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I visited the Philippine Embassy today. It is no longer in elegant Palace Green in Kensington, a tree-lined street of stately homes known as Millionaires’ Row at the back of Kensington Palace, once home to Charles and Diana, the Duke of Cambridge’s parents.

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 I had planned this visit to London long before I decided I would reprint “The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos.”

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I have met Anwar Ibrahim several times both in Kuala Lumpur and in Manila.

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He said this information was relayed to him by Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi, who was honored with the Congressional Medal of Achievement by De Venecia and other House leaders during his visit on Monday.
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[DatePublished] => 2004-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204188 [Title] => Constituent Assembly likely to be approved [Summary] => My source believes that, if newspaper reports are accurate, we are on the verge of amending the 1987 Constitution through a Constituent Assembly.

He says ten senators, two short of the required simple majority of 12, favor approval of the Joint Re-solution convening the Senate and the House of Representatives into a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) to revise the Charter drafted in 1986 by a 49-member Commission appointed by then President Corazon Aquino.
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I visited the Philippine Embassy today. It is no longer in elegant Palace Green in Kensington, a tree-lined street of stately homes known as Millionaires’ Row at the back of Kensington Palace, once home to Charles and Diana, the Duke of Cambridge’s parents.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 964872 [Title] => London is only a place [Summary] =>

 I had planned this visit to London long before I decided I would reprint “The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos.”

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I have met Anwar Ibrahim several times both in Kuala Lumpur and in Manila.

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[DatePublished] => 2006-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271432 [Title] => Saudi Arabia mulling petrochem plant, expanded refinery in RP [Summary] => Saudi Arabia is considering expanding an oil refinery in Bataan or Mindanao and building a naphtha-cracking petrochemical plant in another part of the country, Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said yesterday.

He said this information was relayed to him by Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi, who was honored with the Congressional Medal of Achievement by De Venecia and other House leaders during his visit on Monday.
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He says ten senators, two short of the required simple majority of 12, favor approval of the Joint Re-solution convening the Senate and the House of Representatives into a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) to revise the Charter drafted in 1986 by a 49-member Commission appointed by then President Corazon Aquino.
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