Monday, October 13, 2008

I. BANNER STORIES

1. Philippine Daily Inquirer

Prepare for crisis, Palace tells public

By Christian V. Esguerra

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 02:53:00 10/13/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang Sunday urged the public to prepare for a “worst-case scenario” amid the steady negative impact of the US financial crisis on stock markets elsewhere in the world.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166096/Prepare-for-crisis-Palace-tells-public

2. The Philippine Star

RP economy may slow down but not crash – NEDA

Monday, October 13, 2008

A high-ranking official of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said yesterday that there is no need to panic amid the global financial crisis.

Augusto Santos, NEDA deputy director general, said the country’s economy may slow down, but there is no chance of a crash.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012101

3. Manila Times

Monday, October 13, 2008

IMF hails effort vs. crisis

Developing nations support plan of G7

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Developing countries backed a Group of Seven plan to tackle the financial crisis, a “first” step in global coordination to restore order to global markets, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/oct/13/yehey/top_stories/20081013top1.html

4. Malaya

IMF warns of meltdown

Says time is short in fighting panic

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund warned on Saturday the world’s financial system was near meltdown and France promised that a meeting of European leaders in Paris will detail measures to keep a market panic from triggering the most severe global downturn in decades.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/oct13/news1.htm

5. Manila Bulletin

Bush, allies seek to calm markets

President meets with officials of G7 nations, IMF, Group of 20; All eyes on Asia, Europe at opening of markets today

By JENNIFER LOVEN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER

WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush and financial leaders from nations rich and poor pledged Saturday to intensify their efforts to unblock a frozen financial system before it does more damage to an increasingly shaky global economy.

While there were no concrete offers of new moves, Bush vowed anew that his administration was doing everything possible to halt the biggest market disruptions since the Great Depression. The finance ministers spoke in unusually somber terms about the need for action.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20081013137857.html

6. The Daily Tribune

JDV DARED TO BACK SON-INITIATED BID

House minority divided on endorsing impeach

By Gerry Baldo and Charlie V. Manalo

10/13/2008

A day after encountering their first roadblock in finding that the designated House of Representative official who would accept the fresh impeachment complaint against President Arroyo had flown out of the country, the complainants may find a second hurdle in the disarray among opposition legislators who were supposed to endorse it.

Members of the minority bloc in the House of Representatives remained until yesterday mostly undecided on whether or not to endorse the complaint.

http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20081013hed1.html

7. Abante

SMUGGLED FOOD PRODUCTS UPAKAN NA!

Ulat ng AFP at nina NOEL ABUEL at REY MARFIL

Nagsimula nang magpanik ang mga kababayang domestic helpers (DHs) sa iba’t ibang panig ng mundo. Ang dahilan: sapul ng pagsemplang ng ekonomiya ang kanilang mga amo at isa sa opsyon ng mga ito ay pauwiin na sila (DHs) sa Pilipinas kahit hindi pa tapos ang kanilang kontrata.

Isa si Cristy Arciaga, 46-anyos na DH sa Singapore, sa nahahawa sa tens­yon ng kanyang negosyanteng amo.

http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/oct1308/default.htm

8. Abante-Tonite

NAGHURAMENTADO SA TSAA AT BIBINGKA

Ni ARIES CANO

Sumambulat ang kaliwang dibdib at nasawi matapos masapul ng bala ng sumpak ang isang 76-anyos na ginang habang dalawa katao pa ang nasugatan matapos maghuramentado ang isang lalaking lasing na nabigo umanong makahirit ng mainit na tsaa at nadismaya sa sukat ng itinitindang bibingka ng isang pamilya sa Tondo, Maynila kamakalawa ng gabi.

Itak, sumpak at bala ng shotgun ang mga narekober mula sa suspek na si Rommel Sumera (nakatalikod) matapos itong magwala at makapatay sa kanilang lugar sa Tondo, Maynila. (Jasper Barcelon)

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/oct1308/news_story1.htm

9. Pilipino Star Ngayon

Impeach GMA!

Ni Doris Franche

Monday, October 13, 2008

Tiniyak ni Joey de Venecia, anak ni dating House speaker Jose de Venecia, na mauuna siya sa paghahain ngayon ng panibagong impeachment complaint laban kay Pangulong Arroyo.

