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    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on October 31st, 2008 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    A senior British security official is to discuss with Philippine government officials and separatist rebel leaders on the peace process in the south, the British Embassy said on Friday. Robert Hanniga...

    Palace exec admits Bolante no longer covered by exec privilege

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    MANILA, Philippines - A ranking Malacañang official admitted Friday that former Agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn "Joc-Joc" Bolante cannot invoke executive privilege should the Senate decides ...

    Red Cross deploys medical volunteers, ambulances to cemeteries

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    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) on Friday said it has started fielding some 600 volunteers, emergency response units (ERU) as well as ambulances in cemeteries nationwide...

    BSP warns public vs unscrupulous groups buying coins

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    MANILA, Philippines - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) warned the public Friday not to be fooled into selling coins to criminal syndicates involved in buying and smuggling coins. In a statemen...

    Manila prosec finally files charges vs kidnapping suspects 3 years after offense

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    MANILA, Philippines - Charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention were finally filed against five people on Friday for allegedly beating up, threatening to kill and then tying up a male hairdr...

    10 men posing as cops hold up guards at St. Scholastica

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    MANILA, Philippines – Ten heavily-armed men posing as cops broke into St. Scholastica's College in Malate, Manila, early Friday morning, disarming its security guards and taking away their g...

    4 men, women charged with kidnapping, beating up hairdresser

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    MANILA, Philippines –Four men and a woman were charged on Friday with the kidnapping and serious illegal detention of male hairdresser whom they accused of being a thief in Manila in 2005. Th...

    RP has only one nurse per 5,000 students – solon

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    MANILA, Philippines - Senator Richard Gordon on Friday said the country's 43,000 public schools still lack nurses and nursing aides despite the huge volume of nursing students graduating annually....

    Senator wants a common map for all govt projects

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    MANILA, Philippines - Administration senator Edgardo Angara is set to meet next week officials of different government agencies to create "one common map" that will show all the existing and on-going ...

    Senator hits colleagues for refusing to reopen fertilizer fund scam

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    MANILA, Philippines - Opposition Senator Francis Escudero on Friday scored administration Senators Edgardo Angara and Juan Miguel Zubiri for opposing the re-opening of the Senate probe on the P728-mil...