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President to speak at UN
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President Gloria Arroyo is pushing through with her planned trip
to the United States next week to address the opening of the 63rd
United Nations General Assembly.
Malacañang announced this month that President
Arroyo was canceling her US trip so she can attend to the pressing
matters in the country, particularly the security situation in
Mindanao.
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Minority not present in Senate session
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No member of the Senate minority attended the session Wednesday, a
day after a number of them walked out rather than let Sen. Alan
Peter Cayetano defend himself from the tirades of Sen. Panfilo
Lacson ahead of Sen. Jamby Madrigal’s interpellation of Lacson.
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DAR’s 2009 travel budget questioned by Congress
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MEMBERS of the House Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday were
surprised by the large allocation by the Department of Agrarian
Reform (DAR) for its travel, donations and subsidies, which forms
almost half of the department’s P10-billion proposed budget for
2009.
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SC affirms Erwin
Tulfo, four others guilty of libel
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THE Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court ruling that found
newspaper columnist and former ABS-CBN anchor Erwin Tulfo and four
others guilty of four counts of libel.
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EU urges support for Reproductive Health Bill
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There is no reason to shun the Reproductive Health Bill, a European
envoy said Wednesday.
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Two Filipinos fall to pirate attack
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Filipino seafarers were among the 22 crewmembers of the Hong
Kong-flagged chemical tanker that was hijacked Sunday in the
pirate-infested Gulf of Aden, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported
Wednesday.
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