Sa ginanap na pulong balitaan sa Tinapayan, sinabi ni de Venecia na maaga pa lang ay nasa Kamara na siya para unahan ang ibang grupo na nagbabalak na maghain din ng panibagong complaint laban sa Pangulo.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008101260

10. Journal

MASS LAYOFFS

By: Bernadette E. Tamayo

OFW remittances to dip -- Roxas

SEN. Mar Roxas said the government should prepare for the possibility that thousands of Filipinos working abroad may lose their jobs because of the global economic crunch.

He called on the Senate to “refocus” the 2009 budget so that the country can better prepare for the “huge effects” of the financial crisis in the coming months.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-10-13&sec=1&aid=75566

11. Business World

Dissatisfaction with GMA eases

Results show gov’t programs being felt by the public — Malacañang

PUBLIC SENTIMENT regarding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has improved — in what the Palace claims is proof that government programs are working — but her ratings remain firmly in negative territory, a new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.

In its Third Quarter Social Weather Survey, the results of which were made exclusive to BusinessWorld, the SWS said Mrs. Arroyo scored a net satisfaction rating of -27, up from -38 in June and an even worse -50 in a commissioned July poll.

http://www.bworldonline.com/BW101308/content.php?id=001

12. Business Mirror

World leaders pledge resolve

Headline

Monday, 13 October 2008 00:13

WASHINGTON—Leaders from the world’s smaller, less-developed countries joined Saturday in pledging to support efforts by the United States and other major nations to halt the global financial crisis, despite worries that their own economies may suffer.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=273:world-leaders-pledge-resolve-&catid=13:headline

II. POLITICAL

SC affirms Palparan link to abduction

By Norman Bordadora

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 02:59:00 10/13/2008

MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has upheld the findings of the Court of Appeals linking retired Army Gen. Jovito Palparan to the abduction of two brothers, and said it found “convincing” one of the brothers’ accounts of how they were tortured by their captors.

Brothers Raymond and Reynaldo Manalo, both farmers in Bulacan province, were detained for 18 months on suspicion of being communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels until they escaped in August last year.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166097/SC-affirms-Palparan-link-to-abduction

Impeachment will die – Palace

Arroyo critics to file case Monday

By Christian V. Esguerra, Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 03:27:00 10/13/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang said Sunday it was confident a new impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would be dismissed because of the clout of its allies in the House of Representatives.

Press Secretary Jesus Dureza ridiculed the latest impeachment effort as more likely “to launch the supposed senatorial bids of chief complainants lawyer Harry Roque and businessman Jose de Venecia III.”

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166099/Impeachment-will-die--Palace

CA RULING

NorthRail, builder subject to RP laws

By Norman Bordadora

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 04:47:00 10/13/2008

MANILA, Philippines—The $500-million NorthRail project and the contractor appointed by the Chinese government to undertake it are subject to Philippine courts and laws, the Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166102/NorthRail-builder-subject-to-RP-laws

Married ex-priest favors RH bill

By Ephraim Aguilar

Southern Luzon Bureau

First Posted 04:46:00 10/13/2008

DARAGA, ALBAY—Rafael Triunfante, a married former priest, has come out in favor of the controversial reproductive health bill and criticized the Catholic Church for trying to stop its passage in Congress.

The Rome-educated Triunfante said the Church’s hard-line stance against modern birth control methods and sex education, which the bill would promote, showed a lack of compassion for the problems of married couples and the poor.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166101/Married-ex-priest-favors-RH-bill

Analysis

World heading for Great Depression II

By Amando Doronila

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 04:48:00 10/13/2008

Finance officials of the Group of 7 (G-7), the world’s wealthiest industrial countries, pledged over the weekend to take “all necessary steps to unfreeze credit and money markets” to end the biggest upheaval to hit the global financial system since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166103/World-heading-for-Great-Depression-II

SERVATHON 2008

Corporate volunteers serve communities

By Marlon Ramos

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 07:18:00 10/13/2008

MANILA, Philippines—High anxiety may be gripping the corporate world these days, but for the managers, supervisors and employees of some of the country’s leading companies, volunteer work knows no crisis.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081013-166116/Corporate-volunteers-serve-communities

SC decision alarms Boracay investors

By Nestor P. Burgos Jr.

