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                    [Title] => DTI wants to give up lead role in NSC body
                    [Summary] => The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) wants to step-down from its lead role in the National Steel Corp. (NSC) evaluation committee and let the main NSC stakeholders assume the lead  in the evaluation  process.


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                    [Title] => Allengoal ready to join NSC bidding
                    [Summary] => Allengoal Steel Fabrication & Trading Co. is ready to join the rebidding for the right to operate the mothballed National Steel Corp. (NPC).


Allengoal president Alexander S. Delmo, in a letter sent yesterday to NSC liquidator Danilo Concepcion, indicated that Allengoal will participate in the Oct. 23 bidding on the condition that the evaluation committee issues a clarification on the terms of reference of the bidding.


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                    [Title] => Hottick bats for inclusion of  Allengoal in new NSC bidding
                    [Summary] => Hottick Investment Ltd. continues to push for the inclusion of Allengoal Steel Fabrication and Trading in the new bidding for National Steel Corp. (NSC) being scheduled by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).


In a letter to Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II, who heads the evaluation committee which will review the bids, Hottick insisted that Allengoal "be invited to participate again in this process to preclude potential roadblocks ahead."


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                    [Title] => Hottick opts to remain in evaluation committee for rehabilitation of NSC
                    [Summary] => Hottick Investment Ltd.,  National Steel Corp.’s majority shareholder,  will remain with the NSC evaluation committee, paving the way for  the  rehabilitation of the NSC plant in Iligan, Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II disclosed yesterday. 


Earlier, Hottick announced that it was dropping out of its earlier commitment to enter into a common evaluation process with the government.


Roxas said he received formal word from Danaharta, the Malaysian debt rehabilitation agency, that Hottick is not leaving  the evaluation committee.


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                    [ArticleID] => 135007
                    [Title] => Roxas claims on NSC debunked
                    [Summary] => National Steel Labor Union-FFW (NASLU-FFW) president Simplicio H. Villarta, Jr. lashed out yesterday at Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II for saying that the NSC plant cannot operate within the year.


"We know whereof we speak," Villarta said, as he dared Roxas to endorse their lease program today.


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                    [ArticleID] => 134381
                    [Title] => Allengoal scores Roxas over NSC lease agreement
                    [Summary] => Allengoal Steel  is accusing Trade and Industry  Secretary Manuel Roxas II of trying   to thwart the  lease agreement  which could rehabilitate the ailing National Steel Corp. (NSC).


Allengoal Steel, which claims to have submitted the best offer to run NSC, said  that Roxas  is trying to "thwart the lease agreement that could restore life to the NSC plant in the shortest time possible and under the best operation and financing terms."


Roxas, however, said yesterday that the  opening of proposals or bids to rehabilitate the NSC will continue today.


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                    [Title] => Lease of NSC facilities to proceed despite Hottick
                    [Summary] => Government is going to pursue the negotiations for leasing out the facilities of National Steel Corp. despite the decision of Hottick Investment Ltd. to pull out of the evaluation team headed by the Malaysian government.


Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II who is returning from Japan this week, said he would immediately call a meeting of the committee to discuss Hottick’s unilateral decision to pull out of the committee working for the reopening of the steel company.


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                    [Title] => NSC, Allengoal ink lease pact
                    [Summary] => National Steel Corp. (NSC) has signed a lease agreement with Allengoal, a landmark development that might finally allow the defunct company to reopen its Iligan plant and resume operations.


With the signing of the agreement, the Malaysian-owned company, Hottick Investment Ltd. has pulled out of the evaluation committee created to study proposals for the Interim lease for NSC and said it has approved the lease agreement between NSC and Allengoal.


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                    [Title] => Groups enter pact to hasten NSC rehab
                    [Summary] => A formal agreement has finally been reached among all parties  concerned with the  National Steel Corp. (NSC) to enter into a "common evaluation process " to speed up the rehabilitation of the steel firm, Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas II said yesterday.


Following a meeting last Friday among representatives of major creditors/stakeholders of NSC, Roxas said an evaluation committee was created which would draw up proposals from strategic investors interested in operating the Iligan facilities of NSC.


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                    [Title] => SEC can’t order NSC liquidation — Hottick
                    [Summary] => The Malaysian majority-shareholder of the cash-strapped National Steel Corp. has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to nullify its order for the liquidation of the company, saying the SEC has no authority to issue such an order.


