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House adds P30B to social services |
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The House of Representatives added P30 billion to social services,
when it passed on second reading the proposed P1.227-trillion
national budget for 2008.
Meanwhile, the Senate is eyeing
to pass its budget bill by December 2. After that, differences
between the House and Senate versions will be reconciled in a
bicameral committee before going to the President for approval.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Pacquiao promoted,
to see troops in South
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BOXING sensation Manny
“PacMan” Pacquiao plans to visit his fellow soldiers who are in
the frontlines of Basilan and Sulu battling feared Abu Sayyaf
bandits, which is a very rare act among warriors of the square ring.
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Estrada wants
hospital arrest to be with mom
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Deposed former President Joseph
Estrada said Friday that he will ask the Sandiganbayan to place him
under hospital arrest or house arrest at his Greenhills home so he
can stay longer with his ailing 102-year-old mother.
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Human-rights
victims file $414M new claim
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Martial law human-rights victims
have asked the United Nations Committee on Human Rights to compel
the Philippine government to pay them $413.5 million, according to a
press release issued by Rod Domingo Jr....
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Al Gore, UN
climate change panel win Nobel Peace Prize
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Gore, a vice-president to Bill
Clinton and failed candidate for the White House in 2000, has reinvented
himself in recent years as a champion of climate change with his
2006 Oscar-winning documentary...
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Lawmakers condemn
Myanmar
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The Inter-Parliamentary Union has
adopted a resolution condemning the “repressive” military junta
of Myanmar and demanding the adoption of democratic reforms,” Sen.
Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said Friday.
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GMA to ignore
subpoena–Apostol
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President Gloria Arroyo will not
testify in the trial of Magdaló soldiers implicated in a mutiny
case, the Palace lawyer said.
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