Visayas Bureau

First Posted 06:04:00 10/13/2008

ILOILO CITY—Resort and hotel owners on Boracay Island are urging Congress to pass a pending bill to protect existing land occupants after the Supreme Court ruled that 40 percent of the land there is public.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20081013-166108/SC-decision-alarms-Boracay-investors

Arroyo impeach rap filed at House

By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez

INQUIRER.net

First Posted 07:43:00 10/13/2008

MANILA, Philippines-(UPDATE) Beating what they call as sham impeachment complaints, anti-Arroyo critics have filed another one, the fourth attempt seeking the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The complaint was filed at 7:40 a.m. Monday before director Ricardo Roque, the officer-in-charge at the Secretary General's office at the House of Representatives, although the complainant was at the House as early as 6 a.m.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20081013-166119/Arroyo-impeach-rap-filed-at-House

JDV III sees drama in impeach rap filing

By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 20:26:00 10/12/2008

MANILA -- Businessman Jose de Venecia III, a star witness in the National Broadband Network deal and his civil society supporters, will troop to the House of Representatives Monday morning in a second attempt to file the fourth impeachment complaint in the last four years against President Macapagal-Arroyo.

De Venecia III, who alleged the bullying by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo in what he called an overpriced deal, said the filing of the impeachment complaint could be like a scene in the popular reality TV series, Amazing Race.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20081012-166039/JDV-III-sees-drama-in-impeach-rap-filing

The rescue: Is it working?

By Des Ferriols

Monday, October 13, 2008

(Third of a series)

In the US and elsewhere in Europe, even in some parts of Asia, this chain reaction had already started in earnest. Espenilla said the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the US reflected precisely the extreme risk aversion among banks that escalated so fast that the US credit market literally seized up.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012102

GMA off to China for ASEM meet

By Paolo Romero

Monday, October 13, 2008

Press Secretary Jesus Dureza reported yesterday that President Arroyo and other heads of state will discuss the global financial crisis during a summit of world leaders in Beijing, China later this week.

Dureza said Mrs. Arroyo will attend the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Beijing from Oct. 24 to 25 and would likely hold bilateral talks with other world leaders to push the country’s interests.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012103

Drilon kidnap suspect nabbed

By James Mananghaya

Monday, October 13, 2008

A suspected Abu Sayyaf member believed to have been involved in the kidnapping in June of ABS-CBN news anchor Ces Drilon and her camera crew has been arrested, the military said yesterday

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012107

Palace to oil firms: Roll back pump prices

Monday, October 13, 2008

Malacañang urged oil companies Saturday to roll back their pump prices to levels reflecting the prices in the world market and be sensitive to the plight of the consumer.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said people should be able to feel the benefits of the decline in world oil prices now as this would help them a lot at a time when prices of goods and commodities are high.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012111

Monday, October 13, 2008

House-approved 2009 budget needs overhaul

By Efren L. Danao, Senior Reporter

Sen. Mar Roxas 2nd called Sunday for an overhaul of the proposed P1.415 trillion national budget for 2009 “to make it more effective in dealing with the impact of the global financial crisis.”

He said that the economic assumptions in the 2009 General Appropriations Act approved by the House at 3:34 a.m. Saturday were based on global conditions before the financial crisis hit the United States and other Western markets.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/oct/13/yehey/metro/20081013met1.html

Malacañang sees junking of impeach complaint

Malacañang sees an outright dismissal of the new impeachment complaint to be filed against President Gloria Arroyo on Monday, because of the administration’s overwhelming clout at the House of Representatives.

“It’s actually a [Harry] Roque- [Jose] de Venecia [3rd] senatorial [bid] launching,” Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said in an interview over Radyo ng Bayan on Sunday.

“They will file an impeachment knowing that it will be dismissed anyway. So why still file?” Dureza said.

President Arroyo’s allies make up the majority of the 238 members in the House.

Roque and the younger de Venecia were supposed to file the complaint Saturday but the officer who was supposed to receive it was out of the country. De Venecia 3rd is the son of former House Speaker Jose de Venecie Jr. of Pangasinan.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/oct/13/yehey/metro/20081013met2.html

This early, Customs on alert vs illegal Christmas goods

By Helen Flores

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is now on full alert in monitoring all imported firecrackers, toy guns and unsafe Christmas decorations in a bid to prevent the illegal entry of sub-standard products during the holiday season.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012113

Senators seek inventory of inmates qualified for executive clemency

By Aurea Calica

Monday, October 13, 2008

After the presidential pardon granted to convicted murderer Claudio Teehankee Jr., Senators Panfilo Lacson and Manuel Roxas II are seeking an inventory of prisoners qualified or who had applied for executive clemency to find out if such privilege were being accorded fairly to rich and poor inmates.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012115

JDV hands-off on son’s impeachment case vs GMA

Monday, October 13, 2008

Former speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., once a principal ally of President Arroyo in Congress, is taking a hands-off stance on the new impeachment complaint against her.

