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Soon after hearing about his request for asylum from US authorities, a number of Filipinos may have asked, "is Jocjoc playing a joke on us or if not a joke, is Jocjoc Bolante making bola?" No pun intended here, honest.


Why would a very prominent official appointed by GMA to the Department of Agriculture and a very close friend of GMA's husband want to seek asylum?


He is hunted by the NPA, Mr. Bolante says. Is this a joke or Bola or is Joc Bolante really very serious and has evidence to prove his asylum plea?


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                    [Summary] => Today, allow me to greet with honor and blessing Engr. Gavino and Esther Unchuan on the occasion of their 65th wedding anniversary, which their children and grandchildren will be celebrating at the Cebu White Sands Resort in Maribago Beach in Mactan. In this day and age where people have already forgotten the sanctity of marriage, where marriages are for convenience rather than for creating families, rare do marriages last as long as the Unchuan couple have lasted. But even those that last, few are able to celebrate a union that lasts 65 years of wedded bliss!
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                    [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila
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                    [Title] => GMA bares P2-B ‘idle’ fund at LBP
                    [Summary] => Sometimes there are two billion reasons for a president to celebrate.


President Arroyo said yesterday the government has stumbled upon P2 billion lying "idle" at the Land  Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and said this will be used to implement the Agricultural and Fishery Modernization Act (AFMA).


The money is part of other unspecified amounts under the Public Law 480 loan for rice from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Fertilizer Funds.


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Why would a very prominent official appointed by GMA to the Department of Agriculture and a very close friend of GMA's husband want to seek asylum?


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The money is part of other unspecified amounts under the Public Law 480 loan for rice from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Fertilizer Funds.


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Bolante's joke?

By Cherry Piquero Ballescas | July 29, 2006 - 12:00am

Soon after hearing about his request for asylum from US authorities, a number of Filipinos may have asked, "is Jocjoc playing a joke on us or if not a joke, is Jocjoc Bolante making bola?" No pun intended...

Freeman Opinion

The use of foundations to abscond tax money?

By Bobit S. Avila | February 7, 2006 - 12:00am

Today, allow me to greet with honor and blessing Engr. Gavino and Esther Unchuan on the occasion of their 65th wedding anniversary, which their children and grandchildren will be celebrating at the Cebu White Sands...

Freeman Opinion

GMA bares P2-B ‘idle’ fund at LBP

By Marichu A. Villanueva | April 20, 2001 - 12:00am

Sometimes there are two billion reasons for a president to celebrate. President Arroyo said yesterday the government has stumbled upon P2 billion lying "idle" at the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP)...

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