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Sunday, October 05, 2008 |
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Pinoy deportees beaten by police |
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Probe group finds men, women and children
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ZAMBOANGA CITY: Illegal Filipino workers expelled
from Malaysia’s Sabah state have been severely beaten by police, a
fact-finding body said on Saturday.
Thousands of Filipinos, including
women and children, remained in Malaysian detention centers “and
suffering from inhumane conditions,” said Luzviminda Ilagan, a
member of the Philippines’ House of Representatives and of the
Fact-Finding Committee on Sabah Deportees.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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AIG to divest stake in Philamlife
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IT’S now official.The
Philippines’ largest and most diversified insurance firm,
Philippine American Life Insurance Co. (Philamlife), is for sale
after its parent American International Group Inc. (AIG) was driven
to the brink of collapse.
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MILF rebels attack, torch buildings in
Sarangani
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ZAMBOANGA CITY: Rebels from the
separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) raided a southern
Mindanao village and torched government buildings there and later
fired anti-tank rockets at a coconut plantation, wounding two
civilians, officials said on Saturday.
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Lim thanks Pagcor for backing Manila
projects
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Mayor Alfredo Lim of Manila
thanked the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) for
supporting fully his projects for the City of Manila and helping
generate 400,000 jobs.
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Plying pirate-infested Gulf of Aden
‘unavoidable’
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Skipping the Gulf of Aden, the
“gateway for Persian oil,” is an unlikely option in avoiding
pirate attacks.
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Philippines’ breast-cancer incidence rate
Asia’s highest
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Breast cancer is the leading
killer of women ages 35 to 54 worldwide. More than a million develop
the disease without knowing it, and almost 500,000 women die from it
every year.
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Opposition’s proposed budget cuts opposed
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Administration lawmakers in the
House of Representatives over the weekend rejected a suggestion of
the minority bloc to trim the proposed P1.415-trillion national
budget for 2009 by as much as P200 billion.
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