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                    [Title] => Be a ‘RED’ for half a million
                    [Summary] => What government agency allegedly harasses many of its regional executive directors (REDs) to vacate their positions so as to eventually "sell" their posts? This government agency’s secretary and undersecretaries, our ear-spy overheard, have been allegedly selling plantilla positions, especially the highly-coveted Regional Executive Director’s post, for half a million pesos each. The strategy is to badger the regional executive directors to vacate their positions even if they are not yet up for retirement.
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                    [AuthorName] => S.A. Maguire
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                    [Title] => Southbound & back on the SuperFerry
                    [Summary] => In memory of Magenta, and on the staircase of SuperFerry 9 that plies the Manila-Dumaguete-Cagayan de Oro route, this sign can be read: Watch your steps. Also, on both starboard and portside is an advisory "not to leave baggages unattended."


Grammar quibbles aside, time was when riding on an inter-island vessel in our archipelago was a risky proposition. Indeed in the ’60s, most boats resembled floating coffins, and schedules of arrivals and departures were constantly changed without prior notice. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-06-29 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana
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                    [Title] => Aboitiz ups stake in agribusiness unit
                    [Summary] => A month after completing the buyout of its partners in shipping line William, Gothong and Aboitiz (WG&A), Cebu-based holding firm Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. (AEV) has similarly raised its stake in an agribusiness subsidiary Fil-Am Foods.


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                    [Title] => WG&A seeks P1-B loan to buy two ships
                    [Summary] => Listed shipping firm WG&A will borrow P1 billion from a consortium of banks to finance the acquisition of two new vessels to further improve its services to the commuting public.


In a disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission, WG&A chief financial officer Susan Valdez said the board authorized the corporation to secure a P1-billion loan from a syndicate of banks, headed by Citibank N.A.with the two new vessels to be acquired as collateral.


The board approved the purchase from Meimon Taiyo Co. Ltd. of Japan of two vessels for $16 million.


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                    [Title] => WG&A gets P600-M syndicated loan
                    [Summary] => Domestic shipping giant William, Gothong and Aboitiz (WG&A) Philippines has successfully closed a P600-million syndicated loan negotiation with the Development Bank of the Philippines under the Japan Export-Import Bank 4 facility. Theloan was arranged by UBP Capital and participated in by six financial institutions.


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                    [Title] => Shipping firm probed for man’s death
                    [Summary] => Western Police District investigators are looking into death of a man who was mauled to death allegedly by security personnel of a local shipping firm.


But according to detective Virgo Villareal, the mother of the victim, Roland Orian, had executed an affidavit of desistance absolving the 15th SFA Agency, the security group of William, Gothong and Aboitiz (WG&A) Shipping Lines, from any civil and criminal liability.


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                    [Title] => Homicide filed vs 3 guards for ship passenger’s slay
                    [Summary] => Police filed yesterday charges of homicide in the Manila Prosecutor’s Office against three security personnel  of a local shipping firm based in North Harbor, Manila for the death of a passenger whom they reportedly mauled after he created trouble while on board the ship.


Western Police District-Homicide Section investigator Detective Virgo Villareal identified the suspects as Delon Maslang, Vicente Suarez and a certain Sombillo, security personnel of the SuperFerry, owned and operated by William, Gothong and Aboitiz (WG&A) Shipping Lines.


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GOTHONG AND ABOITIZ

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Grammar quibbles aside, time was when riding on an inter-island vessel in our archipelago was a risky proposition. Indeed in the ’60s, most boats resembled floating coffins, and schedules of arrivals and departures were constantly changed without prior notice. 


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                    [Title] => WG&A seeks P1-B loan to buy two ships
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In a disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission, WG&A chief financial officer Susan Valdez said the board authorized the corporation to secure a P1-billion loan from a syndicate of banks, headed by Citibank N.A.with the two new vessels to be acquired as collateral.


The board approved the purchase from Meimon Taiyo Co. Ltd. of Japan of two vessels for $16 million.


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                    [Title] => WG&A gets P600-M syndicated loan
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                    [Title] => Shipping firm probed for man’s death
                    [Summary] => Western Police District investigators are looking into death of a man who was mauled to death allegedly by security personnel of a local shipping firm.


But according to detective Virgo Villareal, the mother of the victim, Roland Orian, had executed an affidavit of desistance absolving the 15th SFA Agency, the security group of William, Gothong and Aboitiz (WG&A) Shipping Lines, from any civil and criminal liability.


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                    [Title] => Homicide filed vs 3 guards for ship passenger’s slay
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Western Police District-Homicide Section investigator Detective Virgo Villareal identified the suspects as Delon Maslang, Vicente Suarez and a certain Sombillo, security personnel of the SuperFerry, owned and operated by William, Gothong and Aboitiz (WG&A) Shipping Lines.


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