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Budget reforms up close
By verafiles
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Mar 26, 2013
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By CHERRY JOY VENILES IN Florencio “Butch” Abad’s book, the national budget is a game—a game, he says, in which “political actors with conflicting demands and competing to get a larger pie of the nation’s scarce resources.” But years of experience as politician, lawmaker, academic and Cabinet secretary in three government administrations have also shown
Farmers score Angaras for ‘landgrabbing’ in Aurora
By verafiles
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Nov 28, 2012
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By JONATHAN DE SANTOS
CLOSE to 3,000 families in Casiguran, Aurora stand to lose land that many of them have been tilling for half a century to make way for the extension of a Freeport zone that critics say does not benefit the community at all.
Pinning their hopes on GPH –MILF pact
By verafiles
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Nov 13, 2012
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By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON
BAGA-IR Panaggulan was on his boat that sunny day of Sept. 8, 2008, fishing in the Pulangi River in Bukidnon in Mindanao when he saw a boatload of soldiers armed for combat. Baga-ir, then 28, hurriedly paddled to shore. He asked his wife Zaida to pack their clothes and get ready to run.
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