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RESIDENTS
of the interior villages of Datu Piang flee to safety to
barangay Butelin on small boats. Five members of one
such family that tried to flee by water, the Mandi
family, died and two others are missing after being hit,
allegedly by government fire, as soldiers kept pursuing
Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels who had raided
several towns in the past few weeks.
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TOP STORIES |
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Roxas fired, Sabio suspended |
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COURT of
Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Vicente Roxas has been
ordered dismissed by the Supreme Court (SC) after he was
found guilty of multiple violations of the canons of the
Code of Judicial Conduct, grave misconduct, dishonesty,
undue interest and conduct prejudicial to the best interest
of the service in connection with his July 23 ponencia
upholding the control of the Lopez bloc over the Manila
Electric Co. (Meralco). |
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TMAP insists on full-year tax
relief period |
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THE Tax
Management Association of the Philippines (TMAP), composed
of tax practitioners from the country’s largest companies,
said on Tuesday that it is standing by its position that the
government must revise the draft implementing provisions of
Republic Act (RA) 9504, or the tax-relief package law.
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Imports seen to augment holiday
chicken supply |
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DESPITE an
assurance from local growers that chicken will be plentiful
for the Christmas and New Year holidays, the government will
allow imports of the bird to prevent unreasonable price
hikes that usually happen with the increased demand.
Trade
Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya said, “At least, if that
option is there, we can import anytime to safeguard the
public against price increases.” |
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Bread loaves more expensive by P1.50 soon–Philbaking |
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LOCAL bakers
will increase by P1.50 the prices of 600-gram loaves of
bread starting next week due mainly to the P40 to P50 hike
in flour prices in the domestic market. |
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Government, private firms’
prepayments: $1.3B |
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PRIVATE
enterprises and their public-sector counterparts continue to
trim their foreign-debt obligations, with debt-prepayment
activities reaching $1.304 billion as of latest available
data.
According to
documents obtained from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP),
the foreign IOUs terminated earlier by private enterprises
had reached $856.3 million as at September 5 this year. |
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With roads cut off by fighting,
Mindanao evacuees fleeing by boats |
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BUTELIN,
Datu Piang, Maguindanao—In a small nipa hut, the floor of
which is only two feet above water, the bullet-riddled
bodies of five civilian fatalities lay.
Still
shocked, weeping relatives could not bring themselves to
identify the bodies. |
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Palace orders probe into
civilians’ deaths |
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Malacañang
has ordered an investigation into the military air strike
against a group of suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
members on Monday that reportedly killed six civilians.
Press
Secretary Jesus Dureza said the Palace wanted to know if the
air assault was in response to “extreme need” that caused
the military to ignore operational guidelines. |
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Shouting match mars hearing on
Cha-cha |
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A SHOUTING
match marred the congressional hearing on the move to amend
the Constitution on Tuesday as opposition legislators
continued to insist that a nationwide consultation be
conducted before putting the Charter change (Cha-cha)
measure to a vote. In the end and as expected, the allies of
Malacañang prevailed and voted 12-4 to pursue the voting
sans nationwide consultation. |
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Prosecutorial powers eyed for
BOC, BIR |
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THE chairman
of the Senate ways and means committee is eyeing the grant
of special prosecutorial powers to the Bureaus of Customs
(BOC) and Internal Revenue (BIR) in going after smugglers
and tax evaders to effectively plug the reported revenue
hemorrhage estimated at more than P140 billion. |
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US
troops: growing, permanent |
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A COALITION
of rights groups and civil-society organizations said its
fact-finding mission showed a growing and permanent US
military presence in Mindanao, as it urged the government to
suspend further deployment of American troops in the South. |
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THAI Prime
Minister Samak Sundaravej checks an anchovy as he shops
for items to cook for Thai Embassy staff at the
Guadalupe wet market in Makati City when he visited the
Philippines in May. Samak, a foodie, was forced to
resign after a court ruled he violated the
constitutional ban on public servants holding private
jobs because he kept appearing on TV shows on food and
cooking even after his election as prime minister.
--AP FILE |
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