March 27, 2008 Mind Bullet Inc.
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I.BANNER STORIES
Arroyo happily tells ‘real story for 2008’
By Michael Lim Ubac, Tonette Orejas
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:36:00 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines—A day after the Supreme Court upheld her power to invoke executive privilege, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared that she was “bullish on our economy, optimistic about our future and committed to being a force for good for our nation.”
GMA seeks standardized ODA requirements
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, March 27, 2008
President Arroyo urged foreign creditors yesterday to come up with standards on official development assistance (ODA) requirements for the Philippines in the wake of controversies involving some major foreign- funded projects in the country.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24
3. Manila Times
Palace backs reviving ‘Garci’
Malacañang to support Melo’s initiatives to clean up Comelec
By Angelo S. Samonte Reporter
Malacañang said it will back reopening of the “Hello, Garci” controversy if such
support will help reform the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and put an end to the killings of officials of the poll agency.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/mar/27/yehey/top_stories/20080327top1.html
4. Malaya
'Neri not off the hook yet'
Ping: More questions than 3 barred by tribunal
BY DENNIS GADIL
SEN. Panfilo Lacson yesterday said former Planning Secretary Romulo Neri cannot evade the NBN-ZTE broadband inquiry as there was nothing in the Supreme Court's decision Tuesday which says he could not be summoned again by the Senate.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar27/news1.htm
P21.7-B cost of rice subsidy seen
Villar files bill to reform rice importation
Senate seeks reforms in rice importation
By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA
The cost of subsidizing cheap rice sold by the National Food Authority (NFA) could reach P21.7 billion this year, senators said yesterday as Senate President Manuel B. Villar Jr. filed a bill that seeks to initiate reforms in the system of rice importation being implemented by the NFA.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080327120335.html
Gloria ‘excommunicated’
By Sherwin C. Olaes
03/27/2008
President Arroyo has been virtually excommunicated by an Archbishop, saying she is a “public sinner” who must be denied communion, intimating that it would be making a mockery of the sacred host which, to Catholics, is the body and blood of Jesus Christ effected through transubstantiation, for her to be given any communion.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080327hed1.html
7. Abante
SISIPA PA RIN KAMI! -- SENADO
Ni BOYET JADULCO
“Pinosasan man kami, sisipa pa rin kami!”
Ito ang tiniyak kahapon ni Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, chairman ng Senate Blue Ribbon committee na pangunahing nag-iimbestiga sa NBN-ZTE deal, sa kabila ng pagtiklop ng Korte Suprema sa kapangyarihan ng Senado.
Naniniwala si Cayetano na hindi lang ang imbestigasyon sa kanseladong $329 milyong NBN-ZTE deal ang pinilay ng desisyon ng Supreme Court (SC) na pumapabor kay Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Romulo Neri na isangkalan ang ‘executive privilege’ sa pagtatanong ng mga senador upang kalkalin ang katotohanan.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/mar2708/default.htm
NERI DI PA LIGTAS!
Rey Marfil With Bernard Taguinod
Bagama’t nirendahan ng siyam na mahistrado ng Korte Suprema, tuloy ang Senado sa gagawing pagpiga at panggigisa kay Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairman Romulo Neri sa suhulan at over pricing ng national broadband deal.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/mar2708/news1.htm
GMA, pamilya di bibigyan ng komunyon
Ni Doris Franche
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tahasang sinabi ni Lingayen-Pangasinan Archbishop Oscar Cruz na hindi niya bibigyan ng komunyon sina Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, pamilya nito at ang mga kilalang makasalanan sa bansa.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008032661
10. Journal
HOARDERS BEWARE
Police to go after traders hoarding rice -- Razon
POLICE will go after rice hoarders and others taking advantage of the reported rice shortage, Philippine National Police chief Director General Avelino I. Razon, Jr. said yesterday.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-03-27&sec=1&aid=53913
11. Business World
BY ANNA BARBARA L. LORENZO, Reporter
Corruption stressed at donor meet
CLARK, Pampanga — Corruption concerns took center stage in yesterday’s start of the Philippines Development Forum (PDF), with delegates saying it posed a risk to reforms achieved by the country.
http://www.bworldonline.com/BW032708/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
Private biz to fund P63B of projects
By Cai U. Ordinario
Reporter
IN an effort to control government spending on infrastructure projects and encourage the private sector to participate in national development, the government has bared 10 priority projects that will be proposed for financing by the private sector.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/03272008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
RP to buy 1.5M tons of rice from Vietnam
By Amy R. Remo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:28:00 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines—To address its rice shortfall, the Philippines on Wednesday signed an agreement with Vietnam in Clark, Pampanga, allowing the former to import up to 1.5 million metric tons of Vietnamese white rice.
