solving our problem of poverty.

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The other week we stopped over in Dubai on our way back from a business meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. We bumped into some of our old friends from Qatar Airways who informed us about their request for additional flight frequencies.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135726 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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