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I.BANNER STORIES
Supreme Court upholds Neri
Cites 5 reasons for blocking Senate order
By Leila Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:22:00 03/26/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Saying the issues concerned could endanger the country’s diplomatic relations, a divided Supreme Court Tuesday blocked the Senate from arresting and forcing Romulo Neri to answer questions on the President’s involvement in the government’s controversial National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with China.
SC votes 9-6 for Neri on executive privilege
By Mike Frialde
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Supreme Court, voting 9-6, granted the petition of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Romulo Neri to enjoin the Senate from forcing him to answer three questions in the probe on the controversial $329-million ZTE national broadband network (NBN) project as these are covered by executive privilege.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325118
3. Manila Times
Neri wins SC petition, 9-6
Senators lose on ‘executive privilege’
By William B. Depasupil, Reporter
Voting 9-6, the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a petition of Romulo Neri, the chairman of the Commission on Higher Education, to invoke “executive privilege” on his conversation with President Gloria Arroyo about the aborted $330-million national broadband network project with China’s ZTE Corp.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/mar/26/yehey/top_stories/20080326top1.html
4. Malaya
SC upholds Neri claim to ‘privilege’
Stops Senate from asking 3 questions
BY EVANGELINE DE VERA
VOTING 9-6, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that acting Higher Education chair Romulo Neri correctly invoked executive privilege in refusing to answer three questions asked by the Senate in connection with its inquiry into the allegedly corrupt $329 million national broadband network project awarded to the China’s ZTE Corp.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar26/news1.htm
SC decides on Neri’s case
Says GMA properly invoked executive privilege
High Court also rules vs Senate order of arrest
By REY G. PANALIGAN
In a 9-6 vote, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled yesterday that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo properly invoked executive privilege for former Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Romulo L. Neri in his refusal to answer three questions during the Senate’s investigation of the scrapped $ 329-million National Broadband Network (NBN) project with the ZTE Corporation of China.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080326120247.html
7. Abante
SENADO KINAPON NG KORTE SUPREMA
Nina BOYET JADULCO, GRACE VELASCO at ROSE MIRANDA
Hindi lang basta pumanig sa legalidad ng ‘executive privilege’ na ini-invoke ni CHED Chairman Romulo Neri ang Korte Suprema kundi tiniklop pa nito ang kapangyarihan ng Senado sa ginagawa nitong mga imbestigasyon.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/mar2608/default.htm
8. Abante-Tonite
SC RULING COVER-UP SA BROADBAND SCAM
Rey Marfil
Kasabay ang pagsaludo kay Supreme Court (SC) chief Justice Reynato Puno, binaterya ni Senate minority floor leader Aquino ‘Nene’ Pimentel Jr., ang siyam na mahistradong pumabor kay Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Romulo Neri hinggil sa iginigiit nitong executive privilege at pagbasura sa arrest order ng Senado.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/mar2608/news1.htm
Neri panalo sa SC!
Nina Gemma Amargo-Garcia, Rudy Andal, Malou Escudero At Butch Quejada
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Kinatigan ng Korte Suprema ang petisyon ni CHED Chairman Romulo Neri sa paggiit nito ng “executive privilege” sa tatlong tanong na pilit ipinasasagot sa kanya ng mga senador kaugnay sa pagdalo niya sa $329 milyong National Broadband Network-ZTE deal investigation.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008032553
10. Journal
NERI WINS
By: Tess Bedico
SC rules senators can’t grill former NEDA chief
Voting 9-6, the Supreme Court granted the petition filed by former National Economic Development Authority chairman Romulo Neri to stop the Senate from compelling him to further testify in its ongoing investigation into the controversial $329 million national broadband network deal the government entered into with China’s ZTE Corp.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-03-26&sec=1&aid=53749
11. Business World
Crackdown vs rice hoarders
Arroyo orders all traders’ licenses cancelled; reaccreditation set
MALACAÑANG IS CRACKING DOWN on rice hoarders, ordering the revocation of National Food Authority (NFA)-accredited retailers’ licenses in an effort to prevent the diversion of subsidized supplies.
Speaking at a Cabinet meeting yesterday, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said: "The Secretary of Agriculture is staking out all NFA warehouses so he can follow the big 10-wheeler trucks and see where they are bringing rice. I’m instructing the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) to assist him in doing this."
http://bworldonline.com/BW032608/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
Focus on balanced budget scored
By Jun Vallecera
Reporter
BALANCING the national budget isn’t everything. Deficits are not all that bad, either. That’s the considered opinion of former central bank governor Jose Cuisia Jr. in response to Finance Secretary Margarito Teves’s report of a P14-billion deficit in January this year.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/03262008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Esperon admits RP lacks firepower to defend Kalayaan
But pins hopes on UN
By Redempto Anda
Southern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 04:32:00 03/26/2008
PAG-ASA ISLAND—The Philippines may lack the capability to defend its territorial claim over the Kalayaan Island Group in the disputed Spratlys, but it can bank on the support of the United Nations.
