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Enrile elected Senate President; Belmonte, Speaker of the House

MANILA -- Despite the highly publicized battle for the Senate presidency of the Republic of the Philippines between Senators Manny Villar and Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan. incumbent Juan Ponce Enrile, was re-elected Senate President. Enrile was considered as the dark horse a week before the Sen...

VP Binay sworn-in as HUDCC chairman

MANILA - Former Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay will not only be serving as vice president of the country. On July 20, he took an oath of office, administered by no less than President Benigno C. Aquino III, as chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) in Malac...

RP Presidential Candidates -- What Do They Stand For?

MANILA — “The profiles of the leading presidential candidates underscore how Philippine elections continue to be basically elite-dominated and money-driven,” said Pagbabago! Co-chair Judy Taguiwalo. To help voters “gauge their candidates” the Pagbabago! People’s Movement for Change [2...

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One Beauty Queen & Eight Dead Tourists (Columnists/Ninotchka Rosca) ... of the nation's self-respect, stop acting like the country with its 100 million population is a beauty title contestant and/or a Chinese suzerainty. - ... 5. TUCP Leader: Termination of Filipino maids in HK exaggerated (World/Asia) ... from Indonesia, and the rest are mostly from Thailand. In 2009, Filipino workers based in Hong Kong wired home a total of US $339.55 million, down $66.58 million or 16.4 percent versus the $406.13 million ... 6. IBON: Proposed Budget Belies Promise of Universal Health Care (Business/Economics) ... then this implies that subsidies for indigents under the NHIP actually falls by Php1.67 billion. Budget allocation for 55 public hospitals nationwide also falls by Php363.7 million – from Php5.2 billion ... 7. The Dishonor of Militarism (Columnists/Guest Columnists) ... Far from opposing the militarism that has taken the lives more than a million people since 2001, Beck and Palin embrace it. As the Associated Press reported, “The event’s website says the rally is to ... 8. POLICY “LOCKJAW” (Rotator/Rotator News) ... with strange sounding names”. That’s 28 times the first clutch of timid migrants who waved pa-alam five decades back. Last year, another 1.42 million left. There were 18,436 international nuptials. For ... 9. SSS asked to refund members in loan overpayments (World/Asia) MANILA -- The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged the Social Security System (SSS) to immediately give back to its member-borrowers some P980 million in individual loan overpayments. ... 10. Curiouser and curiouser (Columnists/Juan L. Mercado) ... with those secret documents.” “Curiouser and curiouser” also describes adrenalin outbursts of a once somnolent Ombudsman. Cases mouldered in the Ombudsman’s dusty files. These included the P728-million ... 11. Handcuffing minds (Columnists/Juan L. Mercado) ... population now stands at 6.822 billion. Thus, the difference is a staggering 442 million The book contains many factual errors. Page 328: “Two endemic orchid species, kapa-kapa (Medinilla magnifica) and ... 12. Justified Jitters? (Columnists/Guest Columnists) ... reporters: “Focus your light and watch the cockroaches scamper.” Exposes aborted the $330 million ZTE broadband scam, the Joc-Joc Bolante fertilizer scam, over-importation of rice, and diversion of ... 13. Innovation: Improving Medicine and the Economy (Columnists/Guest Columnists) ... ninefold -- from $400 million to $3.7 billion. The venture capital raised by American biotech companies hit $4.6 billion last year. And biotech firms themselves invested nearly $45 billion in U.S.-based ... 14. 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Filipinos by the millions have tried, with some succeeding and others not, to find a new home in the United States because their ... 18. Shekel Power (Columnists/Juan L. Mercado) ... former chief of staff voted in favor of government secrecy in keystone cases: the overpriced ZTE $329-million national broadband network; executive privilege for NEDA Secretary Romulo Neri,’ Corona ... 19. Labor leader presses former GSIS GM for update on foreign investments (World/Asia) ... $565-million Global Investment Program (GIP). He said GSIS members have no idea whether the GIP has been making or losing money, and to what extent it has been generating gains or incurring losses. "Over ... 20. Guns-For-Hire Saloon (Columnists/Juan L. Mercado) ... of office, Rep. Erin Tañada ( Quezon) told abs-cbnnews. com/Newsbreak‘s Rufo Aries. They’d address scams that Gutierrez pigeonholed: Joc-Joc Bolantes’ P728-million fertilizer scam, $329-million National ...
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