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[Title] => RP still a top biofuels market
[Summary] => The Philippines remains one of the most attractive markets for the development and sale of biofuels, an energy advisory ...
[DatePublished] => 2008-09-26 00:00:00
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[Title] => GMA welcomes coal-to-gasoline project
[Summary] => President Arroyo formally welcomed yesterday a $5-million joint venture between the Philippine government and one of the biggest energy corporations in the US to conduct a pilot project for a coal-to-gasoline conversion plant in the country.
In rites held at Malacañang Palace, President Arroyo gave her go-signal to a joint undertaking by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Headwaters Inc., billed by Forbes Magazine as the 2nd best corporation in the US.
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-09 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1
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[Title] => Bidding for Transco to start even without franchise bill
[Summary] => LAPU-LAPU CITY — President Arroyo ordered Energy Secretary Vicente Perez yesterday to immediately bid out the National Transmission Corp. without waiting for Congress to pass the Transco franchise bill.
The President disclosed her directive to Perez after she led the ceremonial groundbreaking here for the Cebu-Mactan interconnection project of Transco that will be built in Barangay Pusok.
The President said this $32.9-million project, funded by the Miyazawa Fund of Japan, is being undertaken by Transco led by its president, Allan Ortiz.
[DatePublished] => 2004-10-14 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804833
[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[Title] => ‘Amazing Race’ TV show comes to RP
[Summary] => The Philippines takes center stage starting tonight as one of the "pit stops" of the popular US reality television show the "The Amazing Race."
The first of two episodes shot earlier this year in Metro Manila and Palawan will air at 8 o’clock tonight over cable channel AXN. The second episode will air next Wednesday.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-15 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[Title] => Austerity woes: RP maids in HK,GMA party grouse
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Measures to reduce government expenses are being greeted with frustration, if not outright anger, by sectors at the receiving end of the Arroyo administration’s austerity campaign.
In Hong Kong, Filipino domestic helpers have expressed anger over a proposal to close the Philippine consulate on Sundays, the only free day for many of them.
Hong Kong’s thousands of Filipino maids work six days a week, and they viewed as a major victory the opening of the consulate on Sundays two years ago.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => GMA seeks DOJ opinion on Napocor privatization
[Summary] => President Arroyo has asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to render an opinion on whether a law is needed to facilitate the privatization of the transmission assets of the National Power Corp. (Napocor).
The President sought a legal opinion on the matter from the DOJ after several legislators opined that the existing Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) already provides for the transfer of all of Napocor’s transmission assets to the National Transmission Corp. (Transco).
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-30 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1500820
[AuthorName] => Marvin Sy
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[Title] => Arroyo endorses 5 energy bills
[Summary] => President Arroyo endorsed yesterday to the 13th Congress for immediate passage into law five proposed energy independence and savings bills to lessen the country’s dependence on imported crude oil.
The recent round of increase in crude oil prices, which now reaches more than $46 per barrel in the world market, triggered corresponding increases in domestic prices of gasoline and other refined oil products.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => Oil deregulation law suspension proposed
[Summary] => Organized labor pressed yesterday for the suspension of the oil price deregulation law to prevent the further rise in the prices of petroleum products and other essential commodities.
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the country’s largest labor union, expressed alarm over the rising prices of petroleum products. The latest round of oil price hikes, announced last Sunday, was the sixth or seventh this year.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-07 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
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[Title] => Arroyo to visit China in September
[Summary] => President Arroyo has accepted an invitation to make an official visit to China next month to attend a meeting of Asian leaders.
The President’s attendance at the International Conference of Asian Political Parties, to be held from Sept. 3 to 5 in Beijing, would be her first trip abroad since her new term began last June 30.
The President had visited China twice during her first three years in office. The first was during her attendance at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Council Leaders’ Summit in 2002 and the second was during her state visit.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => Crude oil levy increased to 5 percent
[Summary] => President Arroyo has reportedly signed a "midnight" executive order (EO) raising the levy on imported crude oil to five percent from the current rate of three percent.
The EO was signed last July 23, three days before the 13th Congress started its first regular session. The Constitution provides that the President can exercise legislative powers to raise taxes while Congress is not in session.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-01 00:00:00
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