Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando has found an ally among three Metro Manila congressmen who vowed over the weekend to block a bill pushing for the abolition of the MMDA.
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House Speaker Jose C. de Venecia Jr. has revealed that a Cebu-based businessman believed to be behind a multi-billion peso illegal drugs operation that was busted by local drug enforcement operatives will soon be sent back from Hong Kong to face criminal prosecution here.
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Filipino mechanic-turned-inventor Pablo Planas will meet with United States President George W. Bush and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an attempt to promote globally his invention, the Khaos Super Turbo Charger (KSTC) gas-saving device.
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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — An Australian woman wrongly deported to the Philippines is likely to return to Australia this week for the first time in four years, her lawyer said yesterday.
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TABUK, Kalinga — Three Army soldiers, including a second lieutenant, were killed while three others were wounded when an undetermined number of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels ambushed them while they were on combat patrol yesterday morning in Balantoy, Balbalan, Kalinga.
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Two suspected vendors of marijuana seeds were arrested and a total of 23.5 kilos of marijuana seeds valued at R587,000 were confiscated during buy-bust operations the other day in Pasig and Antipolo cities.
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If Senator Manuel B. Villar Jr., president of the Nacionalista Party, would have his way, the school opening in the country would not be next month or June but in September.
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Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Arturo C. Lomibao said yesterday that selling of assignments in the PNP is never a practice nor a tradition in the police organization as he condemned and described news that PNP assignments or designations in the regional and city levels were for sale.
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Malacañang yesterday remained optimistic that regional wage boards would set higher wages for workers in the private sector before the end of the month.
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Senator Manuel B. Villar Jr. is the richest senator with a net worth of R620,753,827 while Senator Juan Flavier is once more the poorest among the 23 senators with a net worth of a little more than R2 million.
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Executives of a company that imports oil were charged yesterday before the Department of Justice (DoJ) as the Department of Finance (DoF) and the Bureau of Customs (BoC) jointly launched an antismuggling drive called "Run After The Smugglers (RATS)."
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Malacañang defended yesterday certain Cabinet members using security escorts and blaring sirens in their road travels, saying such "privilege" may be requested for additional protection from death threats.
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Not Viron Bus in Benguet crash
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