Economic and security issues on agenda
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The United States Congress recently passed a resolution recognizing the centennial of sustained migration of Filipinos to the United States, to be highlighted by year-long festivities that begin this month.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday signed an economic cooperation accord with Russia, opening a new era of cooperation between the two sides.
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AL-KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia – Speaker Jose de Venecia, during his four-day visit to Saudi Arabia last week, said the Philippine government would seriously consider setting up a consular office in the Kingdom’s eastern region where more than 200,000 overseas Filipino workers are based.
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Five people were confirmed dead while 43,203 families or 192,437 persons were hit by flashfloods and landslides brought by northeast monsoon in Oriental Mindoro and Quezon provinces and other parts of Regions 4 and 5 the past several days, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said yesterday, adding that an easterly wave also started affecting Visayas and Mindanao.
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The Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr., sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), will start the re-tabulation of returns and revision of ballots cast in the vice presidential elections of May 10, 2004, on Monday, Dec. 12, at the Court of Appeals Compound in Manila.
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An administration lawmaker warned yesterday that the "death by budgetary strangulation" plan that the Senate intends to mete out on the intelligence arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) could "endanger public safety and national security."
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