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World Bank Funds Project To Address Housing Crisis

MANILA -- Mrs. Marilou Japay or “Daday’ lives with her asthmatic husband and three children in a shanty in the South Pier area near Divisoria that has the shape and size of three toilet stalls placed horizontally. The walls are made of rusting roofing material, flattened muddied cardboard boxes and scratched wooden planks. The roof is also made of the same with the addition of torn pieces of old advertising tarpaulin banners and plastic packaging sheets. When it rains, water seeps through the cr...

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Fil Am Twin Brothers Get Jail Time For Marriage Fraud

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Manny and Marc Aguja are identical twins and they thought nobody could tell one from the other if one of them was away.
In fact, their sister, Servita Aguja-Aguilar, agrees that “growing up, Marc and Manny were inseparable. And they remain inseparable to this day – they are two sides of one coin.”

But Manny Aguja, a prominent Filipino American member of the Illinois bar, specializing in immigration cases, for more than ten years, made the mistake of telling his law office employee...

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Farm Workers Urge SC To Junk Cojuangco-Aquino's Plea

MANILA – Farm workers of the Hacienda Luisita urged the Supreme Court to declare with finality its November 22, 2011 decision ordering the distribution of 4,916 hectares of Hacienda Luisita land to the original 4,296 original farm worker beneficiaries (FWBs).

Through their counsel Jobert Pahilga, the farm workers opposed the motion filed by the Cojuangco-Aquinos last month seeking to increase the amount of compensation and to retain the option between owning stocks or land. In their motion, the H...

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