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[Title] => NGO raps cargo open skies pact
[Summary] => The Save Our Skies (SOS) movement, a non-government organization, has denounced the signing by the government of a cargo open skies agreement with Singapore, Thailand and Brunei, saying it was clouded with secrecy as aviation stakeholders were not consulted on the move.
"The signing of the agreement is the start of the death of the local aviation industry," said Robert Lim Joseph, president of SOS, which is made up of cargo forwarders as well as travel and tour operators.
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[Title] => Senators urged to keep off 'open skies' controversy
[Summary] => Sen. John Osmeña urged his colleagues yesterday to keep off the raging controversy on the so-called "open skies" policy.
He made the appeal in the wake of the threat of Sen. Joker Arroyo, who chairs a finance subcommittee, to freeze the nearly P10 billion 2004 budget of the Department of Transportation and Communications unless Secretary Leandro Mendoza removes Alberto Lim as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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[Title] => DOTC 2004 budget frozen
[Summary] => The Senate has decided to freeze the P10-billion 2004 budget of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) unless its agencies are purged of United States-funded "foreign agents."
Sen. Joker Arroyo, who chairs a finance subcommittee scrutinizing the DOTC outlay, made the decision in the wake of the refusal of Secretary Leandro Mendoza to remove Alberto Lim as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).
Mendoza was not present in the budget hearing but CAB executive director Tomas Mañalac was.
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[Title] => AGILE-DOF nagsabwatan vs Kongreso
[Summary] => Inakusahan kahapon ni Antique Rep. Exequiel Javier ang lobby group na Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity (AGILE) na nasa likod nang paninira sa Kongreso upang maisulong ang interes ng multinational cigarette companies.
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[Title] => Tour, travel operators oppose ‘open skies’
[Summary] => The country’s travel and tour operators have rallied behind the campaign to reject open skies, stressing that the government has to protect the local aviation and tourism industry.
The operators, who belong to the Network of Independent Travel Agencies (NITAS), the largest travel organization with 13 chapters nationwide, held their 2nd general membership meeting at the Grand Boulevard Hotel in Malate, Manila, last Thursday.
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[Title] => Travel, tour operators urge CAB official to quit
[Summary] => Travel and tour operators, and cargo forwarders have called for the immediate resignation of Alberto Lim from the board of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) for conflict of interest after it was found out the group that he founded was working to advance foreign interests in the civil aviation industry.
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[Title] => Recto opposes BIR abolition
[Summary] => Sen. Ralph Recto opposed yesterday the abolition of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and its replacement by the proposed National Revenue Authority, saying NARA wouldn’t mean higher tax collections.
"There is nothing in the bill creating NARA that guarantees that tax collection will rise," he said.
Recto‘s support for the measure is critical since the ways and means committee, which he chairs, is the panel that scrutinizes revenue-related proposals. His opposition to the bill means that NARA is headed for the graveyard.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => CHED urged to probe academics using schools to push ‘open skies’
[Summary] => The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) should look into the activities of some members of the academe who are key officials of an aviation lobby group to determine if they are using their position in schools to promote foreign interests in the country.
The call was made by the Save Our Skies (SOS) movement following admission by Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) president Mila Abad in the Senate that she and FFC officials receive financial support from the US-funded AGILE (Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity) program.
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[Title] => Solons urged to dig into open skies bills
[Summary] => The Save Our Skies (SOS) movement urged the Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday to thoroughly scrutinize bills calling for open skies or progressive liberalization following admission by the US-funded lobby group Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) that it drafted the open skies measure and assisted congressional committees.
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[Title] => Dismissal of government officials identified with AGILE-funded groups sought
[Summary] => The call of the Senate to eject all AGILE (Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity) representatives from government offices should also apply to public officials identified with AGILE-funded lobby groups like the Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC), according to an aviation industry group.
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INVESTMENT AND LIBERALIZATION
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[Title] => NGO raps cargo open skies pact
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"The signing of the agreement is the start of the death of the local aviation industry," said Robert Lim Joseph, president of SOS, which is made up of cargo forwarders as well as travel and tour operators.
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[Title] => Senators urged to keep off 'open skies' controversy
[Summary] => Sen. John Osmeña urged his colleagues yesterday to keep off the raging controversy on the so-called "open skies" policy.
He made the appeal in the wake of the threat of Sen. Joker Arroyo, who chairs a finance subcommittee, to freeze the nearly P10 billion 2004 budget of the Department of Transportation and Communications unless Secretary Leandro Mendoza removes Alberto Lim as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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[Title] => DOTC 2004 budget frozen
[Summary] => The Senate has decided to freeze the P10-billion 2004 budget of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) unless its agencies are purged of United States-funded "foreign agents."
Sen. Joker Arroyo, who chairs a finance subcommittee scrutinizing the DOTC outlay, made the decision in the wake of the refusal of Secretary Leandro Mendoza to remove Alberto Lim as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).
Mendoza was not present in the budget hearing but CAB executive director Tomas Mañalac was.
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[Summary] => Inakusahan kahapon ni Antique Rep. Exequiel Javier ang lobby group na Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity (AGILE) na nasa likod nang paninira sa Kongreso upang maisulong ang interes ng multinational cigarette companies.
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[Summary] => The country’s travel and tour operators have rallied behind the campaign to reject open skies, stressing that the government has to protect the local aviation and tourism industry.
The operators, who belong to the Network of Independent Travel Agencies (NITAS), the largest travel organization with 13 chapters nationwide, held their 2nd general membership meeting at the Grand Boulevard Hotel in Malate, Manila, last Thursday.
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[Summary] => Sen. Ralph Recto opposed yesterday the abolition of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and its replacement by the proposed National Revenue Authority, saying NARA wouldn’t mean higher tax collections.
"There is nothing in the bill creating NARA that guarantees that tax collection will rise," he said.
Recto‘s support for the measure is critical since the ways and means committee, which he chairs, is the panel that scrutinizes revenue-related proposals. His opposition to the bill means that NARA is headed for the graveyard.
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[Title] => CHED urged to probe academics using schools to push ‘open skies’
[Summary] => The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) should look into the activities of some members of the academe who are key officials of an aviation lobby group to determine if they are using their position in schools to promote foreign interests in the country.
The call was made by the Save Our Skies (SOS) movement following admission by Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) president Mila Abad in the Senate that she and FFC officials receive financial support from the US-funded AGILE (Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity) program.
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[Summary] => The call of the Senate to eject all AGILE (Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity) representatives from government offices should also apply to public officials identified with AGILE-funded lobby groups like the Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC), according to an aviation industry group.
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