“For the sake of delicadeza, I cannot endorse it or support it because my son Joey is among the complainants,” he told The STAR in a phone interview

“I also do not want to be accused of conflict of interest. I will be staying away from the impeachment process, both in the committee level and in plenary.”

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012116

Mindanao politicians use teenagers as bodyguards

By James Mananghaya

Monday, October 13, 2008

Children between the ages of 12 and 14 act as armed bodyguards for politicians in Mindanao, a Muslim youth leader revealed yesterday.

“I went around one of the provinces in central Mindanao recently to look for a mosque to pray, and then I saw these armed children, mostly 12 to 14 years old, who are working for a local government official as bodyguards,” Revi Sani, a member of the Philippine karate team and a multi-awarded Muslim youth leader from Marawi City, told The STAR.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012117

CA upholds ruling on contract agreement of Northrail and CNMEC

By Mike Frialde

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Court of Appeals (CA) upheld the ruling of the Makati City Regional Trial Court (RTC) to conduct a summary hearing over the details of the contract agreement between North Luzon Railways Corp. (Northrail) and the China National Machinery and Equipment Corporation (CNMEC).

In the 18-page ruling by Associate Justice Remedios Salazar-Fernando, the CA’s Fifth Division dismissed CNMEC’s petition for a temporary restraining order on the Makati City RTC’s order for lack of merit.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012119

Senate urged to approve budget

By Paolo Romero

Monday, October 13, 2008

Malacañang urged the Senate to approve as soon possible the P1.415-trillion national budget after the House passed the measure.

Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said the budget is key to the government’s strategy to shield the country from the US financial crisis through massive infrastructure and social spending to keep the economy going amid the global economic slowdown.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012118

TUCP questions GSIS stakes in Indonesian banks

Monday, October 13, 2008

The country’s largest labor group yesterday questioned the equity stakes of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in at least three Indonesian banks, which should have been invested in the country.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) also cited the pension fund’s acquisition of shares in the fifth-largest US bank.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012120

GMA extends life of Middle East Preparedness Committee

Monday, October 13, 2008

President Arroyo has extended the life of the Presidential Middle East Preparedness Committee (PMEPC) owing to the continued volatility of the security situation in the region.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012121

Human trafficking in RP becoming more alarming

By Michael Punongbayan

Monday, October 13, 2008

Despite the passage of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, human smuggling continues to be the third most profitable crime in the world next to the illegal drug trade and arms dealing.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20081012122

Impeach rap vs GMA filed today

BY ASHZEL HACHERO

JOSE "Joey" de Venecia III and civil society groups will file today the fourth impeachment complaint against President Arroyo before the House of Representatives.

UP Law Professor Harry Roque said they would be at the Batasan complex in Quezon City early in the morning.

"Last year, lawyer Roel Pulido filed an impeachment case endorsed by Laguna Rep. Edgar San Luis, an ally of the Arroyo administration. We are preventing Pulido or any stalwart to block this complaint against the President since there can only be one impeachment complaint per year," Roque said.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/oct13/news3.htm

4th impeach case filed today; opposition support uncertain

By BEN R. ROSARIO

Authors of the fourth impeachment case against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said yesterday they will be at the entrance gates of the House of Representatives to file the complaint as early as 6 a.m today but support from the opposition remained uncertain.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20081013137858.html

Lakas-CMD proposes to unite all pro-GMA political parties

The ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats will soon launch a major drive to unify all political parties allied with the administration to guarantee victory in the 2010 presidential race, party Executive Director Ray Roquero disclosed yesterday.

Included in the unification campaign are the Nationalist People’s Coalition and the Liberal Party, two groups that have hinted the fielding of presidential candidates in 2010. Also mentioned were the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, the Philippine Democratic Socialist Party and several partylist groups.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20081013137863.html

$ 400-M Northrail contract not immune from suit, says CA

The Court of Appeals (CA) has ruled that the $ 400-million contract between the Philippine government and the China National Machinery Equipment Corp. (CNMEC) of the People’s Republic of China (PROC) for the construction of the North Luzon Railway (Northrail) is not immune from suit.

