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Anti-Smoking Campaign Is Useless
Smokers and cigarette companies are considered to be best buds when it comes to cigarette consumption. Smoking is a vice that is so hard to stop when the addiction has started to get into a person’s nerve. No matter how strong are the campaigns against it, there would always be this group of smokers that would continue to patronize the product. Moreover, discount acid cigars will always be part of the online promos of different cigarette companies and will continue to lure smokers to avail such great deals. Health departments in most countries are campaigning against smoking by presenting all the health risks it would caused to humans. Second-hand smoking is…
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Participate In A Survey and Win
For many years now, Filipinos are using the same old features of driver’s license. If it is not lost, it easily faded so you have to acquire a license card even before the renewal date. The current driver’s license has only one purpose – to be use as identification card in government or any transactions. And unfortunately, the license card is so easy to fake. The syndicate, with several cohorts from the Land Transportation Office, has been raking millions of money in selling fake licenses. But why not enhanced it just like how other nations did? How about a driver’s license with many uses or as a national ID? How…
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Is There A Need To Enhance The Features of Philippine Driver’s License?
Other countries did it good and their people had realized its convenience. I am referring to the enhanced driver’s licenses (EDL) to the motoring public that was developed by the Ontario government, in consultation with the Government of Canada and United States Government, as a passport alternative for Ontarians who are Canadian citizens to use when entering the U.S. by land or water. These cards are imbedded with radio frequency ID microchips that promote a more expeditious cross-border travel. In the Philippines, many would believe that it is already time to enhance our driver’s license in a way that it can also function as a smart card. If other government…
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President Aquino Confirms FPJ’s National Artist Award
It was declared six years ago. But the family of late movie actor Fernando Poe Jr., refused to accept the national artist award proclaimed by the Arroyo administration. But today, President Noynoy Aquino confirmed the earlier proclamation of former President Gloria Arroyo. “Pursuant to the authority vested in me by law, I Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines, do hereby confirm the declaration of Ronald Allan K. Poe, a.k.a. Fernando Poe Jr. (posthumous) as National Artist as conferred in Proclamation No. 1069, dated May 23, 2006,” Mr. Aquino said in Proclamation No. 435 dated July 20. Poe ran but was lost to Arroyo by a million votes in…
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National Penitentiary: When The Public Impression Is Wrong
Prisoners behind the high wall and sturdy bars of the National Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa are dangerous, right? So they must stay in prison, forever? They don’t deserve humane treatment after what they did to their victims? Worst, they must die to pay for the lives they have destroyed? Adding insult to an injury, the correctional system is incompetent and corrupt. These are the common public perception about prisoners and the corrections service in the country based on what they see on media interviews. That’s because many are not able to witness what happens behind the wall of prisons. So, if the public impression about the prison system in the…
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An Effective Approach To Debt Recovery
Debts are inevitable. Even large companies and corporations experience abridged funds due to various reasons. Also, there are several governments which cannot help but acquire debts from stable financial institutions like the International Monetary (Fund). No matter how rich a nation is but if there’s a budget deficit and needs immediate funds – debt is a definite solution. Some of its unfortunate results could be a large debt service thus cutting allocations for basic social services that are supposed to be the priority. And of course, ordinary people have debts. Many are actually have overflowing loans that could almost make them crazy, others have manageable and lucky for few with…