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APO milked by officials?

‘Too small to be seen,
too juicy to be let go’

by Justine Espina-Letargo and Tita C. Valderama

IT IS now so obscure that many government officials don’t even know what it is, but there was once a time when the APO Production Unit, Inc. seemed destined for great things.

‘APO’ actually stands for ‘Asian Productivity Organization,’ which was the name of the Japan-based group that had helped start it more than three decades ago as an outfit that would serve the information and training needs of Asian countries.

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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Inside APO Production Unit, Inc.

by Tita C. Valderama

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Read more… | Posted Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

APO, gov’t press, printing
campaign materials of bets

by Tita C. Valderama

THE ELECTION Code is clear: Any printing press owned or controlled by the government is prohibited from being used in any election campaign or partisan political activity.

But some officials of the APO Production Unit, Inc., which is under the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), say the company is “private” and is therefore free to print campaign materials for one of its board members who is among the candidates for local office on May 10, as well as for the son and a brother of two other company officers.

Read more… | Posted Tuesday, May 4th, 2010