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To prevent the destruction of another typhoon  “Ondoy,” Antipolo City Mayor Nilo Leyble has teamed up with the private  sector to rehabilitate the 26,000-hectare Marikina Watershed.
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Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the debt-free local holding company of Hong Kong conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd., incurred a net loss of P685.9 million last year due mainly to provisions made at Metro Pacific Corp. and other investments. 


In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, MPIC said it made provisions of P415 million for its Costa de Madera property, P110.7 million for losses incurred in the divestment of shipping unit Negros Navigation Co., and various other write-offs totaling P160.2 million. 


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Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the newly-formed debt-free holding company of Metro Pacific Corp., will set aside at least P4 billion to fund investments in Maynilad Water Services Inc., Makati Medical Center and other real estate projects.


MPIC chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said the company has to shell out P3 billion to finance its bid for Maynilad and P500 million to improve the facilities of Makati Medical Center. Another P500 million will be used to bankroll the real estate development projects of Landco.


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Weighed down by the poor performance of its shipping unit, Metro Pacific Corp. incurred a net loss of P477.9 million in the first nine months of the year, a reversal of the P157.12 million profit reported in the same period in 2005.


Metro Pacific currently has only one operating business left in Negros Navigation  Co. (Nenaco) after it transferred its entire shareholding in Landco Pacific Corp. to the recently-incorporated debt-free investment holding company Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC).


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                    [Title] => Metro Pacific tender offer starts Oct 27
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Newly created investment holding company Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) said its planned tender offer to minority shareholders of Metro Pacific Corp. will run from Oct. 27 to Nov. 28, in line with the Metro Pacific group’s reorganization plan.


The tender offer will provide Metro Pacific’s minority shareholders with the option to migrate to the debt-free MPIC.


Based on its offer, MPIC will swap one MPIC share and three warrants for every four Metro Pacific shares tendered.


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The tender offer will provide Metro Pacific’s minority shareholders with the option to migrate to the debt-free MPIC.


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