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 It would have been interesting to find out who will eventually blink in the standoff between Shell and the Bureau of Customs. Here we see a company nourished into arrogance by oil dependence and an agency that is not exactly a paragon of honesty.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 547928 [Title] => EDITORIAL - How to lose investors [Summary] =>

Foreign investors have long complained about the arbitrariness of policies governing business in this country.

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MANILA, Philippines -- Militant transport group Piston will launch a strike in Metro Manila and selected regions in the country next Monday, July 13, to protest the Department of Transportation and Communications' order to substantially increase traffic violation fines.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-10 11:58:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1262583 [AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 410070 [Title] => Senators urge oil firms to implement big rollback [Summary] =>

Senators called on oil companies again yesterday to give the public a one-time, big-time rollback on pump prices, following ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388940 [Title] => LPG prices drop [Summary] => Petron Corp., the country’s largest oil refiner, rolled back yesterday the price of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or cooking gas products by 50 centavos per kilogram.

Caltex also cut the price of its LPG by 56 centavos per kilogram effective midnight yesterday.

Other large LPG suppliers – Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., Chevron Philippines Inc., and Total Philippines Inc. – had yet to follow Petron and Caltex’s move as of press time.
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Combined operatives of the Western Police District and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) were deployed around the vicinity of the Pandacan oil depot the other night following intelligence reports that the facility was being targeted for attacks by terrorists.

However, police officials denied yesterday there was a threat to bomb the depot, saying the presence of a few cops was just part of an anti-terror exercise.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1546326 [AuthorName] => Nestor Etolle [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204278 [Title] => Manila gives ultimatum to oil firms [Summary] => Pilipinas Shell, Petron and Caltex have until midnight tonight to scale down their operations in Pandacan or be declared as doing business illegally, Manila Mayor Lito Atienza said yesterday.

"We gave (the oil firms) a six-month extension under our (memorandum of) understanding and another three months… but they have not shown genuine effort and sincerity to comply with the commitments," Atienza said in a statement.

"By midnight (of) April 30, the three oil firms in Pandacan would not anymore be operating legally," he added.
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This was the tone raised by Philippine Sports Commission chairman Eric Buhain to the NSAs the other day following a recent budget cut which, he said, might seriously affect the welfare of the close to 800 national athletes.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161909 [Title] => Oil firms to vacate Pandacan [Summary] => Oil firms have agreed to vacate Pandacan depot in Manila before the June 30 deadline for the phase out set by the city government, Mayor Lito Atienza said yesterday.

Atienza said Shell, Petron and Caltex, known as the "Big 3," have started removing some of their facilities more than a month before the deadline of the transfer next month.

"The good news is that the Big 3 have started removing some of their facilities," said the mayor about the compliance of the oil firms to leave the depot in Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
PETRON AND CALTEX
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                    [Title] => No missing you if you go
                    [Summary] => 

 It would have been interesting to find out who will eventually blink in the standoff between Shell and the Bureau of Customs. Here we see a company nourished into arrogance by oil dependence and an agency that is not exactly a paragon of honesty.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 547928 [Title] => EDITORIAL - How to lose investors [Summary] =>

Foreign investors have long complained about the arbitrariness of policies governing business in this country.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3497/startoonthumb.gif ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 490928 [Title] => Transport group mulls another strike [Summary] => MANILA, Philippines -- A transport group has warned it would stage another major transport strike in protest of the latest oil price hike. [DatePublished] => 2009-07-29 12:17:44 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1271825 [AuthorName] => Dino Maragay [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 485185 [Title] => Transport strike set on July 13 in Metro Manila, other regions [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines -- Militant transport group Piston will launch a strike in Metro Manila and selected regions in the country next Monday, July 13, to protest the Department of Transportation and Communications' order to substantially increase traffic violation fines.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-10 11:58:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1262583 [AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 410070 [Title] => Senators urge oil firms to implement big rollback [Summary] =>

Senators called on oil companies again yesterday to give the public a one-time, big-time rollback on pump prices, following ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388940 [Title] => LPG prices drop [Summary] => Petron Corp., the country’s largest oil refiner, rolled back yesterday the price of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or cooking gas products by 50 centavos per kilogram.

Caltex also cut the price of its LPG by 56 centavos per kilogram effective midnight yesterday.

Other large LPG suppliers – Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., Chevron Philippines Inc., and Total Philippines Inc. – had yet to follow Petron and Caltex’s move as of press time.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 218314 [Title] => Red alert at Pandacan oil depot? [Summary] => Terror threat or training exercise?

Combined operatives of the Western Police District and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) were deployed around the vicinity of the Pandacan oil depot the other night following intelligence reports that the facility was being targeted for attacks by terrorists.

However, police officials denied yesterday there was a threat to bomb the depot, saying the presence of a few cops was just part of an anti-terror exercise.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1546326 [AuthorName] => Nestor Etolle [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204278 [Title] => Manila gives ultimatum to oil firms [Summary] => Pilipinas Shell, Petron and Caltex have until midnight tonight to scale down their operations in Pandacan or be declared as doing business illegally, Manila Mayor Lito Atienza said yesterday.

"We gave (the oil firms) a six-month extension under our (memorandum of) understanding and another three months… but they have not shown genuine effort and sincerity to comply with the commitments," Atienza said in a statement.

"By midnight (of) April 30, the three oil firms in Pandacan would not anymore be operating legally," he added.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200103 [Title] => Low budget to force NSAs to tap donors [Summary] => Unless they’re willing to do more with less, the various national sports associations will, sooner or later, have to look for their own source of funds in order to keep their athletes fit, able, willing and ready for local and international competitions.

This was the tone raised by Philippine Sports Commission chairman Eric Buhain to the NSAs the other day following a recent budget cut which, he said, might seriously affect the welfare of the close to 800 national athletes.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161909 [Title] => Oil firms to vacate Pandacan [Summary] => Oil firms have agreed to vacate Pandacan depot in Manila before the June 30 deadline for the phase out set by the city government, Mayor Lito Atienza said yesterday.

Atienza said Shell, Petron and Caltex, known as the "Big 3," have started removing some of their facilities more than a month before the deadline of the transfer next month.

"The good news is that the Big 3 have started removing some of their facilities," said the mayor about the compliance of the oil firms to leave the depot in Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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