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Hanjin to hire 24,000 more |
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Filipino seafarers still in demand worldwide
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Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corp. will hire 24,000 more
Filipino workers for its Subic and Misamis Oriental plants, the
government announced on Tuesday.
At present, Hanjin Philippines Inc., the
corporation’s main office in the Philippines, employs 16,000
workers.
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US HIGH-TECH FIRM TO LAY OFF FILIPINOS
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BAGUIO: US high-tech components producer Moog Inc. will cut staff at
its Philippines unit by almost 30 percent as it is hit by the global
economic downturn, the local Labor office reported Tuesday.
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Senate asks Supreme Court to dismiss Villar’s petition
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The Senate Committee of the Whole, represented by Senate President
Juan Ponce Enrile, on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss for
“lack of merit” a petition filed by embattled Sen. Manuel Villar
Jr.
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House again pushes ‘Con-Ass’ after SONA
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House Speaker Prospero Nograles on Tuesday disclosed that the House
of Representatives may be able to convene into a Constituent
Assembly (Con-Ass) after President Gloria Arroyo’s State of the
Nation Address (Sona) in July.
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Sec. Puno claims to be ‘poster boy’ for elections next year
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Interior Secretary Ronalso Puno on Tuesday assured that the 2010
presidential elections would be held as scheduled and amending the
Constitution before those polls was virtually impossible.
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South Korea, Asean sign sweeping pacts
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SEOGWIPO, South Korea: South Korea and Asean on Tuesday completed a
free-trade agreement covering almost 650 million people, while
vowing to fight protectionism and tackling together the global
economic crisis.
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DOH quarantines 36 people in Nueva Ecija
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Health authorities quarantined on Tuesday 36 people—including 29
students—in Nueva Ecija province for having had direct contact
with a 19-year-old Filipina who arrived in the country from the
United States and tested positive for Influenza A(H1N1) virus.
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Firms hike kerosene, gas prices
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Petroleum companies hiked fuel prices Tuesday on account of higher
world oil prices.
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Zubiri dares Church: Give up farmlands
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Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Tuesday urged the
Catholic Church and other entities exempted from the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to give up their agricultural lands
in favor of farmers.
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NBI prepares for extradition of Mancao
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Former police Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao 2nd, a prime suspect in the
Salvador “Bubby” Dacer-Emmanuel Corbito double murder, would be
treated as an extraditee with a death threat, the National Bureau of
Investigation (NBI) reported Tuesday.
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