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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193956 [Title] => JDV says China to give relocation funds for Metro Manila squatters [Summary] => House Speaker Jose de Venecia said yesterday China has agreed to provide concessional financing to relocate 75,000 Metro Manila families squatting along the railroad tracks in the countrys largest-ever urban resettlement program.
De Venecia said he requested the Chinese government to put up $150 million for the program as part of the $800-million package to rebuild the Philippine railway infrastructure under the railways modernization program the Speaker conceived and which President Arroyo has endorsed.
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February 3, 2003 - 12:00am
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Senators challenged the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) to name the former Cabinet official who allegedly facilitated the grant of gaming licenses to Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) so as not to cast doubt on all other former members of the Cabinet.
17 hours ago
The bombshell revelation of Alejandro “Al” Tengco, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCor), may be likened to an improvised explosive device (IED) he triggered while he was still holding on to it. In a press statement he issued over the weekend, Tengco accused a certain former Cabinet official as allegedly “trying to intercede for POGOs,” or the Philippine Online Gaming Operators.
17 hours ago
Senator Win Gatchalian accused the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of “sleeping on the job” after thousands of SIM cards were found in raids of POGO hubs in Pasay, Bamban and Porac. The raiding teams from the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) tagged these supposedly POGO operations as hotbeds of illegal activities by foreign criminal syndicates victimizing people here and abroad. They give our country a bad international reputation.
17 hours ago
Veteran power energy executive Emmanuel Rubio is taking the reins at Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen) as its new president and CEO effective today.
17 hours ago
A former high-ranking government official tried to secure gaming licenses for several illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators that have recently been raided, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. said.
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