De Venecia son seeks SC help over wiretapping
By Leila Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:23:00 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Broadband deal witness Jose “Joey” de Venecia III Wednesday took legal action against the alleged wiretapping of his private calls.
Lozada sad but will carry on, not to let Cory down
By Margaux Ortiz, Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:06:00 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Whistle-blower Rodolfo Lozada Jr. on Wednesday said he remained committed to exposing the truth behind the scuttled National Broadband Network (NBN) project despite such setbacks as the Supreme Court decision upholding Romulo Neri’s refusal to further testify on the deal and former President Corazon Aquino’s being sidelined by colon cancer.
House to pursue baselines bill
By TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer, INQUIRER.net
First Posted 05:58:00 03/27/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- House leaders said they would go through with plans to pass a controversial bill redefining the country’s archipelagic baselines and would leave it up to international bodies to settle whether this was in consonance with international law.
Vietnam commits 1.5-M tons of rice
Thursday, March 27, 2008
CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga – Vietnam officially committed yesterday to supply up to 1.5 million metric tons of rice to the Philippines.
The commitment is contained in a memorandum of agreement signed by Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and Vietnamese Trade Minister Yu Huy Hoang.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080326119
Joey petitions SC for writ of habeas data to stop wiretapping of military, police
By Mike Frialde
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Businessman Jose de Venecia III yesterday petitioned the Supreme Court to grant him a writ of habeas data that would compel the military and police to stop the alleged wiretapping of his telephones.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080326121
GMA orders DOTC to allot P1 billion for environment-friendly transport projects
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, March 27, 2008
President Arroyo ordered yesterday the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) to allocate P1 billion from the Special Vehicle Control Fund for environment-sustainable transport projects such as alternative fuel.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080326124
Lakas, Kampi to merge in June
By Jess Diaz
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The two biggest pro-administration parties, the ruling Lakas and Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), will be merged in June, Speaker Prospero Nograles said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080326131
Congress asked to remove provision on ‘forgiveness’ in anti-rape law
By Helen Flores
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Social Welfare and Development Secretary Esperanza Cabral yesterday pushed for the removal of a provision in the Anti-Rape Law in a bid to stop the “cycle of abuse” among Filipino women.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080326135
Foreign donors warned aid open to corruption
BY REGINA BENGCO
FORMER senior government officials yesterday warned the international donor community their assistance to the Arroyo administration is vulnerable to corruption, even as President Arroyo assured international donors her government is tapping both the public and private sectors to ensure the integrity of loan programs.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar27/news4.htm
No decision yet on Spratly deal extension
THE Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs headed by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita is asking for more time to craft its recommendations on the possible extension of the Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) among the Philippines, China and Vietnam on the Spratly islands in 2005.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar27/news5.htm
After 'privilege,'it's on to Cha-Cha?
FORMER Senate President Franklin Drilon yesterday warned that Malacañang's recent "victory" before the Supreme Court in the case of acting Higher Education chair Romulo Neri may embolden President Arroyo to revive her plan to amend the 1987 Constitution through the so-called People's Initiative.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/mar27/news7.htm
House to assess effects of SC ruling on inquiries
By EDMER F. PANESA
Speaker Prospero C. Nograles said yesterday that the House of Representatives will look into the "negative effects" of the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Romulo Neri on the inherent authority of Congress to conduct investigations in aid of legislation.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080327120340.html
10 opposition senatoriables nanguna sa survey
Rey Marfil
Kapag nagkataon, magkakaroon lamang ng ‘Part 2’ ang resulta ng May 14, 2007 senatorial election sa 2010 polls matapos pakainin ng alikabok sa huling senatorial survey ng hanay ng oposisyon ang mga alagad ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/mar2708/news4.htm
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