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Do you really think the government wasn't too aggressive enough in handling the Subic rape case?
As the controversy goes on as to whether or not local authorities should take custody of the six US Marines accused of raping a 22-year-old woman, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago lamented the exponentially "slow" response of national officials in asserting the country's jurisdiction over the Marines. She said that "they are always worried we might incur their displeasure, and this encourages them to be nonchalant about the provisions of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)".
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| What the negotiating table failed to achieve in years, sports could very well accomplish, even if only for one fleeting moment today as the 23rd Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) formally unfolds in a blaz |
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NEW DELHI (AFP) — At least 119 people died or were feared dead in four catastrophes — two bridge accidents in India, flooding in southern Thailand, and an earthquake in central China — yesterday.
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The national government will have to operate under a reenacted budget, at least in the first month of 2006, House Speaker Jose de Venecia and Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. said last Friday.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo leads the cornerstone-laying ceremonies for the NYK-TDG Maritime Academy in Canlubang, Laguna, with former President Fidel V. Ramos, NYK Line (Japan) Honorary Chairman Jiro Nemoto, and Transnational Diversified Group (TDG) Chairman J. Robert Delgado (partly hidden). Among those looking on are Laguna Gov. Teresita Lazaro, Labor and Employment Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas, and Carmelray Industrial Park Chairperson Carmen Yulo. The academy is a joint-venture project between NYK Line, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, and TDG of the Philippines. (Ramon I. Samson)
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Eastern Luzon will have cloudy skies with rainshowers becoming frequent over Bicol region. Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of Luzon will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range — 24.6°C – 30.7°C
Tide — High: 6:06 a.m., 0.60 m.
Low: 1:22 a.m., 0.48 m.
Sunrise — 6:03 a.m.
Sunset — 5:24 p.m.
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G.M.A. AT CORNERSTONE RITES.
