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Does Speaker Jose de Venecia stand on solid ground in giving the Senate a 72-hour ultimatum to pass measures for the election of delegates to a Constitutional Convention?
Seen as an implied admission of Constituent-Assembly defeat, this breach of inter-chamber courtesy is viewed by critics as the House majority's desperate face-saving bid to salvage its tarnished image as a political institution.
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FILIPINO VIOLITO
Payla (right) tags Chinese Young Bo with a whistling right to the head during their Asian Game semifinal bout in the flyweight division last night in Doha, Qatar. Payla won to advance to the finals. (Albert Garcia)
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Payla to fight for boxing gold; RP has 3 silvers, 2 bronzes in Asiad
DOHA, Qatar — Flyweight Violito Payla stopped giant-killer Yang Bo of China in the third round Sunday to become the first Filipino to reach the boxing finals in the 15th Asian Games.
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TACLOBAN CITY — Two children were killed when they were pinned by fallen trees that were knocked down by typhoon "Seniang" that hit the islands of Leyte and Samar Saturday afternoon.
Tanauan (Leyte) Mayor Roque A. Tiu said one of the two fatalities was a girl in Barangay Cabuynan.
"Seniang" blew away roofs, uprooted trees, damaged agricultural crops and left thousands of residents homeless.
Local disaster officials identified the second fatality as April Felicin, 4, who was...
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BSP may redefine banks’ allowable dollar purchases
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is studying big banks’ proposal to base their dollar purchases based on capital adequacy ratio (CAR).
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Occidental Mindoro and the Calamian Group of islands will have stormy weather. The rest of Mindoro and Lubang island will experience rains and gusty winds.
Manila Bay will be moderate to rough.
Temperature range – 22.5 ºC – 24.8ºC
Tides — High: 1:17 a.m., 1.23 m.
Low: 10:14 a.m., -0.13 m.
Sunrise — 6:10 a.m. Sunset — 5:28 p.m.
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