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Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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Palace, MILF reach deal
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Parties agree on ancestral domain issue – Esperon
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ZAMBOANGA CITY: Philippine peace negotiators and Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) rebels reached an agreement late Wednesday
on the issue of ancestral domain, a breakthrough in the
seven-year-old peace talks aimed at putting an end to more than four
decades of bloody fighting in southern Mindanao.
Philippine peace adviser Secretary Hermogenes
Esperon Jr. said both panels agreed on the deal at the end of the
meeting in Malaysia, which is brokering the negotiations.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Diesel to go up, as crude falls steeply
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Diesel prices are expected to increase again within the week,
despite a sharp decline in world oil prices that closed at $138 a
barrel.
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Malaysian authorities arrest Anwar Ibrahim
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was arrested
Wednesday just as he was due to face police interrogation over
allegations he sodomized a male aide, his lawyer and police said.
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GSIS bares names of car insurance cartel
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The chief of the state pension fund named companies that allegedly
compose a cartel in a sector of the country’s insurance industry.
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Typhoon ‘Helen’ nears N. Luzon
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Typhoon Helen maintained its strength as it moved closer to the
Philippines’ northernmost province of Cagayan on Tuesday night,
according to the national weather bureau.
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Neri good in golf, politics
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Last of two parts
The way one director understood it, Romulo Neri
played politics as a matter of course in public policy. The NEDA
secretariat and other oversight bureaucracies are to exert effort in
providing full information to decide policy, he said, and that
necessitated engaging with politicians and playing the game of
politics.
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SC junks petition for disclosure on JPEPA
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The Supreme Court voted 10-4 dismissing a petition by militant
groups for a full disclosure of all details—from negotiations to
signing—concerning a controversial free-trade agreement between
the Philippines and Japan.
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