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The huge fire that gutted the warehouse of the Cebu International Port (CPA) last July 31 where an estimated P100 million worth of government and private property went up in smoke was ruled as "accidental" by a task force of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). It was caused by faulty electrical wiring, according to a SunStar report last Wednesday. 

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At the sidelines of the 4th Annual Philippine Business Outlook Conference sponsored by the Knowledge Institute yesterday, Energy Secretary Vincent Perez said Kepco and Trans-Asia, a 50-50 joint venture between Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. and Union Cement Corp., have expresed their respective intentions to set up new power facilities in the country.
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The fishermen, who have organized themselves into the Paraoir Fisherfolk Association, are beneficiaries of a livelihood project launched by a multiagency committee in September last year.

Several agencies and the private sector supported the project. The Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University-Fisheries Research Technology Institute provided technology, manpower and the hatchery site.
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In its tender offer report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), AEV said it does not have any plan to delist WG&A shares nor does it plan to do any act that would result to its being exempted from the reportorial requirements of the Securities Regulations Code.
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The sale would allow Swiss firm Holcim, the world’s number two cement group, to consolidate its Philippine interests. Holcim has stakes in Union Cement and holds indirect and direct stakes in Alsons.

Alsons’ board also agreed to the plan to delist the firm’s shares from the Philippine Stock Exchange after the acquisition, the company said in a statement to the exchange.
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Holderbank Financiere Glaris, which has a 40-percent stake in ACC and controls 40 percent of UCC, wants to have management control in the merged entity.

However, the Phinma group, which controls 60 percent of UCC and currently manages the cement firm, wants to continue managing UCC even after the merger.
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The huge fire that gutted the warehouse of the Cebu International Port (CPA) last July 31 where an estimated P100 million worth of government and private property went up in smoke was ruled as "accidental" by a task force of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). It was caused by faulty electrical wiring, according to a SunStar report last Wednesday. 

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The fishermen, who have organized themselves into the Paraoir Fisherfolk Association, are beneficiaries of a livelihood project launched by a multiagency committee in September last year.

Several agencies and the private sector supported the project. The Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University-Fisheries Research Technology Institute provided technology, manpower and the hatchery site.
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In its tender offer report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), AEV said it does not have any plan to delist WG&A shares nor does it plan to do any act that would result to its being exempted from the reportorial requirements of the Securities Regulations Code.
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The sale would allow Swiss firm Holcim, the world’s number two cement group, to consolidate its Philippine interests. Holcim has stakes in Union Cement and holds indirect and direct stakes in Alsons.

Alsons’ board also agreed to the plan to delist the firm’s shares from the Philippine Stock Exchange after the acquisition, the company said in a statement to the exchange.
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Holderbank Financiere Glaris, which has a 40-percent stake in ACC and controls 40 percent of UCC, wants to have management control in the merged entity.

However, the Phinma group, which controls 60 percent of UCC and currently manages the cement firm, wants to continue managing UCC even after the merger.
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