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                    [Title] => Ex-COA auditor lalakad ng hubad 'pag naabswelto si Garcia
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Handang lumakad ng hubad mula Sandiganbayan hanggang Welcome Rotonda sa Quezon City ang dating auditor ng Commission on Audit kapag nadismis ang kaso laban kay ex-AFP comptroller General Carlos Garcia.

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The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), however, have not yet agreed to a Christmas season ceasefire but have said they are merely "studying the possibility" of such a truce.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262068 [Title] => Palace to critics of new Cabinet: Don’t be like crabs [Summary] => Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye warned government officials yesterday to refrain from acting like crabs that "claw at each other" in the wake of criticisms against President Arroyo’s new Cabinet members.

Bunye himself is among those newly appointed officials whose names were announced Wednesday night in Cebu. He concurrently holds the post of press secretary.

"The (new Cabinet team) will deliver if given the chance. Let us give each other a fair opportunity rather than claw at each other like crabs," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 261573 [Title] => Troops hunt down 2 likely successors of Pentagon chief [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — The Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID) fielded over a hundred intelligence agents in neighboring Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao provinces yesterday to track down two likely successors of slain Pentagon kidnap gang leader Tahir Alonto.

These followers of Alonto — Samad Pandita and Mayangkang Saguile — each carry a P1-million bounty for their capture.

Meanwhile, defense and military officials are coordinating with the families of the slain gangmen to ascertain that Alonto was indeed one of those killed in the airstrikes.
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Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced yesterday that the government will extend the SOMO to pave the way for the release of 1Lt Ronaldo Fidelino and Pfc Ronnel Nemeno, who were captured in Camarines Sur last March.
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Nakilala ang mga nasawi na sina Anijah Daud, Rina Daud at tatlong bata na di natukoy ang pagkakakilanlan.

Sa ulat ng National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), ang insidente ay naganap dakong ala-1 ng madaling araw sa kahabaan ng Narciso Ramos highway sa Brgy. Linuk, Pualas ng nabanggit na lalawigan.

Nabatid na ang mga biktima ay mahimbing na natutulog nang bigla na lamang rumagasa ang tone-toneladang lupa at putik sa nasabing barangay na tumabon sa bahay ng mga biktima.

Ayon kay Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita, chairman ng NDCC, maging ang mga tauhan ng Philippine Institute of Volcanology ang Seismology ay nagsasagawa ngayon nang pag-aaral sa naging sanhi ng biglang pagguho ng lupa sa naturang lugar. [DatePublished] => 2004-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260953 [Title] => AFP gets P639-M share from BCDA [Summary] => The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) received yesterday P639 million in remittance from the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) for the use of former military camps by private businesses.

Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the modernization program of the AFP would directly benefit from non-sale proceeds — those that are not derived from the outright sale of military camps but from lease, rental and joint venture arrangements with private entities.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260450 [Title] => War evacuees suffer as MILF talks are stalled [Summary] => PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao (AFP) — A bright blue tent city sits beside the municipal hall here, silent witness to a decades-old civil war that has plagued the Muslim half of the southern Philippines.

Amirah Jaluddin and her three young children spend their days sitting outside a makeshift hut of planks and tarpaulin, 17 months after fighting between government forces and Moro rebels razed their house in nearby Pikit town.

"There is still trouble out there," the young Muslim mother told Agence France Presse.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260086 [Title] => NAIA awaits terrorist watch list [Summary] => While security checks have been tightened, airport authorities are in the dark as to the identities of potential terrorists entering the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

In an interview yesterday, retired Gen. Angel Atutubo, assistant manager for security of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), told The STAR that he had not received any "watch list" or advisory "either locally or from other countries" regarding specific terrorist threats.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258761 [Title] => Defense Department implements military reforms [Summary] => Barely three days before the first anniversary of the July 27 Oakwood mutiny, the Department of National Defense (DND) pushed for the implementation of seven "policy initiatives" aimed at improving fiscal and logistics management, soldiers’ welfare and values formation in the military.

Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the initiatives will address the grievances of the soldiers involved in the July 27, 2003, takeover of the Oakwood Premier condotel in Makati City.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Ex-COA auditor lalakad ng hubad 'pag naabswelto si Garcia
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Handang lumakad ng hubad mula Sandiganbayan hanggang Welcome Rotonda sa Quezon City ang dating auditor ng Commission on Audit kapag nadismis ang kaso laban kay ex-AFP comptroller General Carlos Garcia.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1188840 [AuthorName] => Butch Quejada/Malou Escudero/Gemma Garcia [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267277 [Title] => Permanent truce with NPA eyed [Summary] => The government expressed hopes yesterday that a unilateral Christmas ceasefire it has implemented with communist rebels could become a permanent truce.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), however, have not yet agreed to a Christmas season ceasefire but have said they are merely "studying the possibility" of such a truce.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262068 [Title] => Palace to critics of new Cabinet: Don’t be like crabs [Summary] => Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye warned government officials yesterday to refrain from acting like crabs that "claw at each other" in the wake of criticisms against President Arroyo’s new Cabinet members.

