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Considering the absence of an enabling law, does the Palace-supported People's Initiative remain as the most acceptable means of amending the constitution?
In a last-ditch effort to amend the fundamental law, the administration has resorted to try an option already ruled by the Supreme Court as unacceptable for lack of a requisite legislation that should govern its conduct.
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RESIGNING (AP)
Outgoing Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (center) is surrounded and cheered by supporters as he arrives at the Thai Rak Thai party office, Wednesday, April 5, 2006, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thaksin told crowds of supporters that he would not stay on in a caretaker role but will let Deputy Prime Minister Chitchai Wannasathit become acting prime minister.
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President Arroyo celebrates birthday in Lubao, Pampanga
LUBAO, Pampanga — President Arroyo yesterday returned here to her hometown to celebrate her 59th birth anniversary, wishing for more jobs, quality education, and good health for Filipinos.
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Nat’l budget passed with 145-16 vote
The House of Representatives led by Speaker Jose De Venecia Jr. worked double time Tuesday night on third and final reading of two major legislative proposals – the 2006 General Appropriations Act and the Anti-Terrorism Bill – before going into a month-long summer recess.
Congressmen likewise...
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World Bank urges RP: Streamline fiscal incentives
To facilitate private investments in infrastructure and other sectors, the World Bank has urged government to streamline fiscal incentives.
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RP’s FIBA bid suffers a blow
SEOUL, South Korea — The Philippine Olympic Committee’s bid to have FIBA lift the country’s basketball suspension suffered a major blow Tuesday night when Patrick Baumann, the federation’s secretary general, rejected the constitution and by-laws of Pilipinas Basketball and said the FIBA can’t act on the matter unless the Basketball Association of the Philippines is made part of the equation.
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Complete list of successful bar examinees
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G.M.A. WITH HOSPICIO ORPHANS ON HER BIRTHDAY
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joins the orphans of Hospicio de San Jose on Ayala Bridge in Manila to start the celebration of her 59th birth anniversary yesterday, Wednesday, April 5, 2006. She later proceeded with her family to her hometown in Lubao, Pampanga, where a thanksgiving mass was offered.
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Bicol region, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming more frequent rains over the eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers. Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Temperature range –
24.3°C – 33.2°C
Tides
High: 3:18 p.m., 0.96 m.
Low: 12:36 p.m., -0.15 m.
Sunrise — 5:49 a.m.
Sunset — 6:09 p.m.
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