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                    [Title] => As duly elected Vice mayor of Babatngon, Leyte Comelec en banc orders proclamation of Menzon
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Almost two years since the May 2013 elections, the Comelec en banc last January 20 affirmed the resolution of its Second Division, under SPA 13-232, ordering the proclamation of Winston B. Menzon as the duly elected vice mayor of Babatngon town in Leyte.

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[DatePublished] => 2004-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259264 [Title] => The prime of Dinky Soliman [Summary] => This might be the prime of Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, the Cabinet Secretary closest to the President who almost lost her job but got it back before her replacement took over. The Social Welfare and Development head has been in the news recently – because her post was supposed to have been given to Vice-President Noli de Castro, and because she was shown on television shouting like hell at media persons who had created pandemonium around Angelo de Castro at his homecoming in Pampanga that they could have killed him at his doorstep.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220933 [Title] => Third in corruption, first in cynicism [Summary] => Editorial writers and columnists will surely go to town once again on the announcement by a group called Transparency International that the Philippines is the third "most corrupt" country in Asia and the 11th "most corrupt" in the world, drawn from a list of 113 corrupt countries worldwide.

The cynics and wags are already saying, "At least we excel at something!"
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 91031 [Title] => Palace: Crime rate down [Summary] => Despite the recent occurrence of some high-profile crimes, Malacañang reported yesterday that the crime rate over the past five months went down by 10 percent compared to the same period last year.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) report was released as President Arroyo created a Cabinet Oversight Committee (COC) on internal security that will handle matters related to the various insurgency movements in the country.

Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao, citing a report by the PNP, said index crimes from January to May this year dropped by 10 percent.
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Two non-government organizations (NGOs) urged President Estrada Friday to ban commercial fishing in Manila Bay due to high levels of water pollution.

In a press conference, the NGOs for Fisheries (NFR) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC)-Fisherfolk Council said that commercial fishing in the entire Manila Bay area should be banned since the bay has already reached an alarming "level of fish productivity plus a high level of pollution causing massive and dangerous levels of degradation of its marine habitat."

Bonifacio Federizo, council commissioner of NAPC and Rio [DatePublished] => 2000-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87750 [Title] => So far, Estrada gov't able to 'slightly' reduce poverty incidence -official [Summary] =>

The Estrada administration, less than two years old, has so far been able to "slightly" reduce the incidence of poverty, and the chief of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) is asking Malacañang to hasten the release of funds to keep the poverty alleviation program going.

NAPC chief Donna Gasgonia estimates there are now 4.4 million Filipino families - or 23 million individuals (based on an average of five children per family) - living below the poverty line. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94848 [Title] => P2.3 B for `dead' nuke plant scored [Summary] =>

What costs P6 million a day yet doesn't work?

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), which has not produced a single watt of electricity since its construction during the Marcos dictatorship.

A minority congressman revealed that Congress is again allotting P2.3 billion this year to pay for the mothballed facility.

Surigao Rep. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461198 [AuthorName] => Liberty Dones [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION
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                    [Title] => As duly elected Vice mayor of Babatngon, Leyte Comelec en banc orders proclamation of Menzon
                    [Summary] => 

Almost two years since the May 2013 elections, the Comelec en banc last January 20 affirmed the resolution of its Second Division, under SPA 13-232, ordering the proclamation of Winston B. Menzon as the duly elected vice mayor of Babatngon town in Leyte.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1301846 [AuthorName] => Eileen Nazareno Ballesteros [SectionName] => Freeman Region [SectionUrl] => region [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 45162 [Title] => Aetas get malunggay seminar [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262306 [Title] => Watch the regulators more than the Cabinet [Summary] => Critics of the new Cabinet appointees are either loud speakers of the coveters who didn’t get the portfolios, or they’re just plain loud mouths.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259264 [Title] => The prime of Dinky Soliman [Summary] => This might be the prime of Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, the Cabinet Secretary closest to the President who almost lost her job but got it back before her replacement took over. The Social Welfare and Development head has been in the news recently – because her post was supposed to have been given to Vice-President Noli de Castro, and because she was shown on television shouting like hell at media persons who had created pandemonium around Angelo de Castro at his homecoming in Pampanga that they could have killed him at his doorstep.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220933 [Title] => Third in corruption, first in cynicism [Summary] => Editorial writers and columnists will surely go to town once again on the announcement by a group called Transparency International that the Philippines is the third "most corrupt" country in Asia and the 11th "most corrupt" in the world, drawn from a list of 113 corrupt countries worldwide.

The cynics and wags are already saying, "At least we excel at something!"
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 91031 [Title] => Palace: Crime rate down [Summary] => Despite the recent occurrence of some high-profile crimes, Malacañang reported yesterday that the crime rate over the past five months went down by 10 percent compared to the same period last year.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) report was released as President Arroyo created a Cabinet Oversight Committee (COC) on internal security that will handle matters related to the various insurgency movements in the country.

Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao, citing a report by the PNP, said index crimes from January to May this year dropped by 10 percent.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88005 [Title] => NGOs push ban on bay fishing [Summary] =>

Two non-government organizations (NGOs) urged President Estrada Friday to ban commercial fishing in Manila Bay due to high levels of water pollution.

In a press conference, the NGOs for Fisheries (NFR) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC)-Fisherfolk Council said that commercial fishing in the entire Manila Bay area should be banned since the bay has already reached an alarming "level of fish productivity plus a high level of pollution causing massive and dangerous levels of degradation of its marine habitat."

Bonifacio Federizo, council commissioner of NAPC and Rio [DatePublished] => 2000-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87750 [Title] => So far, Estrada gov't able to 'slightly' reduce poverty incidence -official [Summary] =>

The Estrada administration, less than two years old, has so far been able to "slightly" reduce the incidence of poverty, and the chief of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) is asking Malacañang to hasten the release of funds to keep the poverty alleviation program going.

NAPC chief Donna Gasgonia estimates there are now 4.4 million Filipino families - or 23 million individuals (based on an average of five children per family) - living below the poverty line. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94848 [Title] => P2.3 B for `dead' nuke plant scored [Summary] =>

What costs P6 million a day yet doesn't work?

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), which has not produced a single watt of electricity since its construction during the Marcos dictatorship.

A minority congressman revealed that Congress is again allotting P2.3 billion this year to pay for the mothballed facility.

Surigao Rep. [DatePublished] => 2000-01-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461198 [AuthorName] => Liberty Dones [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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February 17, 2008 - 12:00am
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