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News Source: Positive News Media
| 11 months ago
The pro-active approach of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in dealing with the global financial crisis and its repercussions on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has earned high praises from the regional representative of the United Nations-linked...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
National Counter-Terrorism Action Group], as we said already, since about two weeks ago...that we have to have very special focus on terrorist activities because during the holidays the terrorists might just take advantage and we don't want anything...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo made a flying visit to the troubled southern city of Iligan Friday, attending wakes and comforting the wounded a day after two shop bombings killed two people and injured 53. Arroyo made a swift tour of the wards of...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
Muslim rebel group fighting for a separate Islamic state in the southern region of Mindanao. Hostilities between the military and the rebel group flared in August when the guerrillas launched a series of deadly attacks after a setback in peace...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo visited Iligan City on Friday in the wake of bomb explosions at two shopping centers there that left two people killed and over a dozen others wounded. Upon her arrival, Arroyo met with local officials and military...
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News Source: Positive News Media
| 11 months ago
The overseas employment of Filipino workers remains steady and strong despite the worldwide economic meltdown. Thus stressed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a radio interview this morning (Dec. Thursday) over Bombo Radyo-General Santos City...
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News Source: BBC
| 11 months ago
Police have blamed "terrorists" for the bombs, and Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. Iligan is on the island of Mindanao, which has an active Muslim insurgency. There have been sporadic...
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News Source: GMA News
| 11 months ago
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Thursday said the tough measures that made herself unpopular are bearing fruit as shown in the steep drop in poverty rate. President Arroyo was referring to the seven-point reduction in self-rated poverty based on...
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News Source: GMA News
| 11 months ago
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s framed picture faced heavy beating from an angry overseas Filipino workers’ group on Thursday as its members threw shoes at it, in imitation an Arab journalist who threw his shoes in anger at US President...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 11 months ago
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo condemned the twin bombings in Iligan City on Thursday as she ordered security forces to run after the culprits, her spokesman said. "The President condemns the ruthless and violent acts of terrorism against our...