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                    [Title] => Negros Occ guv sues mayor for libel
                    [Summary] => 
Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. yesterday filed libel charges against Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno Peña before the City Prosecutor’s Office in this city.

                    [DatePublished] => 2013-04-17 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Danny B. Dangcalan
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                    [Title] => Jobs await workers  in Australia - envoy
                    [Summary] => 
The government of the Northern Territory of Australia has sent a  diplomatic mission to Negros Occidental to source out skilled workers  and look for investment potentials here, including a retirement haven  for its citizens.
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                    [Title] => Tañon Strait oil exploration stirs Negrenses
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                    [AuthorName] => Rolly Espina
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                    [Title] => Cloud-seeding waters Negros Occidental
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For the past few days, cloud-seeding operations in Negros Occidental have induced rain over the drying farmlands. And brought down temperatures. So that by yesterday, provincial agriculturist Igmedio Tabiana said the early onset of rainfall has solved the dry spell.


Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon ordered a temporary cessation of the aerial seeding of rain clouds to allow festival goers to enjoy the highlights of the Panaad Festival at the Panaad Park and Satisum in Barangay Mansilingan.


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                    [Title] => No hunger strike in Negros
                    [Summary] => 



LA CASTELLANA, Negros Occidental – Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman flew to Bacolod City Thursday to personally check on the information that a group of farmers were on hunger strike.


However,  his field officers found that there were no picket lines or starving farmers in the area.


The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) was ready to ship food and medicine to Hacienda Velez-Malaga in Barangay Malaga here after Malacañang received information about the hunger strike.


                    [DatePublished] => 2007-03-18 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1096446
                    [AuthorName] =>  Antonieta Lopez
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                    [Title] => Negros gov to meet with rebel leader
                    [Summary] => 



BACOLOD CITY — Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon and priest-turned-rebel leader Frank Fernandez will meet soon to discuss possible "cooperation in the interest of the masses."


Marañon said Fernandez has sent him text messages expressing his willingness to dialogue with him on matters involving the development of the province.


Marañon is optimistic that the dialogue would benefit the province, saying, "I believe that we cannot have economic prosperity without peace." 


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                    [Title] => CBCP head asks faithful: Take a stand vs people’s initiative
                    [Summary] => Actually, it was not unexpected. But the timing was just perfect. Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo’s pastoral letter urging the faithful to buck the people’s initiative on Charter change and battling for a constitutional convention was read in all parish churches all over Negros Occidental and Panay.


That came just after Speaker Jose de Venecia stormed in on Iloilo and urged the citizens to back the people’s initiative for Charter change.


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                    [Title] => Negros Occidental agrarian reform committee calls for review of CARP
                    [Summary] => BACOLOD CITY — The Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee of Negros Occidental has joined the call of various sectors for a review of the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the province.


Eduardo Padroña, who chairs the committee, said that while CARP has alleviated the lives of farmer-beneficiaries, a significant number have failed because of lack of support services and capital to sustain the productivity of their lands.


                    [DatePublished] => 2006-09-02 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Is oil still oozing from the sunken tanker off Guimaras?
                    [Summary] => There is no doubt about it. Although officials claim that only 100,000 liters of bunker fuel had been spilled in the Guimaras Strait by tanker Solar I, it now appears that the vessel continues to spout oil from its hull. Or wherever it may emanate.


Daily, it now appears that the seepage of the deadly viscous fluid from the sea bottom continues to spread, indicating that only a speedy salvage operation can stem the further outflow of the bunker fuel.


                    [DatePublished] => 2006-08-19 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Some Negros LGUs buck STL; Church braces for campaign
                    [Summary] => Even while Church authorities were still girding to campaign against the small town lottery of the Philippine Charity and Sweepstakes Office, several local government officials of Negros Occidental bucked the proposal to introduce it in their respective jurisdictions.


But the reality is that Manapla Mayor Manuel Escalante, president of the Negros Association of Chief Executives, said majority of the 32 mayors of the province are set to pass resolutions endorsing STL starting next week.


                    [DatePublished] => 2006-06-10 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1771372
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JOSEPH MARA

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                    [Title] => Jobs await workers  in Australia - envoy
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                    [Title] => Cloud-seeding waters Negros Occidental
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For the past few days, cloud-seeding operations in Negros Occidental have induced rain over the drying farmlands. And brought down temperatures. So that by yesterday, provincial agriculturist Igmedio Tabiana said the early onset of rainfall has solved the dry spell.


Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon ordered a temporary cessation of the aerial seeding of rain clouds to allow festival goers to enjoy the highlights of the Panaad Festival at the Panaad Park and Satisum in Barangay Mansilingan.


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                    [Title] => No hunger strike in Negros
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LA CASTELLANA, Negros Occidental – Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman flew to Bacolod City Thursday to personally check on the information that a group of farmers were on hunger strike.


However,  his field officers found that there were no picket lines or starving farmers in the area.


The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) was ready to ship food and medicine to Hacienda Velez-Malaga in Barangay Malaga here after Malacañang received information about the hunger strike.


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                    [Title] => Negros gov to meet with rebel leader
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BACOLOD CITY — Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon and priest-turned-rebel leader Frank Fernandez will meet soon to discuss possible "cooperation in the interest of the masses."


Marañon said Fernandez has sent him text messages expressing his willingness to dialogue with him on matters involving the development of the province.


Marañon is optimistic that the dialogue would benefit the province, saying, "I believe that we cannot have economic prosperity without peace." 


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                    [Title] => CBCP head asks faithful: Take a stand vs people’s initiative
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That came just after Speaker Jose de Venecia stormed in on Iloilo and urged the citizens to back the people’s initiative for Charter change.


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                    [Title] => Negros Occidental agrarian reform committee calls for review of CARP
                    [Summary] => BACOLOD CITY — The Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee of Negros Occidental has joined the call of various sectors for a review of the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the province.


Eduardo Padroña, who chairs the committee, said that while CARP has alleviated the lives of farmer-beneficiaries, a significant number have failed because of lack of support services and capital to sustain the productivity of their lands.


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                    [Title] => Is oil still oozing from the sunken tanker off Guimaras?
                    [Summary] => There is no doubt about it. Although officials claim that only 100,000 liters of bunker fuel had been spilled in the Guimaras Strait by tanker Solar I, it now appears that the vessel continues to spout oil from its hull. Or wherever it may emanate.


Daily, it now appears that the seepage of the deadly viscous fluid from the sea bottom continues to spread, indicating that only a speedy salvage operation can stem the further outflow of the bunker fuel.


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                    [Title] => Some Negros LGUs buck STL; Church braces for campaign
                    [Summary] => Even while Church authorities were still girding to campaign against the small town lottery of the Philippine Charity and Sweepstakes Office, several local government officials of Negros Occidental bucked the proposal to introduce it in their respective jurisdictions.


But the reality is that Manapla Mayor Manuel Escalante, president of the Negros Association of Chief Executives, said majority of the 32 mayors of the province are set to pass resolutions endorsing STL starting next week.


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