Bunye himself is among those newly appointed officials whose names were announced Wednesday night in Cebu. He concurrently holds the post of press secretary.

"The (new Cabinet team) will deliver if given the chance. Let us give each other a fair opportunity rather than claw at each other like crabs," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 261573 [Title] => Troops hunt down 2 likely successors of Pentagon chief [Summary] => CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao — The Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID) fielded over a hundred intelligence agents in neighboring Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao provinces yesterday to track down two likely successors of slain Pentagon kidnap gang leader Tahir Alonto.

These followers of Alonto — Samad Pandita and Mayangkang Saguile — each carry a P1-million bounty for their capture.

Meanwhile, defense and military officials are coordinating with the families of the slain gangmen to ascertain that Alonto was indeed one of those killed in the airstrikes.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 261576 [Title] => Field commanders to negotiate release of 2 soldiers [Summary] => Malacañang has designated military field commanders to negotiate the release of two soliders held hostage by the New People’s Army in the Bicol region following the suspension of military offensives (SOMO) in two Bicol provinces as earlier demanded by the communist rebels.

Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced yesterday that the government will extend the SOMO to pave the way for the release of 1Lt Ronaldo Fidelino and Pfc Ronnel Nemeno, who were captured in Camarines Sur last March.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 261138 [Title] => Pamilya, 5 nalibing sa landslide [Summary] => Nalibing ng buhay ang lima katao kabilang ang tatlong bata matapos na matabunan ng tone-toneladang lupa ang kanilang bahay sa naganap na landslide kamakalawa ng madaling-araw sa Lanao del Sur.

Nakilala ang mga nasawi na sina Anijah Daud, Rina Daud at tatlong bata na di natukoy ang pagkakakilanlan.

Sa ulat ng National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), ang insidente ay naganap dakong ala-1 ng madaling araw sa kahabaan ng Narciso Ramos highway sa Brgy. Linuk, Pualas ng nabanggit na lalawigan.

Nabatid na ang mga biktima ay mahimbing na natutulog nang bigla na lamang rumagasa ang tone-toneladang lupa at putik sa nasabing barangay na tumabon sa bahay ng mga biktima.

Ayon kay Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita, chairman ng NDCC, maging ang mga tauhan ng Philippine Institute of Volcanology ang Seismology ay nagsasagawa ngayon nang pag-aaral sa naging sanhi ng biglang pagguho ng lupa sa naturang lugar. [DatePublished] => 2004-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260953 [Title] => AFP gets P639-M share from BCDA [Summary] => The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) received yesterday P639 million in remittance from the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) for the use of former military camps by private businesses.

Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the modernization program of the AFP would directly benefit from non-sale proceeds — those that are not derived from the outright sale of military camps but from lease, rental and joint venture arrangements with private entities.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260450 [Title] => War evacuees suffer as MILF talks are stalled [Summary] => PAGALUNGAN, Maguindanao (AFP) — A bright blue tent city sits beside the municipal hall here, silent witness to a decades-old civil war that has plagued the Muslim half of the southern Philippines.

Amirah Jaluddin and her three young children spend their days sitting outside a makeshift hut of planks and tarpaulin, 17 months after fighting between government forces and Moro rebels razed their house in nearby Pikit town.

"There is still trouble out there," the young Muslim mother told Agence France Presse.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260086 [Title] => NAIA awaits terrorist watch list [Summary] => While security checks have been tightened, airport authorities are in the dark as to the identities of potential terrorists entering the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).

In an interview yesterday, retired Gen. Angel Atutubo, assistant manager for security of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), told The STAR that he had not received any "watch list" or advisory "either locally or from other countries" regarding specific terrorist threats.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258761 [Title] => Defense Department implements military reforms [Summary] => Barely three days before the first anniversary of the July 27 Oakwood mutiny, the Department of National Defense (DND) pushed for the implementation of seven "policy initiatives" aimed at improving fiscal and logistics management, soldiers’ welfare and values formation in the military.

Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the initiatives will address the grievances of the soldiers involved in the July 27, 2003, takeover of the Oakwood Premier condotel in Makati City.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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