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                    [Summary] => Like all other lawyers in this country, I have to become a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) when it was created by the Rules of Court as the official organization of all companeros and companeras.
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                    [Title] => Perez hails OPEC move to hike output
                    [Summary] => Energy Secretary Vincent S. Perez welcomed yesterday recent decision of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to pump an additional one million barrels of crude oil per day (b/d). 


"The increase in production volume is a welcome relief for us. This could eventually bring world prices back to a more comfortable level," Perez said. 


In a meeting last Wednesday in Vienna, OPEC agreed to raise to 27 million b/d the production level beginning November this year to stem rising prices. 


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                    [Title] => Cut bureaucracy fat before taxing more
                    [Summary] => There will be zero credibility and support for President Arroyo’s call for sacrifices and higher taxes unless it becomes obvious there is a sincere and effective effort to cut fat in the bureaucracy. Previous efforts to streamline the bureaucracy have been failures because politicians lacked the sincerity and determination to see the effort through. People refuse to abandon the mistaken notion that government is the employer of last resort. 


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                    [Title] => Malampaya sale must be more transparent
                    [Summary] => When the Koreans announced in Singapore last week that they are "the preferred bidder" for the 4.9- percent interest of PNOC-EC in the Malampaya Natural Gas project, it was clear they were sure they had the inside track. I wondered what made them sound so sure they had it in the bag. 


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                    [Title] => Gov’t sees light on power sector reforms, says foundation head
                    [Summary] => "We commend the Arroyo administration for finally seeing the light and is now advocating many of the energy reforms we have been seeking since last year," said Antonio G. Hombrebueno, chairman of the Foundation for National Development (FND), over the weekend.


Hombrebueno cited recent key policy pronouncements of Energy Secretary Vicent Perez, notably on rushing the privatization of the Nation Power Corp. (Napocor) and on finally admitting that the power sector’s problem is lack of investments due to the policy of maintaining artificially low power rates.


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                    [Title] => Energy sector wars
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo’s dynamic duo – Energy Secretary Vincent Perez Jr. and National Transmission Corp. president and CEO Dr. Alan Ortiz, Ph.D. – just wound up a three-month continuing dialogue with major business groups all over the country  which brought them to almost 30 cities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.


 At the outset, the energy group’s primary goal was simply to inform businessmen about the Arroyo government’s 10-year however, turned out to be one major crusade against what Dr. Ortiz terms "a creeping culture of pessimism".


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                    [Title] => Senate to summon Perez on Impsa
                    [Summary] => A Senate committee looking into the controversial $450-million power plant rehabilitation contract awarded to Argentine power firm Impsa (Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona Sociedad Anonima) decided yesterday to invite resigned justice secretary Hernando Perez to its next hearing.


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                    [Title] => DOJ hit for clearing Nani on Impsa opinion
                    [Summary] => Senators criticized Justice Secretary Simeon Datumanong yesterday for saying that his predecessor, Hernando Perez, was not criminally liable for rendering a legal opinion on the controversial government deal with the Argentine firm Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona Sociedad Anonima (Impsa).


Senate President Franklin Drilon and Sen. John Osmeña, chairman of the Senate committee on government corporations and public enterprises that is currently investigating the Impsa project, said Datumanong’s statement clearing Perez was uncalled for.


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                    [Title] => Malacañang scouting for Nani’s successor?
                    [Summary] => Malacañang said yesterday beleaguered Justice Secretary Hernando Perez will still have a job waiting for him when he comes back this week from a month-long medical leave.


But highly reliable sources told The STAR that Palace officials are already looking for a replacement for Perez and have offered his job to at least two people.


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                    [Title] => MJ’s house of cards now falling, says Perez’s lawyer
                    [Summary] => Lawyers of Justice Secretary on-leave Hernando Perez claimed yesterday that Manila Rep. Mark Jimenez was now becoming desperate in making all kinds of accusations to delay his extradition to the United States.


"His (Jimenez’s) house of cards is now falling, Mr. Jimenez is now clutching at straws and himself throwing all sorts of accusations without proof of evidence at Secretary Perez," said lawyer Agnes Devanadera, spokeswoman for the 12-member legal panel defending Perez.


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SECRETARY PEREZ

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"The increase in production volume is a welcome relief for us. This could eventually bring world prices back to a more comfortable level," Perez said. 


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Hombrebueno cited recent key policy pronouncements of Energy Secretary Vicent Perez, notably on rushing the privatization of the Nation Power Corp. (Napocor) and on finally admitting that the power sector’s problem is lack of investments due to the policy of maintaining artificially low power rates.


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Senate President Franklin Drilon and Sen. John Osmeña, chairman of the Senate committee on government corporations and public enterprises that is currently investigating the Impsa project, said Datumanong’s statement clearing Perez was uncalled for.


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"His (Jimenez’s) house of cards is now falling, Mr. Jimenez is now clutching at straws and himself throwing all sorts of accusations without proof of evidence at Secretary Perez," said lawyer Agnes Devanadera, spokeswoman for the 12-member legal panel defending Perez.


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