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  • Nograles opposes new taxes

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    H ouse Speaker Prospero Nograles shot down calls for the passage of new taxes as a response to the country's swelling budget deficit. “Any tax measure today is so ill-timed and so ill-adv...

    SC tells PNP to wrap up probe on missing World Bank consultant

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    T he Supreme Court (SC) gave the Philippine National Police one year to finish its investigation on the disappearance of a purported World Bank consultant, even as the High Tribunal pointed out tha...

    UN sends food for nearly 50,000 people driven from homes by volcano

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has sent 20 metric tons of high energy biscuits to aid nearly 50,000 Filipinos forced to leave their homes by a possible eruption of Mount Mayon volcano i...

    Fatal bangs that launch Filipino New Year

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    MANILA // Filipinos like to celebrate New Year with a bang – preferably a volley of really big bangs made by fireworks or guns. This, traditionally, is supposed to scare away evil spirits.But ev...

    Biscuits for volcano-driven Filipinos

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    New York, Dec 31 : The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has sent 20 metric tonness of high energy biscuits to aid nearly 50,000 Filipinos forced to leave their homes by a possible eruption of...

    UN sends food for nearly 50,000 people driven from homes by Philippines volcano

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has sent 20 metric tonness of high energy biscuits to aid nearly 50,000 Filipinos forced to leave their homes by a possible eruption of Mount Mayon volcan...

    Youth group endorses Bro. Eddie

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    MANILA, Philippines - The Kristiyanong Kabataan para sa Bayan (KKB), a youth movement with one million members nationwide, has endorsed Bro. Eddie Villanueva for president in 2010. The group, led by i...

    UN sends food for nearly 50,000 people driven from homes by Philippines volcano

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    WFP ) has sent 20 metric tonness of high energy biscuits to aid nearly 50,000 Filipinos forced to leave their homes by a possible eruption of Mount Mayon volcano in the northern Philippine island of L...

    Preaching the Gospel to the communist rebels in the Philippines

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Poverty, unemployment and corruption of the military still pushing many farmers to support the rebels of the Communist New People's Army, despite the amnesty of 2007 and integration programs and devel...

    2,400 tourists flock to Mayon a day, risking lives for thrill to see volcano erupting

    Posted by Philippines News latest RSS headlines - Philippine Times.com on December 31st, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized | Comments Off
    LEGASPI - Thousands of tourists are flocking to the Philippines' restive Mayon volcano with many even risking their lives to get close to the spectacular flowing lava, authorities said Wednesday. Gov...