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                    [Title] => NFA urged to set up palay buying stations near farms
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As rice farmers harvest their third quarter produce, food security advocates are urging the National Food Authority (NFA) to step up its palay or paddy rice procurement by putting up buying stations near farm areas.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 362913 [Title] => Senate to repackage DepEd’s P4-B feeding program [Summary] => The Senate would be pushing for a change in the composition of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) P4 billion school feeding program from rice to milk and noodles.

Senate committee on finance chairman Franklin Drilon and Sen. Edgardo Angara expressed their belief that the use of rice for the school feeding program would not benefit the children, who are the intended beneficiaries.

After hearing the proposed budget of the DepEd for 2007, Drilon noted that out of the P4 billion allocated for school feeding program, P3.9 billion would be for the purchase of rice. [DatePublished] => 2006-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359306 [Title] => SC orders Sabio freed by Senate [Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) allowed Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chairman Camilo Sabio to go home yesterday after more than a week of detention at the Senate and said it will rule on the issues involving the Philippine Communications Satellite Corp. (Philcomsat) in 45 days.

Sabio was arrested and detained last week by the Senate for refusing to appear at an inquiry into the alleged anomalous losses of the Philcomsat and other sequestered companies.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198886 [Title] => Keep BSP chief in AMLC – Barbers [Summary] => Sen. Robert Barbers urged his colleagues yesterday to keep the governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in the three-member Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) for better implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA).

"I am not in favor of the idea of excluding the BSP governor in the AMLC because removing him will render the council ineffective. The BSP chief’s membership is a significant component of the AMLC," Barbers said.

He said the BSP is the government’s regulator on monetary and fiscal matters.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => NFA urged to set up palay buying stations near farms
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As rice farmers harvest their third quarter produce, food security advocates are urging the National Food Authority (NFA) to step up its palay or paddy rice procurement by putting up buying stations near farm areas.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805266 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 362913 [Title] => Senate to repackage DepEd’s P4-B feeding program [Summary] => The Senate would be pushing for a change in the composition of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) P4 billion school feeding program from rice to milk and noodles.

Senate committee on finance chairman Franklin Drilon and Sen. Edgardo Angara expressed their belief that the use of rice for the school feeding program would not benefit the children, who are the intended beneficiaries.

After hearing the proposed budget of the DepEd for 2007, Drilon noted that out of the P4 billion allocated for school feeding program, P3.9 billion would be for the purchase of rice. [DatePublished] => 2006-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 359306 [Title] => SC orders Sabio freed by Senate [Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) allowed Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chairman Camilo Sabio to go home yesterday after more than a week of detention at the Senate and said it will rule on the issues involving the Philippine Communications Satellite Corp. (Philcomsat) in 45 days.

Sabio was arrested and detained last week by the Senate for refusing to appear at an inquiry into the alleged anomalous losses of the Philcomsat and other sequestered companies.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198886 [Title] => Keep BSP chief in AMLC – Barbers [Summary] => Sen. Robert Barbers urged his colleagues yesterday to keep the governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in the three-member Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) for better implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA).

"I am not in favor of the idea of excluding the BSP governor in the AMLC because removing him will render the council ineffective. The BSP chief’s membership is a significant component of the AMLC," Barbers said.

He said the BSP is the government’s regulator on monetary and fiscal matters.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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