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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 05:49:00 12/16/2008 Filed Under: Overseas Employment Migrant workers' groups criticized the government's aggressive labor marketing of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) amid the global financial crisis,...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
Philippines-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will return to the country before dawn Tuesday from Qatar, where she secured a $1-billion investment in telecommunications, Malacañang said. The President and her party left Doha at 12 noon local time (5...
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News Source: GMA News
| 11 months ago
The government admitted Monday to the need to show progress in its fight against corruption if it is to secure a multi-million dollar grant from the United States. But even if the administration tallies results, it has to wait for a World Bank...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 11 months ago
With estimated 37,000 job vacancies for overseas workers, Qatar is considered by the Philippine authority as an ideal alternative to anxious Filipinos who see slim job opportunities in the contracted world labor market next year due to the economic...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has "no choice" on the mode by which the 1987 Constitution would be amended and would leave the decision to Congress, her spokesman said Monday. "Wala hong choice ang Presidente, dahil hindi na siya nakikialam, dahil...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
Malacañang has vowed to step up its anti-corruption drive despite failing to secure a large-scale grant from the United States Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), which has been hinged on how effective a government was in fighting corruption.
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
Over 400 people lost their homes in a pre-dawn fire in a residential district in Makati City Monday, a fire official said. In a phone interview, Senior Fire Officer 1 Jerson Moncada of the Makati City fire department, said fire broke out along Villar...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
Senator Manuel "Mar" Roxas has refused to apologize for cursing at an anti-Charter change rally, saying he was just expressing the sentiment of the people. "Sabihin ko lang huwag na silang maghantay [ng public apology] at hindi darating," he told "...
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News Source: GMA News
| 11 months ago
A resident was hurt while 400 others face a homeless Christmas after a fire believed caused by a tipped-over candle razed a squatters' colony in Makati City before dawn Monday. Radio dzBB's Louie Garcia reported that the fire started at the house of...
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News Source: Positive News Media
| 11 months ago
More than the noise and political rabble-rousing in the streets, Speaker Prospero Nograles said the House of Representatives, being the "House of the People," would rather get the pulse of local government units (LGUs) nationwide in its continuing...