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Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
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Govt workers get pay
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Private sector employees not so lucky, as wage boards
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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental: President Gloria Arroyo is
expected to sign an executive order that will grant a 10-percent
increase in the salaries of the country’s more than one million
state workers, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced
Wednesday.
Ermita said President Arroyo
would sign the order this afternoon in time for the celebration of
Labor Day, May 1, when she returns to Manila from this province
where she was a guest at the Second Strong Republic Nautical Highway
Conference.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Oreta looms as
secretary of education
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The next secretary of Education
could be former Sen. Teresa Aquino-Oreta under a Cabinet revamp set
for this month.
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More US soldiers
to arrive in Sulu province
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SULU: More US troops are expected
to arrive soon in the Philippines to support hundreds already
deployed in the southern part of the country aiding Filipino
soldiers in battling terrorism.
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Peacekeepers are
OFWs in uniform
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They could very well be called
“uniformed” overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), referring to the
hundreds of policemen deployed as UN peacekeepers around the world.
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Press freedom
loses more than gains–world report
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The Philippines was again
mentioned as a terrible place for journalists in Freedom House’s
latest report on press freedom around the world.
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Groups push for
maids’ dayoff
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SINGAPORE: Advocacy groups in
Singapore have joined forces to launch on Thursday a call for
foreign maids to get a regular dayoff.
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SPECIAL REPORT: EXPORTS SECTOR
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Agri goods remain
as top exports
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Philippine elementary and
high-school textbooks still talk of the Philippines as an
agricultural country which it was in the pre-Second World War era up
to the 1980s.
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