Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
MANILA, Oct. 8 (PNA) -- Press Secretary Jesus Dureza today asked the migrant workers groups to join in the two-day 2nd meeting of Global Forum on Migration and Development instead of holding protests to ventilate their own advocacies.
Sunstar (Free subscription) | yesterday
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would raise the global financial crisis issue and how to possibly prevent its repeat in the future during the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing from October 24 to 25, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said. Dureza, in a radio interview, said Arroyo is expected to discuss in the forum “what actually happened in the [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... when Yap's replacement assumes office, said Harry Roque, an opposition lawyer and complainant.Jesus Dureza, a presidential spokesman, accused de Venecia of using the impeachment bid to bolster his plan to run for the Senate in 2010, and urged the public to ignore the new impeachment complaint.Arroyo has survived three opposition impeachment attempts, which were dismissed on technicalities...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
MANILA, Oct. 05 (PNA) -- Malacanang on Saturday welcomed the approval of the United States Congress of the US$ 700- billion financial bailout plan, that "signals a start of a long process of economic recovery, on which confidence has been badly shaken by the financial turmoil." This was stated by Press Secretary Jesus Dureza, adding that like all other countries, the Philippines will...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
MANILA, Oct. 5 (PNA) – Malacanang is confident that the trade relations between the Philippines and China would not be affected by the controversial melamine contamination issue. Press Secretary Jesus Dureza on Friday said the Philippines is only doing the necessary measures to give protection to the Filipino consumers, stressing that it is only appropriate for the government to over-react...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
... and kidney stones and other illnesses in 54,000 children in China.Philippine Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said the government's action was meant to protect the public and should not ruffle ties with China, one of the country's main trading partners."Conducting due diligence to protect the consumer is never an overreaction. We'd rather overreact than underreact because it's the health...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
... and kidney stones and other illnesses in 54,000 children in China.Philippine Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said the government's action was meant to protect the public and should not ruffle ties with China, one of the country's main trading partners."Conducting due diligence to protect the consumer is never an overreaction. We'd rather overreact than underreact because it's the health...
Sunstar (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
PRESS Secretary Jesus Dureza said the issue of child warriors should be addressed internally. His statement came a few days after Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita reported the general situation of the child warriors in the Philippines, including the country’s plans to raise before the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of Islamic Conference the issue of [...]
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
... to stem the tide (of the US financial problem) if it will reach the Philippines.” Press Secretary Jesus Dureza narrated what transpired during the 45-minute meeting between Rhodes and the President at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Rhodes “congratulated the President for putting in place reforms, even as he pointed out that these reforms will still be put to a test,” Dureza...
Sunstar (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is set to leave for New York next week to attend the United Nations General Assembly (Unga) on September 23, a Malacañang official said. During Wednesday’s press briefing at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati City, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said details about the trip is still being finalized. Dureza said aside from the Unga, [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
... by the kidnappers, suspected to be members of the Abu Sayyaf group. Presidential Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said Hupida and Mendoza "do not deserve this fate" and all efforts must be exerted to rescue them safely. "The communities whom they have served and who value their work and sacrifices must move as one with our authorities to help resolve this unfortunate incident," he said....
Sunstar (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains consistent in her advocacy for natural family planning methods, preferring to leave discussions and the decision on the proposed Reproductive Health (RH) Bill to Congress, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said. Dureza said it is also still too early to discuss and decide whether the President would veto the bill should it pass [...]
Sunstar (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
PRESS Secretary Jesus Dureza on Thursday assured members of a Mindanao-based non-governmental group that their sentiments have not fallen on deaf ears, stressing that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a listening president. Dureza confirmed that Arroyo was supposed to meet with the Mindanao People’s Caucus in Malacañang Thursday afternoon but details on what transpired was not...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... ZDS Medical Center. This will be followed by the unveiling of the hospital marker. Press Secretary Jesus Dureza, House Speaker Prospero Nograles, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Zamboanga del Sur Governor Aurora Cerilles, 2nd District Representative Antonio Cerilles, 1st District Representative Victor Yu, and Pagadian City Mayor Samuel Co will assist the President in the ribbon-cutting...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Manila - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will push ahead with a trip to the United States she cancelled earlier due to escalating violence in the country's troubled south, her press secretary said Wednesday. According to Press Secretary Jesus Dureza, Arroyo decided to proceed with the visit to New York to attend the 63rd United Nations General Assembly and other meetings...
