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Friday, March 07, 2008 |
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Senate sets inquiry
into Spratlys accord |
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By Efren L. Danao Senior
Reporter
Add one more item on the long
list of Senate inquiries—the agreement
between the Philippines and China for a joint exploration in the
South China Sea, including the disputed Spratly Islands.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson has filed
Senate Resolution 319 seeking an investigation into the agreement
signed on September 2, 2004 with China, supposedly in exchange for
$8 billion in official development assistance from that country.
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Tourism sets
sights on European market
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The Department of Tourism wants
to get more European tourists into the country and has set a selling
mission to Norway, Sweden and Copenhagen this March.
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CA stops bank from
managing steel firm
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The Court of Appeals has stopped
a regional trial court from enforcing the latter’s order that
allows the creditors of a giant steel firm from taking over its
operations through a management committee (ManCom).
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Head of
president’s antismuggling group set to resign
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Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group
(PASG) chief Antonio Villar said he is resigning in disgust over the
moves at the House of Representatives to abolish his agency.
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Counterfeiting,
piracy operations funding terrorism
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Counterfeiting is becoming a primary source of
funding for terror groups, a security forum in Manila was told
Thursday.
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Two Filipinos
killed in Japan sea mishap
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Two Filipino seamen died while
two others are still missing after a cargo ship collided with two
other vessels off the Akashi Channel in Kobe, Japan on Wednesday
afternoon.
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Trillanes scores
Oakwood hearings
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“Do your worst, for we have
already been acquitted by the people.” These were the words of
detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th, who said that he will no longer
participate in the ongoing trial on the 2003 Oakwood mutiny.
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