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[Title] => 69 Chinese nationals nabbed at Tony Yang-linked steel plant in Misamis Oriental
[Summary] => Authorities raided a steel manufacturing plant in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, on Friday, May 15, resulting in the arrest of 69 Chinese nationals and one Filipino.
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[Title] => World owes Filipino workers protection, Gibo tells European leaders
[Summary] => Countries that rely on Filipino workers to staff their hospitals, man their ships, and care for their elderly have a duty to help protect them, Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro Jr. told a gathering of European defense leaders on Wednesday, March 25, as the war in the Middle East continues to affect over two million Filipino workers.
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[Title] => Philippines pushes deeper defense ties with NATO
[Summary] => The Philippines is expanding its defense outreach, engaging NATO and European partners.
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[Title] => DND, AFP: Middle East conflict poses 'no direct threat' to Philippine territory
[Summary] => The Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines have reassured the public that the ongoing Middle East conflict poses "no direct" threat to the country.
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[Title] => Philippines, Brazil explore defense ties as new attaché assumes post
[Summary] => The Department of National Defense met with Brazil's newly-designated defense attaché on Thursday, February 5, to discuss expanding military cooperation between the two countries.
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[Title] => DND and AFP: An alternative approach to a defense posture
[Summary] => The Department of Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines will have to live by this phrase: transforming while performing. Among their mandates on many fronts: defending our sovereign rights against incursion, campaigning against remnants of the communist movement, maintaining fragile peace in the Bangsamoro, supporting the people’s outcry against systemic corruption and thwarting destabilization attempts.
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[AuthorName] => Rommel Jude Ong
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[Title] => Philippines adds 12 South Korean FA-50 Block 70 jets to air fleet in $700-M deal
[Summary] => The Philippines has acquired 12 FA-50 Block 70 light combat aircraft worth over $700 million from South Korea’s Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), boosting the country’s air defense capabilities under its ongoing military modernization program.
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[Title] => Gibo: DND, AFP had no role in Duterte arrest
[Summary] => The Department of National Defense (DND) and the military had nothing to do with the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. maintained yesterday.
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[Title] => Marcos increases daily subsistence allowance for AFP personnel to P350
[Summary] => President Marcos has approved a significant increase in the daily subsistence allowance of officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, raising it from P150 to P350.
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[Title] => ‘Matter of national security’: Foreign drone found in Masbate was used for data collection
[Summary] => A foreign drone found off the coast of Masbate, initially suspected to be of Chinese origin, was determined to have been used for "commercial, scientific and military purposes."
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[Title] => DND, AFP: Middle East conflict poses 'no direct threat' to Philippine territory
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[Title] => DND and AFP: An alternative approach to a defense posture
[Summary] => The Department of Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines will have to live by this phrase: transforming while performing. Among their mandates on many fronts: defending our sovereign rights against incursion, campaigning against remnants of the communist movement, maintaining fragile peace in the Bangsamoro, supporting the people’s outcry against systemic corruption and thwarting destabilization attempts.
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[Title] => Philippines adds 12 South Korean FA-50 Block 70 jets to air fleet in $700-M deal
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[Title] => Gibo: DND, AFP had no role in Duterte arrest
[Summary] => The Department of National Defense (DND) and the military had nothing to do with the arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. maintained yesterday.
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[Title] => Marcos increases daily subsistence allowance for AFP personnel to P350
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