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Category: News

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    DepEd: No time to correct ‘Asya’ error

    Jun 04, 2008 1:43 AM

    THE Department of Education will continue distributing “Asya: Pag-usbong ng Kabihasnan “(Asia: Birth of Civilization) to public high schools without correcting the errors that depict Taiwan as a country, in violation […]


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    2 more bills eye Kalayaan as ‘regime of islands’

    By Yvonne T. Chua  |  May 01, 2008 9:49 AM

    TWO more bills recommending that the Kalayaan Island Groups (KIG) in the disputed Spratlys group be declared a “regime of islands” have been filed in Congress. The proposals, introduced in the […]

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    Santiago to freeze baseline bills

    By ELLEN TORDESILLAS  |  Apr 24, 2008 8:39 AM

    By ELLEN TORDESILLAS   DECLARING she was following President Arroyo’s order, Sen. Miriam Santiago, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, said Wednesday she will defer action on Senate Bill […]


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    House defers action on baseline bill

    Apr 22, 2008 2:53 AM

    CEBU Rep. Antonio V. Cuenco on Monday agreed to a proposal of House Speaker Prospero Nograles to postpone action on the baseline bill on third reading until the Legislative Executive […]


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    VERA Files’ reaction to Teves statement

    Apr 12, 2008 11:46 AM

    THE POINTS raised by former Negros Oriental representative Herminio Teves in reaction to the VERA Files stories “Ethical lapses mark passage of biofuels law” and “Iggy Arroyo to use biofuels […]


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    Teves’ reaction to VERA Files story in Philippine Star

    Apr 12, 2008 11:30 AM

    ON YOUR April 8th issue, the article titled “Ethical Lapses Mark Ok Bio Fuels Law” allegedly written by Jessica Hermosa and Johanna Sisante, my name was mentioned as one who […]


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    Zubiri’s statement on biofuels story

    Apr 09, 2008 3:30 AM

    I HAVE never denied that I am a scion from a sugar producing family. That my great-grandfather was planting sugarcane in the fields of Kabankalan, Negros almost 90 years ago. […]


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    Vera Files’ reaction to Zubiri statement

    Apr 09, 2008 3:00 AM

    THE VERA Files story, “Ethical lapses mark passage of biofuels law” written by Jessica Hermosa and Johanna Sisante, was the result of six months’ research that included gathering and reading […]


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    Farmers dare Iggy Arroyo: Place land under CARP

    Apr 08, 2008 3:45 PM

    A PEASANT federation based in Bacolod City on Tuesday dared presidential brother-in-law and Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo to make good his word and place the 157-hectare family-owned Hacienda […]


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    Iggy Arroyo: CARP to cover family-owned land

    Apr 08, 2008 3:20 PM

    PRESIDENTIAL brother-in-law Rep. Jose Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo indicated yesterday that the sugar plantation the Arroyo family owns in Negros Occidental would still be covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program […]


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