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                    [ArticleID] => 635382
                    [Title] => DFA: Leaks affecting Phl
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WASHINGTON – Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo lamented the disclosure by WikiLeaks of more than 250,000 confidential US embassy cables and said “we will have to confront it.”

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 450159 [Title] => Unused RP chancery in US gets new lease on life [Summary] =>

The Philippine government has decided to shell out $250,000 (about P12 million) to spruce up an old, unused chancery in Washington that it has owned since the days of US colonialism.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 18660 [Title] => RP divesting properties in US [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 5043 [Title] => RP pays P1.6 M for idle chancery in Washington [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204458 [Title] => Sale of RP assets in US probed [Summary] => The Senate foreign relations committee will look into the reported plan of the Arroyo administration to sell valuable pieces of real estate owned by the country in the United States.

The inquiry was prompted by a resolution filed by Senate President Franklin Drilon, who said he is against the "fire sale" being planned by the administration.

"I am not in favor of selling these properties because most of these buildings actually earn income for the country or are self-sustaining. There is no need for a fire sale," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 151852 [Title] => BOT eyed in RP’s assets abroad [Summary] => High-priced government properties in Washington, D.C. and New York City will be developed with American partners on a build-operate-transfer arrangement, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.

Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Administration Franklin Ebdalin said yesterday the former Philippine Embassy chancellery on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington’s embassy row has a market value of more than $2 million.

"We want to offer it for development on a build-operate-transfer scheme," he said.
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