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                    [Title] => ‘Napolist’ Part 2: More officials to be named
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The list of lawmakers and officials tagged by Janet Lim-Napoles in the pork barrel fund scam will include more names, her lawyer bared yesterday.

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In Tagalog, whenever someone wants a “commission” from payments made to a project, they call it “taga” (chop).

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If anyone noticed, China’s president has not weighed in on the Scarborough Shoal issue.

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The Philippines may start exporting rice to other Asian countries in the first quarter of 2013 if no major calamities hit the country, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 768688 [Title] => Government consults civil society on 2013 budget [Summary] =>

The Aquino administration is consulting with civil society organizations (CSOs) in crafting its 2013 national budget, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said yesterday.

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The Department of Budget and Management is now laying the groundwork for its planned consultations with civil society organizations starting this year for the 2012 budget process.

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[DatePublished] => 2006-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 243496 [Title] => Virata calls for merger of DA, DAR [Summary] => Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) president Cesar E.A. Virata, a former finance minister during the Marcos administration, is urging government to seriously consider the merger of two government agencies – the Agriculture and Agrarian Reform departments – and the further outsourcing of infrastructure contracts from graft-ridden Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 141923 [Title] => A Cabinet revamp may be timely [Summary] => President GMA was practicing at the Malacañang music room a song she was expected to sing in a public engagement later in the day. For some reason, her voice that morning was extra soft, lacking fire and passion and the one practicing her told her so. Some Palace officials overheard the music teacher’s comment and so they volunteered their own unsolicited suggestion.

"We know how you can have fire and passion, even anger in your voice," they told the President. "Just think of Secretaries Montemayor and Braganza."
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87823 [Title] => 2,000 taking part in start of pilgrimage vs hunger [Summary] =>

DAVAO CITY - Close to 2,000 people are expected to join the start of the 40-day pilgrimage against hunger this morning at the Sandawa Park here.

The pilgrimage, dubbed the "Great Jubilee Pilgrimage Against Hunger," will be led by 12 representatives of landless farmers, displaced lumads (uplanders), urban poor, abused workers and women. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

AGRICULTURE AND AGRARIAN REFORM
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                    [Title] => ‘Napolist’ Part 2: More officials to be named
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The list of lawmakers and officials tagged by Janet Lim-Napoles in the pork barrel fund scam will include more names, her lawyer bared yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140514/militant-with-napoles-banner-1.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 994381 [Title] => ‘Pork chops’ [Summary] =>

In Tagalog, whenever someone wants a “commission” from payments made to a project, they call it “taga” (chop).

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825208 [Title] => Escalation [Summary] =>

If anyone noticed, China’s president has not weighed in on the Scarborough Shoal issue.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 797110 [Title] => Phl may export rice by 2013 [Summary] =>

The Philippines may start exporting rice to other Asian countries in the first quarter of 2013 if no major calamities hit the country, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 768688 [Title] => Government consults civil society on 2013 budget [Summary] =>

The Aquino administration is consulting with civil society organizations (CSOs) in crafting its 2013 national budget, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804708 [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 643854 [Title] => DBM sets plan for wider budget consultations [Summary] =>

The Department of Budget and Management is now laying the groundwork for its planned consultations with civil society organizations starting this year for the 2012 budget process.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804708 [AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 327530 [Title] => Palace denies misuse of recovered Marcos wealth [Summary] => Malacañang turned the tables yesterday on Senate President Franklin Drilon and said that while he is focusing on the administration’s alleged misuse of the Marcos money, millions of pesos are being wasted on so-called legislative inquiries that are actually in "aid of destabilization."
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 243496 [Title] => Virata calls for merger of DA, DAR [Summary] => Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) president Cesar E.A. Virata, a former finance minister during the Marcos administration, is urging government to seriously consider the merger of two government agencies – the Agriculture and Agrarian Reform departments – and the further outsourcing of infrastructure contracts from graft-ridden Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 141923 [Title] => A Cabinet revamp may be timely [Summary] => President GMA was practicing at the Malacañang music room a song she was expected to sing in a public engagement later in the day. For some reason, her voice that morning was extra soft, lacking fire and passion and the one practicing her told her so. Some Palace officials overheard the music teacher’s comment and so they volunteered their own unsolicited suggestion.

"We know how you can have fire and passion, even anger in your voice," they told the President. "Just think of Secretaries Montemayor and Braganza."
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87823 [Title] => 2,000 taking part in start of pilgrimage vs hunger [Summary] =>

DAVAO CITY - Close to 2,000 people are expected to join the start of the 40-day pilgrimage against hunger this morning at the Sandawa Park here.

The pilgrimage, dubbed the "Great Jubilee Pilgrimage Against Hunger," will be led by 12 representatives of landless farmers, displaced lumads (uplanders), urban poor, abused workers and women. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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