Great Hotel Restaurants.(awards for chefs)
The News Review:
- Great Hotel Restaurants.(awards for chefs)
- The Philippine Star
- Grow Your Own Pharmacy
- South Africa: A Great Hole in Political Discourse
- Tatas lead pack on India Inc’s $11.3 bn global hunt
- Nigeria: Amaechi – The Need for Certainty of Law (2)
Great Hotel Restaurants.(awards for chefs)
Free with registration – Hotels – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 1, 2007
| Hotels (August, 2007). This year’s awards honor the home-grown chefs, brigades, sommeliers and waitstaff who create culinary stars.
The Philippine Star
ABS CBN News – Aug 1, 2007
There were non-stop airplays of top hits from the
American Top 40 Hits in leading radio stations, while airplays for local songs
were few and far between. There was also a dearth of indigenous songs by
homegrown artists and talents in radio programs. This musical
void was quickly filled by the spectacular rise of a stream of home-grown
artists and musicians, such as the Hot Dog, Hagibis, The Boy Friends, VST &
Company, The Circus Band, The New Minstrels, and many others. Easily among
the most exciting groups then was the APO Hiking Society, a bunch of young,
talented, fresh-from-college singers attracting a lot of fans from Ateneo de
Manila and nearby schools because of the refreshingly new, unique and engaging
style of their songs and humor. Three
decades since the advent of OPM, the APO has
remained one of the country’s most enduring and most popular groups. The APO
will share with its legions of fans its 38 glorious years in the entertainment
industry via a major concert on Aug… , at the Plenary Hall of the
Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City. Billed as
Mga Kwento Ng APO: 38 Years of Music & Friendship, the musical event will
pay tribute to the achievements of three talented and versatile artists and
performers whose bond of friendship and love for music made it one of the most
acclaimed groups during a phenomenal career that spans almost 40 years. The APO’s musical career started in the early ‘70s when four
young, fresh-from-college amateur musicians formed a singing group dubbed as
Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society and began attracting fans. The APO first gained recognition in 1973 when it performed at
a “farewell” concert at the Meralco Theater following the planned retirement of
some of its members from the field of amateur music to either study abroad or
join the corporate world. The show became a huge success when it drew an SRO
crowd in spite of the stormy weather (the first time the group had a citywide
audience), and the APO, now reduced to a trio,
pushed on steadily towards its date with fame and fortune. More than
three decades since that “farewell” concert, the trio of Jim Paredes, Danny
Javier and Buboy Garrovillo has emerged as among the country’s finest crops of
entertainers acclaimed for its brilliant achievements as composers, singers,
performers and recording artists.
Grow Your Own Pharmacy
Free with registration – Internet Bookwatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 1, 2007
Grow Your Own Pharmacy. | Internet Bookwatch (August, 2007).
South Africa: A Great Hole in Political Discourse
AllAfrica.com – Aug 1, 2007
No doubt many sincere Americans believed they were bringing freedom to the peoples of Saddam's Iraq and Taliban Afghanistan. What they have done is to make the word "democracy" detested among them. Despite accepting that democracy can be home grown only in its own time, doubts gnaw away. What kind of democracy is it that offers people no choice of government? How long can one party go on representing people whose hopes and needs must differ once the struggle that united them was won? What penalties are risked by ignoring these questions? Democratic gains are not irreversible. True, commentary and analysis occasionally circumnavigate — if they do not actually land on and explore — the non-subject: opposition is from time to time said to be "important" to democracy, or a reference to the ANC's "likely victory" at the next election comes with the daring hint of a sigh. But such caution hardly broadens or deepens understanding. Who chooses to argue that the problem in Zimbabwe has never been President Robert Mugabe alone, but rather a lone Zanu (PF)? Who has maintained that the years of Mbeki's denialism on AIDS, and the ANC's dutiful silence, could not have drawn out as they did, had there been an opposition party that people felt they could turn to for a different policy? By all means, dismiss the idea as academic, even silly, at this juncture.
Tatas lead pack on India Inc’s $11.3 bn global hunt
Economic Times – Aug 1, 2007
37 billion in the
first quarter of 2007-08, an Assocham Eco Pulse Study (AEP) said. The foreign
firms invested much less USD 2. 06 billion in buying out Indian firms during the
period. The Indian firms also
stayed ahead of foreign companies in acquiring entities based and operating in
the country.
Nigeria: Amaechi – The Need for Certainty of Law (2)
AllAfrica.com – Aug 1, 2007
Senate Congress Committee on Democratic Advancement in Africa, succumb to the dark impulses of individuals who are not ready to go by due process of law?Clearly the Amaechi and Omehia case represents a scar and a serious dent on our democracy beyond the two gentlemen involved. What is at play here is the soul and future of party primary elections in our so-called home-grown democracy, whatever that means. If this dangerous and unjust development is allowed to stand as a precedent, then a floodgate of similar undemocratic tendencies would have been opened for the 2011 elections as party primary would no longer matter as a determinant of who gets the ticket of a party to contest an election. The purpose of the new provision of the Electoral Act that the power of a party to substitute its nominated candidate should be based on "cogent and verifiable" reason aimed at curing the bleak episode of 2003 when candidates were substituted at will in notorious states like Anambra a few hours to election without valid reasons, would have been defeated. Whatever allegations of corruption against Amaechi and, however, true they may be, the courts are there for him to be tried but until that is done, the Supreme Court in plethora decisions had ruled that all indicted persons by panels of enquiry cannot and should not be disallowed from contesting elective office. We should appreciate that the values of justice, equity and fair play are universal values that are good for all mankind, unchanging for all people and for all nations.