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                    [Title] => Lots of spirit in Boracay
                    [Summary] => Asian Spirit chairman Noel Oñate said Boracay had the most spectacular New Year happening with a fabulous fireworks display especially coming from the Waling-Waling Hotel in cooperation with Asian Spirit. Manila’s Who’s Who in high society - were all in Bora to celebrate the New Year with lots of glitz. Diplomats, some showbiz celebs and society-page regulars joined the beach New Year’s bash. For sure, lots of spirits were consumed, but as Spybiz informants reported, the "hard stuff" was also in abundance giving many "societs" a head.
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                    [AuthorName] => S.A. Maguire
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                    [Title] => P200-B motive
                    [Summary] => Pre-need insurance companies are elated over the House of Representatives’ approval of Resolution No. 1049 urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to suspend the implementation of the Actuarial Reserve Liability (ARL). Based on a study prepared by the USAID-funded Accelerating Growth Investment and Liberalization with Equity (AGILE), pre-need players were complaining that they were not consulted and that the ARL was arbitrarily implemented by the SEC as the new method of computing liabilities of pre-need companies.
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                    [Title] => Squeeze-play on cap
                    [Summary] => A few years back, a then top official of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made an offer in behalf of a top US foreign-owned insurance company and its local affiliate to purchase the Sobrepeña-owned College Assurance Plan (CAP). The US company saw the tremendous opportunity in pre-need educational plans in the country catering to hundreds of thousands of Filipino families wanting to fulfill their dream of securing their children’s education.
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                    [AuthorName] => S.A. Maguire
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                    [Title] => Pre-need group opposes appointment of Escobillo
                    [Summary] => With the imminent transfer of jurisdiction over pre-need plans from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the Insurance Commission (IC), the Philippine Federation of Preneed Plan Companies opposed yesterday the appointment of Evangeline Escobillo as the new head of the IC.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-10-08 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804021
                    [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña
                    [SectionName] => Business
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                    [ArticleID] => 199109
                    [Title] => Lobby group admits getting funds from USAID-AGILE
                    [Summary] => The lobby group Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) admitted during a Senate hearing last Wednesday that its key officials get funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and that it has a member sitting in the  Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-03-16 00:00:00
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                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [ArticleID] => 197868
                    [Title] => How to distract Paeng
                    [Summary] => There’s talk that AB Capital Securities, Inc. president Filomeno Francisco might give Alicia Morales-Arroyo a run for the chairmanship of the Philippine Stock Exchange.


As everybody knows, Ping Francisco is the loyal man of Ramon del Rosario Jr., the country’s finance secretary during the watch of former President Ramos. Aleli Morales-Arroyo is the "favorite" sister-in-law (by extension) of President Macapagal-Arroyo. Her husband, Ignacito Arroyo, is the President’s favorite in-law.


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-03-06 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135040
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1488513
                    [AuthorName] => Margaret Jao-Grey 
                    [SectionName] => Business
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                    [ArticleID] => 197223
                    [Title] => Senate to probe lobby group
                    [Summary] => Two Senate committees will investigate information that a local lobby group is allegedly being funded by foreign interests for it to promote and push for an open skies policy.


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                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [Title] => Agile execs told: Show up or else
                    [Summary] => Senate President Franklin Drilon threatened to cite in contempt yesterday officials of the United States-funded Accelerating Growth Investment and Liberalization with Equity (Agile) if they fail to attend today’s investigation of the Senate committee of the whole.


The Senate probe intends to determine whether Agile is a lobby group or part of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). 


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-02-28 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1097133
                    [AuthorName] =>  Jose Rodel Clapano
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
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                    [Title] => Agile: It’s either a case of rape or prostitution
                    [Summary] => OPEN DOOR TO AID: Chronic lack of funds and managerial incompetence in the bureaucracy were the keys that opened the door for the US AID, oozing with millions of dollars, to come in and influence government policy on matters pertaining to American interests.


If it was not a case of prostitution, it was rape with tacit consent. At the very least, it was seduction using dollars.


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-02-27 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136322
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1804858
                    [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
                    [SectionName] => Opinion
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                    [Title] => US lobby, local runners shape key gov't policies?
                    [Summary] => $41-M LOBBY FUND: We take seriously the warning by senators and congressmen that a US-funded lobby has influenced shaping of government policy to the point that we invariably drift in the direction that the US wants.


Sen. Ralph Recto, Leyte Rep. Aniceto Saludo and other alarmed lawmakers were specific in their denunciation of the foreign lobby. They identified it as the Development Alternatives Inc. based in Maryland.


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-02-20 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136322
                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
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ACCELERATING GROWTH INVESTMENT AND LIBERALIZATION

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                    [Title] => Lots of spirit in Boracay
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                    [Title] => P200-B motive
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                    [Title] => Pre-need group opposes appointment of Escobillo
                    [Summary] => With the imminent transfer of jurisdiction over pre-need plans from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the Insurance Commission (IC), the Philippine Federation of Preneed Plan Companies opposed yesterday the appointment of Evangeline Escobillo as the new head of the IC.


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                    [Title] => Lobby group admits getting funds from USAID-AGILE
                    [Summary] => The lobby group Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) admitted during a Senate hearing last Wednesday that its key officials get funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and that it has a member sitting in the  Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).


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                    [Title] => How to distract Paeng
                    [Summary] => There’s talk that AB Capital Securities, Inc. president Filomeno Francisco might give Alicia Morales-Arroyo a run for the chairmanship of the Philippine Stock Exchange.


As everybody knows, Ping Francisco is the loyal man of Ramon del Rosario Jr., the country’s finance secretary during the watch of former President Ramos. Aleli Morales-Arroyo is the "favorite" sister-in-law (by extension) of President Macapagal-Arroyo. Her husband, Ignacito Arroyo, is the President’s favorite in-law.


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                    [Title] => Senate to probe lobby group
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                    [Title] => Agile execs told: Show up or else
                    [Summary] => Senate President Franklin Drilon threatened to cite in contempt yesterday officials of the United States-funded Accelerating Growth Investment and Liberalization with Equity (Agile) if they fail to attend today’s investigation of the Senate committee of the whole.


The Senate probe intends to determine whether Agile is a lobby group or part of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). 


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                    [Focus] => 0
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                    [AuthorName] =>  Jose Rodel Clapano
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                    [Title] => Agile: It’s either a case of rape or prostitution
                    [Summary] => OPEN DOOR TO AID: Chronic lack of funds and managerial incompetence in the bureaucracy were the keys that opened the door for the US AID, oozing with millions of dollars, to come in and influence government policy on matters pertaining to American interests.


If it was not a case of prostitution, it was rape with tacit consent. At the very least, it was seduction using dollars.


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                    [ColumnID] => 136322
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                    [Title] => US lobby, local runners shape key gov't policies?
                    [Summary] => $41-M LOBBY FUND: We take seriously the warning by senators and congressmen that a US-funded lobby has influenced shaping of government policy to the point that we invariably drift in the direction that the US wants.


Sen. Ralph Recto, Leyte Rep. Aniceto Saludo and other alarmed lawmakers were specific in their denunciation of the foreign lobby. They identified it as the Development Alternatives Inc. based in Maryland.


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