In a decision written by Associate Justice Remedios Salazar Fernando, the CA said that based on the contract, the Northrail project is not an executive agreement or a treaty between the Philippines and PROC but only between CNMEC and the North Luzon Railway Corp. (NLRC).

http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN20081013137855.html

Impeach 4 inismol ng Erap camp

Nina Rey Marfil at Nilo Marasigan

Katulad ng maagang deklarasyon ng mga kampon ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, basurahan din ang naging ang prediksyon ng kampo ni dating Pangulong Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada sa kahihinatnan ng pang-

apat na impeachment complaint laban sa Pangulo.

Mismong ang anak ng dating Pangulong Estrada na si Senate pro-tempore Jinggoy Estrada, ang nagduda sa tsansang makarating sa pintuan ng Senado ang 4th impeachment complaint.

Ayon kay Estrada, walang mangyayari sa reklamong isinampa ng grupo nina UP professor Harry Roque at Jose ‘Joey’ de Venecia III, anak ni dating House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., lalo pa’t kontrolado ni Mrs. Arroyo ang Mababang Kapulungan ng Kongreso.

“Palagay ko, walang mangyayari,” prediksyon ng batang Estrada sa panibagong impeachment complaint ng ilang taga-oposisyon laban kay Mrs. Arroyo.

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/oct1308/news_story2.htm

Media ban sa ethics probe vs Villar inangalan

(Rey Marfil)

Maagang inangalan ni opposition Sen. Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson ang posibleng pagpapatupad ng ‘media ban’ sa ethics probe na kinakaharap ni Senate President Manuel Villar Jr., tungkol sa isyu ng pagsisingit ng P200-milyong C-5 Road project.

Ayon kay Lacson, mas magkakaroon ng patas na laban kung bukas sa media at publiko ang imbestigasyong ipapatawag ni Sen. Pia Cayetano, chairperson ng Senate committee on ethics.

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/oct1308/news_story4.htm

Lozano, Pulido iiskrinan sa impeachment 4

(Juliet de Loza/Rose Miranda)

IMaagang-maagang susugod ngayon sa Kamara ang mga component ng ikaapat na impeachment complaint laban kay Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo upang masigurong hindi makakaporma ang alinmang pekeng impeachment complaint na tulad umano ng isinampa noon nina Oliver Lozano at Ruel Pulido.

http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/oct1308/news03.htm

Palace denies hand in impeach issue delay

MALACAÑANG YESTERDAY denied having a hand in the delay in the filing of a new impeachment case against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

At the same time, it called on the opposition to help grow the economy instead of seeking the President’s ouster.

This, after administration critic Herminio Harry L. Roque, National Broadband Network (NBN) scandal witness Jose P. de Venecia III and their companions failed to file an impeachment complaint against Mrs. Arroyo on Saturday due to the absence of personnel at the House of Representatives secretary-general’s Office.

http://www.bworldonline.com/BW101308/content.php?id=076

Joey: JDV doesn’t know impeach move

By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco

BUSINESSMEN Joey de Venecia III yesterday admitted that he did not consult his father, former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., on his participation to the planned filing of impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this Monday at the House of Representatives.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-10-13&sec=4&aid=0

CA junks CNMEC complaint on scrapping of Northrail project

10/13/2008

The Court of Appeals (CA), in an 18-page decision, has junked the petition filed by China National Machinery Equipment Corp. (CNMEC) questioning the scrapping of the $400-million Northrail project.

http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20081013hed5.html

GMA foes in disarray over impeachment

By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco

Members of the House opposition remained in disarray last night in coming up with a unified position in endorsing the impeachment complaint to be filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before the House secretary general’s office this morning.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-10-13&sec=4&aid=75563

Impeach bid lacks solid opposition support

By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco

THE opposition in the House of Representatives, usually united on issues against the administration, appeared in disarray on the eve of the filing of another impeachment complaint against President Macapagal-Arroyo.

However, House Deputy Minority Leader Rep. Satur Ocampo and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza remained hopeful that they could use the one-month recess to discuss with the minority the issue of supporting the impeachment complaint they are filing this morning with the House Secretary General’s office.

“Most likely, there will be initial endorsers at the filing on Monday. Since Congress is in recess, we’ll wait for session to resume on November 10 then campaign for additional endorsements. The minority has not taken a unified stand yet,” said Ocampo, one of the supposed endorsers.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-10-13&sec=4&aid=75569

Oposisyon, walang nagkakaisang posisyon vs impeachment complaint

By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco

INAMIN kahapon ng oposisyon sa Kamara de Representantes na wala silang nagkakaisang posisyon sa pagsuporta sa panibagong impeachment complaint na isasampa ngayong umaga laban kay Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-10-13&sec=4&aid=75576

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