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Monday, March 03, 2008 |
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SC will force Neri to talk |
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Justices need to hear his conversation with GMA
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What Romulo Neri refused to tell the Senate
about his conversation with President Gloria Arroyo about the
national broadband deal, he may be compelled to reveal to the
Supreme Court in an executive session.
Last year, Neri testified before a Senate
blue-ribbon committee hearing that he was offered a P200-million
bribe by then Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. of the Commission on
Elections. Neri was then director general of the National Economic
and Development Authority (NEDA), which reviewed the now scrapped
$330-million broadband deal that was allegedly being brokered by
Abalos. He denied bribing Neri and brokering the deal.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Senate sets sights on $932-million
southrail investigation
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The Senate blue-ribbon committee will look into
the $932-million SouthRail project after it finishes the inquiry
into the national broadband controversy. Also waiting in the wings
are the TransCo and Cyber Education Project investigations.
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NOTES & COMMENT
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‘It’s the system, stupid!’
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Are we riding willy-nilly another wave of people
power? At the rate we seem to be routinizing what is properly a
“once-in-a-lifetime” event for any nation, we’ll never attain
the long-term stability we need to modernize our country.
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More protests vowed against GMA
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Foes of embattled President Gloria Arroyo held a “Mass for the
truth” on Sunday and vowed more street protests in the coming
weeks to press for her resignation.
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FEATURE
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Gold upstream, poison
downstream at Mt. Diwata
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MOUNT DIWATA, Davao: Fortune favors the brave in this gold rush
region of the southern Philippines, but the poison that goes with
the new wealth spares no one.
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SPECIAL
REPORT: BIOFUELS: BANE OR BOON?
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Philippines first to have, last to use biofuels
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First of two parts
Plant oils or extracts for fuel are old hat to
Filipinos. But having a law for the general use of biofuels for
transport—the Biofuels Act of 2006—is very new.
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