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Do you believe the Senate should pursue its investigation on the controversial state of the OWWA funds?
Over the years, many sectors have, time and again, questioned the government's handling of the OFWs' funds which is now estimated to have reached P8 billion. Renewed public
suspicion is fueled by the government's dismal response to the plight of OFWs trapped in the Israel-Lebanon conflict, described by Senator Joker Arroyo as "criminal indifference."
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NEW FLOWER LAUNCHED
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo receives the ‘Mussaenda Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’ flower from Dr. Teresita L. Rosario, professor and plant breeder of the Crop Science Cluster, College of Agriculture of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños at the launching and presentation of the new flower in Malacañang on Aug. 2, 2006. The Chief Executive holds all her appointments in Malacañang to enable her to rest while doing some work after recovering from the flu. (Ramon I. Samson)
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5 Cabinet men named for GMA's super-regions
President Arroyo has named five "Cabinet champions" for each of the five super-regions into which various provinces and regions of the country were recently grouped to boost development and productivity especially in the countryside, Malacañang officials said yesterday.
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Villar: Cabinet men should account for snubbing hearings
Senate President Manuel Villar yesterday warned Cabinet members and top officials that they are held accountable to the Senate as a whole for snubbing last Monday’s Senate committee hearing on the "disorganized, under-funded" repatriation of overseas Filipino workers in war-torn Lebanon and the alleged depletion of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration funds.
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Letran shares lead
DEFENDING CHAMPION Letran was probably still recovering from its shock loss to San Beda last Friday when they faced College of St. Benilde yesterday at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium.
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Malacañang yesterday stood by its decision to prevent officials from testifying in the Senate inquiry on the alleged mismanagement of the P8-billion trust fund administered by the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) amid threats from senators to have these officials arrested if they fail to show up in the next Senate hearings.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Malacañang’s directive for officials not to attend the Senate hearings on the alleged mismanagement of the P8-billion OWWA trust fund is based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the President’s use of "executive privilege" in preventing officials...
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Mayon Volcano’s lava flow nears 6-km danger zone
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) yesterday continued to remind the public to stay away from Mayon volcano’s six-kilometer (km) Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ) as the advancing lava flow from its summit crater, particularly in the Mabinit Channel, has almost reached the edge of the six-kilometer PDZ at 5.9 kms.
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Erap files P30-M libel suit vs woman, newspaper
Detained former President Joseph Estrada yesterday filed a P30-million libel case against a daily newspaper and a woman who accused him of money laundering.
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Evacuation of all Filipinos in Lebanon ordered by GMA
President Arroyo yesterday ordered the evacuation of all Filipinos from Lebanon, saying not a single compatriot should be hurt in the escalating cross-border violence in the Middle East.
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IMF forecasts lower GDP growth for 2006 and 2007
The International Monetary Fund has lowered its gross domestic product or GDP forecast for 2007 to 5.4-5.5 percent from 5.6 percent because of the persistent high oil prices and weak investments – two major risks to economic growth.
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257 pass nutritionist-dietitian licensure exam
ARCHITECT LICENSURE EXAMINATION
Complete list of new therapists
List of new optometrists
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The western sections of northern and central Luzon will experience occasional monsoon rains and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. The rest of western Luzon and Palawan will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
Manila Bay will be slight to moderate.
Sunrise 5:40 am
Sunset 6:25 pm
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