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Saturday, January 26, 2008 |
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Manero walks out of jail |
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Priest killer says he didn’t eat the brains of Fr.
Favali
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Convicted priest killer Norberto Manero Jr., 63,
was released from prison on Friday after Justice Secretary Raul
Gonzalez issued a ruling affirming the commutation of Manero’s
sentence. The convict had spent 23 years in jail.
Lawyer Persida Acosta, chief of the Public
Attorney’s Office, had to wait for three hours at the Department
of Justice before Gonzalez finally signed the endorsement to
Director Oscar Calderon of the Bureau of Corrections. The
endorsement orders Manero’s immediate release from the New Bilibid
Prisons in Muntinlupa City in southern Metro Manila.
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President Arroyo renews
calls to step up Doha round
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President Gloria Arroyo renewed her call for
pushing forward the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of
talks during her meeting with a US official at the ongoing World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Moody’s raises country’s
credit outlook to positive
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Moody’s Investors Service, one of the three
key international credit-rating firms, upgraded its assessment of
the sovereign credit outlook on the Philippines to “positive”
from “stable” because of the country’s lessened dependence on
foreign loans.
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Cheating rampant in 2004–Pulse Asia
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Seven of 10 Filipinos in Mindanao believe presidential candidates
cheated in the 2004 elections, while almost six of 10 think
President Gloria Arroyo was involved in poll fraud, a Pulse Asia
survey showed.
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RP ‘green’ laws all bark, no bite –SWS
survey
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Many Filipinos believe that laws on protection
of the environment are toothless, according to a survey by the
Social Weather Stations (SWS) that was commissioned by Greenpeace.
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Archbishop wants to raise
age limit on marriages
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A senior member of the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) wants the age requirement for
marriage raised so as to better prepare couples on the
responsibilities of married life.
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SC circular on libel not just for newsmen
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THE Supreme Court’s new guidelines expressing
preference for imposing “fines,” rather than imprisonment for
those found guilty of libel, should not only cover journalists.
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