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                    [Title] => Erap denies misdeclaring assets
                    [Summary] => Ousted President Joseph Estrada testified in court yesterday that the money held in private accounts that he allegedly failed to report on his 1999 statement of assets and liabilities (SAL) consisted of legitimate campaign contributions.


As he underwent cross-examination during his plunder trial before a special division of the Sandiganbayan, the 69-year-old Estrada dismissed as politically motivated charges he amassed about P4 billion from illegal gambling payoffs, tax kickbacks and commissions.


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                    [Title] => Singapore’s Keppel to fully absorb RP maritime unit
                    [Summary] => KS Investments Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned unit of Singapore’s Keppel Corp. Ltd., has made a general offer to acquire 70.53 percent of Keppel Philippines Marine Inc. (KPMI) for P1.407 billion ($27.4 million).


KS Investments, which already owns 29.47 percent of KPMI, said  the general offer is part of the group’s program to consolidate its regional investments in the marine industry.


Keppel said the transaction is not expected to have any material impact on its earnings per share or on net tangible assets Ltd. share for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2006.


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                    [Title] => Keppel Group completes sale of Keppel Bank (Phils) to GE Consumer Finance
                    [Summary] => The Keppel Group of Singapore completed Tuesday the sale of its 96.5-percent stake in Keppel Bank Philippines Inc. (KBP) to GE Consumer Finance (GECF), the global consumer lending unit of the General Electric Co. 


GECF acquired 23.406 million shares in KBP from Keppel Bank from Keppel Corp. Ltd. and Keppel Philippines Holdings Inc. for P1.45 billion.


The move is part of the group’s strategy to divest its non-core assets.


The Keppel Group is engaged in offshore and marine, property and infrastructure businesses with global footprint in 27 countries.  


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                    [Title] => GE unit buys Keppel Bank-RP for P1.45B
                    [Summary] => The Keppel Group of Singapore has sold its 96.5 percent stake in Keppel Bank Philippines Inc. (KBP) to GE Consumer Finance (GECF), the global consumer lending unit of  General Electric Co., for P1.45 billion.


In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Keppel said it has reached agreement with GECF to sell its 23.406 million shares in KBP as part of its strategy to divest its non-core assets.


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                    [Title] => Banks OK Steelcorp rehab plan
                    [Summary] => Major local banks and multilateral agencies reaffirmed their trust and confidence in the viability of market leader Steel Corp. of the Philippines (SCP) as an 11-member syndicate of local and foreign creditors approved the company’s financial rehabilitation and debts rescheduling program.


Officials of SCP and representatives of the creditors’ syndicate led by Equitable PCI Bank, successfully concluded on Aug. 28, SCP’s 12-year restructuring program, ending two years of intense negotiations.


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                    [Title] => Chinese trader binoga, napatay ng 5 holdaper
                    [Summary] => Isang negosyanteng Intsik ang binaril at napatay ng limang hindi pa nakikilalang holdaper kamakalawa ng hapon sa tapat ng isang bangko sa Banawe St., Quezon City. Patay na nang idating sa National Orthopedic Hospital ang biktima na nakilalang si Thomas Po, 46, ng Sct. Alcaraz St., ng naturang lungsod sanhi ng tinamo nitong dalawang tama ng bala ng baril sa katawan.
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                    [Title] => Car dealer gets instant millions
                    [Summary] => The amount was bigger than any Megalotto jackpot, and laying claim to it was perhaps just as scary.


A car dealer in Quezon City withdrew P200 from an automated teller machine (ATM) under his one-year-old son’s savings account, and the transaction indicated that the money left was over a hundred million pesos.
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                    [Title] => Banker confirms Erap’s P44-M account in ’98
                    [Summary] => Government prosecutors have accused deposed President Joseph Estrada of perjury for not declaring a bank account in his 1998 financial statement when he was president as required by law.


According to bank official Renato Balatbat, who took the witness stand for the prosecution yesterday, Estrada opened a Keppel Bank account on Aug. 10, 1990, when he was still a senator.


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                    [Title] => Erap to undergo eye treatment in RP
                    [Summary] => Ousted President Joseph Estrada will be allowed to leave his place of detention at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City tomorrow to consult an eye doctor in Makati City.


Associate Justice Anacleto Badoy, chairman of the Sandiganbayan’s third division, issued the order yesterday allowing Estrada, who told the court he might require eye surgery, to undergo an eye examination at the Asian Eye Institute in Rockwell Center and stay there the whole day.


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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Score one for Erap
                    [Summary] => Had it been another justice, it would be easy to suspect something sinister in the minor court victory of Joseph Estrada this week at the Sandiganbayan.
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                    [Title] => Erap denies misdeclaring assets
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As he underwent cross-examination during his plunder trial before a special division of the Sandiganbayan, the 69-year-old Estrada dismissed as politically motivated charges he amassed about P4 billion from illegal gambling payoffs, tax kickbacks and commissions.


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KS Investments, which already owns 29.47 percent of KPMI, said  the general offer is part of the group’s program to consolidate its regional investments in the marine industry.


Keppel said the transaction is not expected to have any material impact on its earnings per share or on net tangible assets Ltd. share for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2006.


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                    [Title] => Keppel Group completes sale of Keppel Bank (Phils) to GE Consumer Finance
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GECF acquired 23.406 million shares in KBP from Keppel Bank from Keppel Corp. Ltd. and Keppel Philippines Holdings Inc. for P1.45 billion.


The move is part of the group’s strategy to divest its non-core assets.


The Keppel Group is engaged in offshore and marine, property and infrastructure businesses with global footprint in 27 countries.  


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                    [Title] => GE unit buys Keppel Bank-RP for P1.45B
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In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Keppel said it has reached agreement with GECF to sell its 23.406 million shares in KBP as part of its strategy to divest its non-core assets.


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                    [Title] => Banks OK Steelcorp rehab plan
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Officials of SCP and representatives of the creditors’ syndicate led by Equitable PCI Bank, successfully concluded on Aug. 28, SCP’s 12-year restructuring program, ending two years of intense negotiations.


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                    [Title] => Chinese trader binoga, napatay ng 5 holdaper
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                    [Title] => Car dealer gets instant millions
                    [Summary] => The amount was bigger than any Megalotto jackpot, and laying claim to it was perhaps just as scary.


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                    [Title] => Banker confirms Erap’s P44-M account in ’98
                    [Summary] => Government prosecutors have accused deposed President Joseph Estrada of perjury for not declaring a bank account in his 1998 financial statement when he was president as required by law.


According to bank official Renato Balatbat, who took the witness stand for the prosecution yesterday, Estrada opened a Keppel Bank account on Aug. 10, 1990, when he was still a senator.


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                    [Title] => Erap to undergo eye treatment in RP
                    [Summary] => Ousted President Joseph Estrada will be allowed to leave his place of detention at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City tomorrow to consult an eye doctor in Makati City.


Associate Justice Anacleto Badoy, chairman of the Sandiganbayan’s third division, issued the order yesterday allowing Estrada, who told the court he might require eye surgery, to undergo an eye examination at the Asian Eye Institute in Rockwell Center and stay there the whole day.


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