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sets debate on Veterans BillBy FRED G. GABOT, CLAIRE M. TRUE and JOSEPH G. LARIOSA
Special to Pinoy Today
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON D.C. (PinoyNews/Phil-AmPress/JGLi) – Philippine leaders who are visiting the United States are appealing for the approval by the US Congress of the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill that will finally give the appropriate benefits to Filipinos who fought with the Americans during World War II.
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Saludo nominated as new CSC Chair
MANILA — Malacanang announced the nomination of Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo as chairman of the Civil Service Commission (CCS).
The chairmanship was left vacant after the term of its former head Karina David, expired early this year.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced Saludo's nomination upon his arrival at the Bahay Pangarap at the Presidential Security Group compound in Manila where a lunch was held
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GMA launches construction of 88-km,
P11.6 B Tarlac-La Union expressway
By CLAIRE M. TRUE and JO ERLINDA G. NEBRES
Special to PinoyNews.
TARLAC CITY (PinoyNews) — An expressway from Manila all the way to La Union?
Yes, Virginia, this will soon be a reality. And once completed, travel to La Union from Manila will be shorted from six hours to three hours only.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led on April 21 the groundbreaking and the lowering of the time capsule under the ground signaling the start of the construction of the P11.6 billion Tarlac-La Union Toll Expressway (TLUTE), another priority project of the administration
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SC junks Lucio Tan-AEDC appeal on NAIA terminal 3
MANILA— Voting 7-4, the Supreme Court (SC) has junked the appeal of Asia's Emerging Dragon Corporation (AEDC) identified with taipan Lucio Tan for the government to award the controversial Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal-3 (NAIA-3) to the company, citing that rights or privileges of an original proponent of an unsolicited project “are never meant
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Another Army general faces court martial
By FRANCO G. REGALA
Military and Police Correspondent
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City (PinoyNews) – A ranking Army general and a non-commissioned officer have been recommended for court martial on corruption charges
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ASEAN LAMPPOST SCANDAL
Mayor, ex-mayor, 19 Cebu
officials face graft raps
QUEZON CITY - Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez has approved the filing of graft charges against an incumbent mayor in Cebu, a former city mayor and 19 other local government officials for the overpricing of lamppost by at least P60 million.
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Esperon maintains innocence on the ‘Hello Garci' tape
CAMP AGUINALDO – For the nth time, outgoing Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes C. Esperon Jr. has maintained his innocence over charges in the so-called hello Garci tape during the 2004 presidential elections.
Esperon made the statement during
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Labor Day is non-working day
MANILA — May 1, Labor Day, is a non-working day.
But not for members of the Regional Wage Boards (RWBs), not this year at least.
Underscoring the need for “setting up new
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Peso closes 41.93
MANILA – The Philippine peso turned-around Wednesday after closing at 41.93 against the greenback from Tuesday's 41.94 finish.
At the Philippine
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10 OFWs repatriated
by Villar from Jordan
PASAY CITY (PinoyNews) - Five more distressed female overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Abu Dhabi who have been awaiting repatriation will finally be able to come home.
This brings to 15 the number of OFWs Senate President Manny Villar helped send home this month by sponsoring their airfares back to the country
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