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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
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GMA strikes back at
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Fighting graft, boosting reforms among priorities |
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By Angelo S. Samonte Reporter
Battling corruption, sustaining
economic reforms, and encouraging more investments are her higher
concerns in her last two years in office, President Gloria Arroyo
told industry leaders in Hong Kong on Monday.
President
Arroyo told the global financial and business executives that the
political noise in the Philippines will not stop her from further
boosting the country’s economy until her term expires in 2010.
Apparently, she was referring to the ruckus being made by her
critics over alleged instances of graft in her administration, among
them in the aborted $330-million national broadband deal. More
recently, the political foes of the President blamed her for the
supposed “rice crisis” that they said was caused in part by
connivance between corrupt government officials and rice hoarders.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Palace Eyes
Stopping Land Conversion To Avert Crisis
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Malacañang wants to stop the
conversion of prime farmlands for uses other than agricultural and
to repeal the truck ban to avert a possible rice shortage, the
National Economic and Development Authority said Monday.
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71% see themselves
as poor or very poor, says Pulse Asia poll
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Around two of every three
Filipinos believe that the national economy is worse than it was
three years ago, the latest Pulse Asia survey showed. The survey
results were released Monday.
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Government needs
higher tax revenues
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Raising taxes while channeling
resources toward high-quality spending can help the government
sustain growth and reduce poverty, the Philippines Development
Forum’s working group said.
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Most productive
committee chairmen: Chiz, Pia, Angara
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Senator Francis Escudero is the
runaway leader among Senate committee chairmen in the number of
reports approved for plenary session before the Lenten recess.
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Philippine foreign
debt continues to rise in 2007
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Philippine foreign debt grew
slightly in 2007, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said Monday, a
development attributed by critics to government’s efforts to
secure financing to fast-track its development programs.
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SPECIAL REPORT
: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Development faces
economic, political barriers
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Like most scientists in the
Philippines, physicist Dr. Giovanni Tapang, chairman of the Agham
collective and faculty member of the University of the Philippines,...
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