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Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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Meralco, GSIS set showdown
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Senate braces for ‘The Clash of the Titans’
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The Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) and the
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will face off in what
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago had billed as “The Clash of the
Titans” as the Joint Congressional Power Commission (PowerCom)
starts its inquiry today into the high power rates prevailing in the
country.
Winston Garcia, the GSIS president, is expected
to air his charges against the alleged mismanagement of Meralco by
the Lopez family. The Lopezes own 33 percent of the shares of
Meralco, and the GSIS, 23 percent.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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‘Butchoy’ may cause landslides, flash floods
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The national weather bureau on Sunday warned residents in Southern
Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao to brace for landslides and flash
floods that Typhoon “Butchoy” (international code name: “Rammasun”)
may bring.
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NOTES & COMMENTS
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Federalism now?
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Simplifying govt should be our first
concern
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Those who advocate federalism now may be jumping
the gun. That “there can be no sound decentralization until there
has first been centralization” is apparently an axiom among
students of public administration.
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No cure for costly medicines?
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Draft law affirms patent rights of drug
firms
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IT WON'T be over even after the lady signs. And even after she signs it, the fight for popular access to affordable medicines won't be over.
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Bunye back to banking, will be GMA adviser
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Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said he is leaving President Gloria
Arroyo’s official family next month “to fulfill a wish of going
back to banking.”
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Surging food prices bite across Asia
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From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the
soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and
raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn.
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GEMS OF HISTORY
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A great physicist
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Of the 11 members of the Philippine Atomic
Energy Commission set up in 1958, one was a Chinese physicist named
Hsieh Yu Ming. Hsieh is mentioned in a Chinese article published in
1961 about Dr. Frank Co Tui, the Father of Philippine Science.
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