‘It is a cover-up of crime in guise of executive privilege’
By Inquirer Staff
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:37:00 03/26/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Senators were up in arms over the Supreme Court ruling Tuesday which Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said allowed “the cover-up of a crime in the guise of executive privilege” and eroded the legislature’s investigative powers.
Sparks fly at Ombudsman ZTE probe
By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:40:00 03/26/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- None of the key personalities implicated in the controversial NBN-ZTE deal showed up at the Office of the Ombudsman on Tuesday.
Still, the anti-graft body’s third public hearing on the issue had enough theatrics to keep observers glued to the end.
De Castro is top bet for 2010 polls
Pulse Asia survey also lists Legarda, Escudero
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:04:00 03/26/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Vice President Noli de Castro was the top choice as President of about one in every five Filipinos (21.5 percent) if elections had been held last month, two years ahead of the 2010 elections, according to a Pulse Asia survey.
De Castro was followed by Senators Loren Legarda (17.5 percent), Francis “Chiz” Escudero (13 percent), Manuel Roxas II (10.5 percent), Panfilo Lacson (9.9 percent) and Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. (9.3 percent).
Puno: 3 questions pose no danger to diplomatic ties
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
There is no basis to claims by Commission on Higher Education Chairman Romulo Neri that compelling him to answer three questions from senators investigating the national broadband network (NBN) scandal would imperil the country’s diplomatic relations with China.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325119
Murder pushes Melo to take oath
By Sheila Crisostomo
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo decided to assume office as Commission on Elections chairman yesterday after Monday’s killing of acting Comelec legal department director Wynne Asdala.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325121
Noli tops poll on presidential aspirants – Pulse Asia
By Helen Flores
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Vice President Noli de Castro topped anew the list of presidentiables for the 2010 election, according to a survey of Pulse Asia released yesterday.
The survey, conducted from Feb. 21 to March 8, 2008, showed that if presidential elections were held at this time, De Castro would win.
De Castro, an administration ally, got 21.5 percent of the respondents’ nod followed by opposition Senators Loren Legarda with 17.5 percent, Francis Escudero (13 percent), Manuel Roxas (10.5 percent), Panfilo Lacson (9.9 percent), and Manuel Villar (9.3 percent).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325123
Troops in Kalayaan vow not to get distracted by RP, China deal
By James Mananghaya
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
PAG-ASA ISLAND – Troops stationed here said they are focused on upholding the country’s sovereignty in this part of the disputed island group rather than on issues surrounding the Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) agreement between the Philippines and China.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325127
ZTE doubled rates of WiMAX supplier
GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
ZTE Corp. more than doubled the price of WiMAX equipment it was getting from a subcontractor for the national broadband network (NBN). So in its contract with DOTC, the Chinese firm marked up the telecom gadgets to $46,107,524 for 25,844 units, when it should have cost only $19,206,194.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Opinion&p=49&type=2&sec=25&aid=2008032588
Ombudsman junks motion to place GMA under investigation on ZTE
By Sandy Araneta
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Citing presidential immunity from suit, the Office of the Ombudsman panel conducting a parallel investigation into the controversial national broadband network (NBN) deal with China’s ZTE Corp. denied the motion of a lawyer to subpoena President Arroyo.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325130
ZTE global operations not affected by scandal
By Rainier Allan Ronda
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Despite the raging controversy over its cancelled national broadband network (NBN) deal with the Philippine government, China’s ZTE Corp. ended 2007 with a 49.8 percent increase in revenue, making it a “banner year” for the company.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080325131
Senators call SC decision in Neri case unfortunate
By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA
Senators yesterday were dismayed over the Supreme Court decision allowing former Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri to invoke executive privilege on certain questions on the scrapped $ 329-million National Broadband Network (NBN) project.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080326120251.html
Senators to appeal ‘terrible decision’
By: Bernadette E. Tamayo
A terrible decision.
This was how some senators described the Supreme Court ruling that upheld Commission on Higher Education chairman Romulo Neri’s right to invoke executive privilege on certain aspects of his testimony on the national broadband scandal.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-03-26&sec=1&aid=53766
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