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Saturday, January 19, 2008 |
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Lakas-Kampi split
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President’s party looking to field its own 2010 bet
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President Gloria Arroyo’s Kabalikat ng
Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) might field its own presidential candidate
in the 2010 elections, prompting the party to say this move will
lead to the collapse of the ruling coalition, Lakas-Christian Muslim
Democrats (Lakas).
Kampi is a member of that coalition.
Vice-President Noli de Castro is among those
being groomed to be the party’s standard-bearer, Raul Lambino,
spokesman for Lakas, said Friday.
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Noli de Castro: ‘I won fair and square’ as
VP
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VICE-President Noli de Castro said Friday that
the decision of the Supreme Court upholding his victory in the 2004
elections against now Sen. Loren Legarda is a “triumph of
truth.”
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Meralco can recover generation cost–ERC
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The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) gave
Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) the green light to recover from
consumers less than half of the power generation costs it previously
spent as payment to its power suppliers.
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President presses Senate to ratify JPEPA
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President Gloria Arroyo said she wishes that the Senate would ratify
an economic agreement between Manila and Tokyo without further
delay.
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Explosion at Subic shipyard kills
2 workers, injures 4 others
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SUBIC BAY, Zambales: Two shipyard workers were
confirmed killed and four others injured on Friday in an explosion
at a dry dock of a South Korean-run shipyard here, officials said.
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Pinoys get reward for
helping case vs. polluters
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THE United States Embassy in Manila awarded some
$730,000 to eight Filipino seamen on Friday for helping prosecute
the owners and officers of two ships that illegally dumped sludge
oil and contaminated wastewater in the US.
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Chess legend Fischer dead, 64
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REYKJAVIK: US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer, whose tortured genius
prompted both awe and outrage, has died at the age of 64, Icelandic
media reports said Friday.
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