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                    [Title] => Chinese envoy bids farewell to Congress, gets medal of achievement
                    [Summary] => The House conferrred the Congressional Medal of Achievement to outgoing Chinese envoy Zhao Jianhua.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-11-05 09:56:00
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                    [Title] => Mandela's UP degree, words to PNoy and other Filipino connections
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The country sympathizes with South Africa on the death of Nelson Mandela, a Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid icon.

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                    [Title] => Noy, Cabinet men to attend Robredo's funeral in Naga City
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President Aquino will attend the funeral of former Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo in Naga City on Tuesday, Malacañang confirmed yesterday.
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                    [Title] => Lea to bring daughter to 2nd Cebu concert
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"I am looking forward to my second concert in Cebu and this time I am bringing Nicole with me!" gushed world-renowned singer and multi-awarded stage actress Lea Salonga about her Valentine show at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel on Wednesday, Feb. 14. LEA IN LOVE ... WITH CEBU marks Lea's return engagement in this city after the highly successful sold-out first show in December 2005, during which she was still pregnant with her firstborn, Nicole Beverly.  


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                    [Title] => Order of Lakandula for Lea, climbers
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World-renowned singer and multi-awarded stage actress Lea Salonga was accorded yesterday by President Arroyo the highest presidential honor that may be bestowed upon a Filipino civilian: the Order of Lakandula.


Salonga was awarded the Order of Lakandula with rank of Commander (Komandante) for "her outstanding dedication in fostering mutual understanding, cultural exchange, justice and dignified relations among persons and nations," the citation reads.


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                    [Title] => Japanese prime minister cancels Cebu trip
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived last night, but will return to Tokyo tomorrow after the Philippines announced yesterday that the summit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders has been moved to January due to typhoon "Seniang."


Abe will attend the state dinner hosted by President Arroyo tonight in Malacañang and a ceremony earlier in the day in which Speaker Jose de Venecia will confer on him the Congressional Medal of Achievement for his moves to reconcile Japan with China and South Korea.


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                    [Title] => Soliven conferred 2 awards
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After posthumously receiving two awards for his contributions to journalism and the nation, the late STAR publisher and board chairman Maximo V. Soliven returned home to his North Greenhills, San Juan residence yesterday morning, accompanied by his family.


The urn containing Soliven’s ashes had been at the St. Ignatius Cathedral at Camp Aguinaldo for three days to allow throngs of his friends and avid readers to pay their last respects.


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                    [Title] => Soliven to receive congressional award
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The House of Representatives will confer the Congressional Medal of Achievement on The STAR’s late publisher and chairman of the board, Max Soliven.


Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said yesterday he would hand the award to Soliven’s family today or tomorrow.


"We are extolling him for being one of the greatest journalists produced not only by the Philippines but by Asia, and for being one of the greatest Filipinos of our time," he said.


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                    [Title] => JDV, Israeli Speaker agree on revival of Arab peace process
                    [Summary] => Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and visiting Speaker Dalia Itzik of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) agreed on Monday on the need to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process.


"We both agreed that the peace process be now reactivated," De Venecia said.


He and his Israeli counterpart expressed their views after he conferred on his visitor the Congressional Medal of Achievement, the highest decoration from the House of Representatives.


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                    [Title] => JDV proposes RP-US free trade pact
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Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. has proposed a Philippines-United States free trade agreement and a global anti-terrorism summit in separate meetings with a US senator and a group of American congressmen.


"We (the Philippines and the US) will have a free trade," De Venecia quoted Sen. Daniel Inouye as saying yesterday in ceremonies where the Speaker conferred upon the visiting official the Congressional Medal of Achievement, the highest decoration from his chamber.


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CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF ACHIEVEMENT

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                    [Title] => Mandela's UP degree, words to PNoy and other Filipino connections
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Salonga was awarded the Order of Lakandula with rank of Commander (Komandante) for "her outstanding dedication in fostering mutual understanding, cultural exchange, justice and dignified relations among persons and nations," the citation reads.


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                    [Title] => Japanese prime minister cancels Cebu trip
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived last night, but will return to Tokyo tomorrow after the Philippines announced yesterday that the summit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders has been moved to January due to typhoon "Seniang."


Abe will attend the state dinner hosted by President Arroyo tonight in Malacañang and a ceremony earlier in the day in which Speaker Jose de Venecia will confer on him the Congressional Medal of Achievement for his moves to reconcile Japan with China and South Korea.


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The urn containing Soliven’s ashes had been at the St. Ignatius Cathedral at Camp Aguinaldo for three days to allow throngs of his friends and avid readers to pay their last respects.


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The House of Representatives will confer the Congressional Medal of Achievement on The STAR’s late publisher and chairman of the board, Max Soliven.


Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said yesterday he would hand the award to Soliven’s family today or tomorrow.


"We are extolling him for being one of the greatest journalists produced not only by the Philippines but by Asia, and for being one of the greatest Filipinos of our time," he said.


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He and his Israeli counterpart expressed their views after he conferred on his visitor the Congressional Medal of Achievement, the highest decoration from the House of Representatives.


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"We (the Philippines and the US) will have a free trade," De Venecia quoted Sen. Daniel Inouye as saying yesterday in ceremonies where the Speaker conferred upon the visiting official the Congressional Medal of Achievement, the highest decoration from his chamber.


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