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Economy grows 7.5% |
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Best second-quarter performance in 20 years, but
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The economy has surpassed
forecasts and expanded 7.5 percent year-on-year in the second
quarter, the fastest pace in two decades, President Arroyo announced
Thursday.
“We are confident of meeting
our full-year growth forecast of 6.1 to 6.7 percent,” the
President said in a televised address.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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House may ask
Abalos to explain ZTE dealings
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Congressmen are likely to summon
Benjamin Abalos and officials of the Department of Transportation
and Communications (DOTC) in response to a privileged speech about
the controversial...
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Joma indicted in
The Hague today
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COMMUNIST Party of the
Philippines founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison, who was arrested
Tuesday on charges of murdering three former colleagues, will be
indicted in a court in The Hague on Friday.
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Will Senate segue
from ‘Garci’ to ‘Pappy’?
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The Senate may go from “Hello,
Garci” to “Hello Pappy” as an investigation loomed over
alleged cheating in the popular noontime show Wowowee on ABS-CBN.
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Joey Marquez
guilty in brooms case
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The Sandiganbayan on Thursday
found former mayor Joey Marquez of Parañaque City guilty of five
counts of graft in the case involving allegedly overpriced brooms
and sentenced him to 6 to 10 years each for each count.
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3 cities get nod
for public governance
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A program designed to improve the
quality of local governance in the country gave an award to Marikina,
Tagbilaran and San Fernando, Pampanga.
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GMA in Malaysia
for independence rites
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President Arroyo flew Thursday
afternoon to Malaysia to join other Southeast Asian leaders
attending that country’s 50th anniversary of independence from
British rule.
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