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MANILA’S
Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales gestures at the
press conference on the third anniversary of the Pondo ng
Pinoy, his phenomenal brainchild that has collected P150
million for charity, mostly in coins, from ordinary
people. At left is the Rev. Broderick Pabillo, auxiliary
bishop of Manila. -- ROY
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Palace withdraws dubious EO on BIR |
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THE
President’s controversial Executive Order 625, seen in some
concerned quarters as a bid to pull the rug from beneath the
beleaguered chief of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and to
“consolidate” an alternative power base in the agency, is no
more. |
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Search panel compiles info on GOCC appointees |
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PRESIDENT
Arroyo has ordered the Palace Search Committee to collate
information on her appointees in government-owned and
-controlled corporations and to scout for possible
replacements to those who may fail her performance review. |
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Lotilla pitches flexifuel cars |
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A LAW does
not make sense if what it is trying to promote could not be
used; in the case of the Biofuels Act of 2006 and the
government’s biofuels program, it will not be successful if
there are no vehicles that will be able to run using that
type of fuel. |
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Danding tells court: I paid P1.4B of loan |
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BUSINESSMAN
Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. informed the First Division of the
Sandiganbayan on Wednesday about the initial payment of P1.4
billion to United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) using the
proceeds of portions of the disputed 20-percent San Miguel
Corp. (SMC) shares that were sold to SMC Retirement Plan. |
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Diwalwal mine sites mulled |
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DAVAO
CITY—The Mines and GeoSciences Bureau office here proposes
to subdivide the gold-rich Mt. Diwata Range in eastern
Mindanao, where the small-scale Diwalwal public mining site
is located, into three sites to be tailored to specific
operations. |
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Court readies for closing stage of Estrada’s trial |
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THE Special
Division of the Sandiganbayan will hear the oral summations
of the defense and prosecution in former President Joseph
Estrada’s plunder case on Friday, signaling the closing
stage of the trial. |
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Banks not getting Pondo’s coin hoard |
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THE
Archdiocese of Manila will go back to the negotiating table
with various banks to improve the collection system for
loose change in view of complaints from financial
institutions about the continuing shortage of coins going
around—a situation that in the past was partly traced to the
phenomenal success of the church’s charity drive, Pondo ng
Pinoy (PnP). |
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Deadly find.
American troops participating
in the ongoing Philippines-United States military exercise
in Central Mindanao found themselves dispatched to an
interesting assignment: assess the powerful explosives
found abandoned on the highway in South Cotabato. The
explosives can level a medium-size community, officials
said.
Story on
Nation section.
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