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[Title] => Bleak Christmas, mass layoffs seen
[Summary] => A top business leader predicted a bleak Christmas for Filipinos this year and mass layoffs next year unless the present political crisis is resolved immediately.
Raul Concepcion, head of the Federation of Philippine Industries, told radio station dzRH yesterday his group was volunteering to avoid laying off workers until the end of the year, but said it could not prevent looming price adjustments.
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[Title] => UP prexy seeks custody of ex-Collegian editor caught in encounter withtroopers
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UP President Francisco Nemenzo has offered to take into his custody a former
editor of the state university's Philippine Collegian who was allegedly
wounded and captured by Army soldiers last Thursday after a gunbattle in Delin
Albano, Isabela.
Nemenzo told reporters he sent a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Orlando
Mercado, Secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND), to seek custody
of Kerima Tariman, 21, a Philippine studies student at the state university and
former managing editor of UP's official student publication.
"For now, my concern is to br
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[Title] => Overloaded ferry sinks; 56 killed, 100 missing
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At least 56 people were killed, 27 of them children, when a ferry bound for
Tawi-Tawi sank off Jolo, Sulu yesterday. The Navy is searching for over 100
others who are missing and feared dead.
The Coast Guard said local fishermen helped rescue at least 43 people, many of
whom were hospitalized.
Saying the accident "feels like deja vu," Defense Secretary Orlando
Mercado said initial reports point to overloading as the cause of the sinking.
"We don't have anything to indicate that there was an explosion," he said.
"There was no storm in the area.
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[Title] => Four re-electionist senators are top picks
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Four incumbent senators are the top favorites when they seek re-election in the
mid-term polls next year, a Social Weather Stations Inc.
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[Title] => Estrada laughs off dipping ratings
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"One step backward, two steps forward."
This was how President Estrada laughed off his plunging popularity ratings,
saying this was actually "a blessing in disguise. You will see who your friends
are when your ratings are down."
Yesterday, he was seen with Philippine Airlines chairman Lucio Tan in Laguna,
where the President led a ceremonial harvest of a new breed of rice named after
him.
"There is only one enemy now and that is poverty," the President said. "We are
doing everything in order to succeed in this fight."
"But I cannot win this alone.
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[Title] => MILF fears negotiators' safety
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ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has expressed fears
that their officials sitting with the government at the negotiating table might
be arrested in the absence of immunity guarantees.
Ustadz shariff Julabbi, MILF chairman for Western Mindanao and Palawan areas,
said the immunity guarantee which was adopted in the first round of formal
talks remained under study by higher government officials.
Julabbi said that the GRP panel led by Defense Undersecretary Orlando Soriano
has given assurances that the MILF delegates would be given identification
cards
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[Title] => VFA panel not taking Reds' threats lightly
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While expressing confidence in security measures for the upcoming military
exercises between Filipino and American troops, the Presidential Commission on
the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) said it is not taking lightly the threats
from communist rebels.
"(These threats) are potential problems," said Defense Secretary Orlando
Mercado, who co-chairs the commission with Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo
Siazon.
Left-wing activists and other groups opposed to the exercises have predicted
that the return of US troops will result in a resurgence of prostitution and
crimes by Ame
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DEFENSE SECRETARY ORLANDO
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Raul Concepcion, head of the Federation of Philippine Industries, told radio station dzRH yesterday his group was volunteering to avoid laying off workers until the end of the year, but said it could not prevent looming price adjustments.
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[Title] => UP prexy seeks custody of ex-Collegian editor caught in encounter withtroopers
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UP President Francisco Nemenzo has offered to take into his custody a former
editor of the state university's Philippine Collegian who was allegedly
wounded and captured by Army soldiers last Thursday after a gunbattle in Delin
Albano, Isabela.
Nemenzo told reporters he sent a letter Wednesday to Defense Secretary Orlando
Mercado, Secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND), to seek custody
of Kerima Tariman, 21, a Philippine studies student at the state university and
former managing editor of UP's official student publication.
"For now, my concern is to br
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[Title] => Overloaded ferry sinks; 56 killed, 100 missing
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At least 56 people were killed, 27 of them children, when a ferry bound for
Tawi-Tawi sank off Jolo, Sulu yesterday. The Navy is searching for over 100
others who are missing and feared dead.
The Coast Guard said local fishermen helped rescue at least 43 people, many of
whom were hospitalized.
Saying the accident "feels like deja vu," Defense Secretary Orlando
Mercado said initial reports point to overloading as the cause of the sinking.
"We don't have anything to indicate that there was an explosion," he said.
"There was no storm in the area.
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[Title] => Four re-electionist senators are top picks
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Four incumbent senators are the top favorites when they seek re-election in the
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"One step backward, two steps forward."
This was how President Estrada laughed off his plunging popularity ratings,
saying this was actually "a blessing in disguise. You will see who your friends
are when your ratings are down."
Yesterday, he was seen with Philippine Airlines chairman Lucio Tan in Laguna,
where the President led a ceremonial harvest of a new breed of rice named after
him.
"There is only one enemy now and that is poverty," the President said. "We are
doing everything in order to succeed in this fight."
"But I cannot win this alone.
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[Title] => MILF fears negotiators' safety
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ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has expressed fears
that their officials sitting with the government at the negotiating table might
be arrested in the absence of immunity guarantees.
Ustadz shariff Julabbi, MILF chairman for Western Mindanao and Palawan areas,
said the immunity guarantee which was adopted in the first round of formal
talks remained under study by higher government officials.
Julabbi said that the GRP panel led by Defense Undersecretary Orlando Soriano
has given assurances that the MILF delegates would be given identification
cards
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[Title] => VFA panel not taking Reds' threats lightly
[Summary] =>
While expressing confidence in security measures for the upcoming military
exercises between Filipino and American troops, the Presidential Commission on
the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) said it is not taking lightly the threats
from communist rebels.
"(These threats) are potential problems," said Defense Secretary Orlando
Mercado, who co-chairs the commission with Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo
Siazon.
Left-wing activists and other groups opposed to the exercises have predicted
that the return of US troops will result in a resurgence of prostitution and
crimes by Ame
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October 28, 2000 - 12:00am
