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M I S C E L L A N E O U S (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... (Update) Cop, grandchild killed in Bulacan shooting incident (Updated 10:51 a.m.) MANILA , Philippines - A Caloocan City policeman and his two-year-old grandchild were killed while his wife was hurt in a shooting incident in Bulacan province on Friday morning. Full Story: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/95605/(Update)-Cop-grandchild-killed-in-Bulacan-shooting-incident Japanese economic growth...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... One employee was critically wounded in the robbery, Padilla added. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo expressed shock at the killings, which drew national outrage, deputy presidential spokeswoman Lorelie Fajardo said. "The president would like to extend her deepest sympathies for the families of all the fatalities in the gruesome and senseless killing," she said, adding that Arroyo...
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
MANILA, May 17 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo thanked Friday the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact Team for validating the Philippine government's efforts to invest in people, fight corruption and encourage economic freedom.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Manila - Nine Philippine military officers convicted in a failed July 2003 mutiny and pardoned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo were freed Friday after almost five years in detention. The nine officers were in high spirits as they walked out of...
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RG CRUZ (Free subscription) | yesterday
... good news—-first the wage hike, next the giving out of scholarships. PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO ’S SPEECH DURING THE 29TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EMPLOYERS BY THE EMPLOYERS CONFEDERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (ECOP) Centennial Hall, Manila Hotel, City of Manila May 15, 2008 05152008A Thank you very much, Mike for your very kind and generous introduction. Secretary Favila and the...
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Sunstar (Free subscription) | yesterday
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the full sentence of six to 40 years imprisonment would be imposed and served by the nine Magdalo officers if they violate any of the two conditions cited in the grant of their conditional pardon. Arroyo, in issuing General Order (GO) 10 on Monday, said the two conditions are: “that each shall [...]
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Sunstar (Free subscription) | yesterday
MANILA –- Malacañang said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo met with ZTE officials in Shenzen, China on November 2, 2006 but said the activity was not a secret. “I don't know who the ZTE officials are but the President indeed was there on that date. It was a private activity in the sense that it was a golf [...]
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
MANILA, Philippines -- Roman Catholic churches in the Philippine capital will hold special masses on Sunday to collect donations for survivors of Myanmar's deadly cyclone, the Manila archdiocese said ...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Most labor organizations opposed the P20 wage hike announced by President Arroyo Thursday, calling it's an "insult" in light of increases in prices of rice, other food items, and transport. Labor leaders interviewed by abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak deplored the low wage increase that is expected to be formally granted by the National Capital Region Wage Board on Friday.
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Reuters MANILA, May 15 (Reuters) - Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed the leader of a left-wing farmers' group in the southern Philippines on Thursday, his colleagues said, blaming the military for ...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... political activists, were killed last year. In 2006, 210 political killings were recorded in the Philippines. Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, conducted a fact-finding mission early last year on the political executions in the Philippines and criticized some state policies that tend to abet the attacks. Alston noted that the military's counterinsurgency...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
It was a promise not meant to be broken. A balanced budget this year could have been the President Gloria Arroyo and her economic team's seal of good housekeeping and an indication of her administration's strong resolve to put its fiscal house in order. But since the start of 2008, one global situation beyond the administration's control after another has since crumbled the cabinet's...
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
DUMAGUETE CITY, May 16 (PNA) -- The League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Negros Oriental chapter would like to be a part in preserving the heritage of the province by participating in activities that mark the culmination of the Heritage Month celebration this May.
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Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... to help the poor sector in particular. The use of alternative medicine is part of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's agenda to help the poor by providing basic health services especially in the far-flung areas where barrio folks could hardly be reached by doctors. “Medicines are now available at PITAHC office including the latest anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and beauty soaps which...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... 4,000kg) in the first crop season. In a move to stave off a potential political crisis, President Gloria Arroyo last month ordered an increase in palay farm-gate prices by the National Food Authority (NFA) from 12 to 15 pesos/kg (US$0.35). The increase was meant to enable farmers to compete with commercial traders and keep them from cornering most of this year's first crop. It will...
