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Arroyo says Senate should explain alleged insertions in 2019 budget

January 30, 2019

Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Wednesday the Senate should explain its “insertions” under the proposed 2019 P3.757-trillion national budget. Arroyo made this statement even as Senate President Vicente  Sotto III told for Senator Loren Legarda, chairperson of the committee on finance, to withdraw the Senate

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Saudi Arabia welcomes Arroyo initiative to invest in new Bangsamoro Region

January 30, 2019

Officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had welcomed the initiative of former President and now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to invite Saudi Arabian businessmen to invest in Mindanao in the light of the passage and ratification of the

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Rehabilitation of Manila Bay cannot be postponed: DILG

January 30, 2019

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) lamented the Makabayan Bloc’s call for the government to postpone the Manila Bay Rehabilitation program to pave the way for more “study and consultations.”    “We wish to emphasize that Manila Bay

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NDF peace consultant shot dead inside bus in Nueva Vizcaya

January 30, 2019

BAGUIO CITY  —  A lone gunman shot National Democratic Front (NDF) peace panel consultant Randy Malayao dead inside a bus found for Isabela on Wednesday, police said. Malayao, 49, was sleeping inside a Victory bus while it was parked at

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Diokno confident huge infrastructure projects to be exempted from poll ban

January 30, 2019

Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno expressed confidence on Wednesday that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will grant the request to exempt from the election ban the implementation of the big-ticket infrastructure projects for this year. Under the law, the Comelec will

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Palace says successive bombings in Jolo, Zamboanga depict “godlessness” of mass murderers

January 30, 2019

Malacanang said on Wednesday successive attacks in two places of worship, the latest of which was at the mosque in Zamboanga City, show the “godlessness” of the perpetrators. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo acknowledged that the latest explosions

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Two killed as grenade thrown inside mosque in Zamboanga City

January 30, 2019

Two people were killed while four were wounded in a grenade explosion in a mosque in Zamboanga City on Wednesday. Col. Gerry Besana, Armed Forces of the Philippine (AFP) Western Mindanao Command spokesman, said a grenade was thrown by an

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Makati cops arrest ‘French Spiderman’ for climbing 45th floor of building

January 29, 2019

Police arrested a 56-year-old French national who tried to climb a building  in Ayala Avenue Tuesday morning. In a report, Makati police arrested  Alain Robert Philippe after bystanders reported seeing him climbing the 45th floor of GT Tower at 10:15

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