Hottick Investment Ltd., which owns over 82 percent of the biggest steel firm in the Philippines, said the authority to dissolve and liquidate a corporation has always been exercised by the regional trial courts.


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HOTTICK INVESTMENT LTD

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                    [Title] => DTI wants to give up lead role in NSC body
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                    [Title] => Allengoal ready to join NSC bidding
                    [Summary] => Allengoal Steel Fabrication & Trading Co. is ready to join the rebidding for the right to operate the mothballed National Steel Corp. (NPC).


Allengoal president Alexander S. Delmo, in a letter sent yesterday to NSC liquidator Danilo Concepcion, indicated that Allengoal will participate in the Oct. 23 bidding on the condition that the evaluation committee issues a clarification on the terms of reference of the bidding.


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                    [Title] => Hottick bats for inclusion of  Allengoal in new NSC bidding
                    [Summary] => Hottick Investment Ltd. continues to push for the inclusion of Allengoal Steel Fabrication and Trading in the new bidding for National Steel Corp. (NSC) being scheduled by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).


In a letter to Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II, who heads the evaluation committee which will review the bids, Hottick insisted that Allengoal "be invited to participate again in this process to preclude potential roadblocks ahead."


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                    [Title] => Hottick opts to remain in evaluation committee for rehabilitation of NSC
                    [Summary] => Hottick Investment Ltd.,  National Steel Corp.’s majority shareholder,  will remain with the NSC evaluation committee, paving the way for  the  rehabilitation of the NSC plant in Iligan, Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II disclosed yesterday. 


Earlier, Hottick announced that it was dropping out of its earlier commitment to enter into a common evaluation process with the government.


Roxas said he received formal word from Danaharta, the Malaysian debt rehabilitation agency, that Hottick is not leaving  the evaluation committee.


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                    [Title] => Roxas claims on NSC debunked
                    [Summary] => National Steel Labor Union-FFW (NASLU-FFW) president Simplicio H. Villarta, Jr. lashed out yesterday at Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II for saying that the NSC plant cannot operate within the year.


"We know whereof we speak," Villarta said, as he dared Roxas to endorse their lease program today.


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                    [Title] => Allengoal scores Roxas over NSC lease agreement
                    [Summary] => Allengoal Steel  is accusing Trade and Industry  Secretary Manuel Roxas II of trying   to thwart the  lease agreement  which could rehabilitate the ailing National Steel Corp. (NSC).


Allengoal Steel, which claims to have submitted the best offer to run NSC, said  that Roxas  is trying to "thwart the lease agreement that could restore life to the NSC plant in the shortest time possible and under the best operation and financing terms."


Roxas, however, said yesterday that the  opening of proposals or bids to rehabilitate the NSC will continue today.


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                    [Title] => Lease of NSC facilities to proceed despite Hottick
                    [Summary] => Government is going to pursue the negotiations for leasing out the facilities of National Steel Corp. despite the decision of Hottick Investment Ltd. to pull out of the evaluation team headed by the Malaysian government.


Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II who is returning from Japan this week, said he would immediately call a meeting of the committee to discuss Hottick’s unilateral decision to pull out of the committee working for the reopening of the steel company.


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                    [Title] => NSC, Allengoal ink lease pact
                    [Summary] => National Steel Corp. (NSC) has signed a lease agreement with Allengoal, a landmark development that might finally allow the defunct company to reopen its Iligan plant and resume operations.


With the signing of the agreement, the Malaysian-owned company, Hottick Investment Ltd. has pulled out of the evaluation committee created to study proposals for the Interim lease for NSC and said it has approved the lease agreement between NSC and Allengoal.


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                    [Title] => Groups enter pact to hasten NSC rehab
                    [Summary] => A formal agreement has finally been reached among all parties  concerned with the  National Steel Corp. (NSC) to enter into a "common evaluation process " to speed up the rehabilitation of the steel firm, Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas II said yesterday.


Following a meeting last Friday among representatives of major creditors/stakeholders of NSC, Roxas said an evaluation committee was created which would draw up proposals from strategic investors interested in operating the Iligan facilities of NSC.


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                    [Title] => SEC can’t order NSC liquidation — Hottick
                    [Summary] => The Malaysian majority-shareholder of the cash-strapped National Steel Corp. has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to nullify its order for the liquidation of the company, saying the SEC has no authority to issue such an order.


Hottick Investment Ltd., which owns over 82 percent of the biggest steel firm in the Philippines, said the authority to dissolve and liquidate a corporation has always been exercised by the regional trial courts.


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