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                    [ArticleID] => 439962
                    [Title] => Jerome Paras not involved in road bidding anomalies
                    [Summary] => 

MANILA, Philippines - I take exception to the news item appearing on the front page of the February 5, 2009 issue of The Philippine STAR naming former Negros Oriental Rep. Jerome Paras as one of the two former Congressmen mentioned in a World Bank report involved in alleged anomalies in the bidding of World Bank funded projects.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271761 [Title] => Governor wants BOI to force JG Summit to locate its petrochem project in Bataan [Summary] => Former Congressman and now Governor of Bataan Enrique Garcia is opposing the recent decision of the Board of Investments (BOI) to approve the planned location of JG Summit Petrochemical Corp.’s (JGSPC) naphtha cracker plant in Batangas.

Garcia said that the first proposed naphtha cracker project, by then proponent, Luzon Petrochemical Corp. (LPC), was supposed to be built in Bataan.

The BOI had approved the project and gave the necessary incentives way back in 1988.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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