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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

 

Abductors of Bossi slip away

By Anthony Vargas, Reporter

The small band of gunmen holding Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi as a hostage slipped through the blockade set up by the military in Zamboanga Sibugay, a senior military official said Monday.

Maj. Gen. Ben Mohammad Dolorfino said Bossi’s kidnappers were no longer in a heavily forested area of Naga town.

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Resignations from the heads of corporations and financial firms owned or run by the government poured into the Office of the President Monday as Malacañang carried out the first phase...

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Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita emphasized this point Monday as he sought to put an end to reports of a high-level reshuffle that have been in the news since last week.

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Aquilino Pimentel 3RD, who is hanging on to 12th place in the senatorial contest, on Monday warned that the Commission on Elections could be presented with doctored documents if it holds its inquiry in Maguindanao.

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Police investigators should look into the possible involvement of drugs and even the New People’s Army (NPA) in the killing of cousins Alfredo “Patty” and Virgilio “Boyet” Vendivil...

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Seventeen residents of Antipolo City were taken to hospital on Monday with symptoms of malaria, as health officials prepared to fumigate several Antipolo barangays to kill the mosquitoes that carry the disease.

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US Ambassador Kristie Kenney said on Monday that the US still sees terrorism as a big threat in the Philippines, especially in Mindanao, even as she praised the efforts of the Arroyo administration against insurgents.

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THE Taguig City government on Monday launched a city­wide feeding program dubbed “Hot Meal and Milk for Day-Care Centers” as a way to fight malnutrition.

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