Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 105009
                    [Title] => Villarama encouraged to vie for Bulacan governor in 2001
                    [Summary] => Former Bulacan Gov. Ignacio Santiago has urged Willie Villa-rama to run for the gubernatorial post in the province in the May 2001 elections.


Villarama, who was Santiago’s vice governor for eight consecutive years, was also reportedly being pressured by his supporters to run for the congressional seat for the second district of Bulacan.


"I have urged former Vice Gov. Willie Villarama to run for governor and lead Bulacan to greater prosperity in the new decade," Ignacio said in a statement.


                    [DatePublished] => 2000-12-18 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Nation
                    [SectionUrl] => nation
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 87526
                    [Title] => Senate prepares for Frank's takeover
                    [Summary] => 

The Senate will hold a caucus today to finalize the details for the turnover of
the chamber's leadership from Senate President Blas Ople to Senate Majority
Leader Franklin Drilon.

Drilon's assumption of the post in accordance with a power-sharing agreement
with Ople is already assured with a majority of the senators signing a
resolution in support of Drilon.

While Drilon's ascendancy is certain, a new hitch has developed in the choice
of the majority leader and chairman of the foreign relations committee under
the Drilon administration.

Sen.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-04-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 87286
                    [Title] => 'Release
                    [Summary] => Gulf War claims'

Senate President Blas Ople is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to
facilitate the payment of some P34.5 million in Gulf War claims which a DFA
official, he said, has allegedly kept in a bank deposit to earn interest.

Ople said the fund was released by the United Nations to the Philippine
government through the Philippine Claims and Compensation Committee (PCCC).

He said Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon has directed the DFA official
to go on leave after initial reports showed that the Gulf War fund has, indeed,
been earning in
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-03-27 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1650428
                    [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 95179
                    [Title] => Probe of foreign survey firms sought
                    [Summary] => 

Pollsters or provocateurs?

Senate President Blas Ople called yesterday for an inquiry into the operation
of fo-reign survey firms in the country to determine if they violate the
constitutional provision reserving ownership of mass media to Filipinos.

In a resolution, Ople cited the survey group HB&A whose recent opinion poll
conducted in Metro Manila showed that if snap elections were held today,
Pre-sident Estrada would lose by a wide margin to Vice President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo or Sen.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-03-03 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 94645
                    [Title] => Osmeña willing to give back post to Ople
                    [Summary] => 

Senate President Pro Tempore John Osmeña said yesterday that he would
most willingly give back his post to Senate President Blas Ople once the latter
yields his post to Senate Majority Leader Franklin Drilon.

Ople, the former Senate President Pro Tempore, has confirmed that he will
relinquish the top Senate position to Drilon on April 17 in accordance with a
gentlemen's agreement forged at Malacañang last July.

Osmeña said that he was merely holding the No.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-02-01 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 94516
                    [Title] => Ople opposes lifting of bank law
                    [Summary] => 

Senate President Blas Ople opposed yesterday renewed proposals to lift the Bank
Secrecy Law, saying this would create mistrust and harm the country's image as
an Asian Switzerland.

"Government policy must be to encourage more Filipinos to save and put their
money in banks, not scare them and prompt them to hoard their money under
pillows," he said.

Presidential Spokesman Fernando Barican has announced that Malacañang
was seeking an amendment to the law to allow supervisors access to "vital
information under certain circumstances."

The amendment would empower the B
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-01-23 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1297981
                    [AuthorName] => Efren Danao
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 86854
                    [Title] => Bicameral panel to oversee VFA activities
                    [Summary] => 

Congress would closely oversee and monitor the im-plementation of the
Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), particularly on national
security and defense matters, Senate President Blas Ople said yesterday.

The first joint military exercises under the VFA, dubbed as "Balikatan," are
scheduled to take place early next month at Subic, Clark and Fort Magsaysay in
Nueva Ecija, as well as at Sangley Point in Cavite and the Western Command in
Palawan.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-01-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

        )

)

SENATE PRESIDENT BLAS OPLE

Array
(
    [results] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 105009
                    [Title] => Villarama encouraged to vie for Bulacan governor in 2001
                    [Summary] => Former Bulacan Gov. Ignacio Santiago has urged Willie Villa-rama to run for the gubernatorial post in the province in the May 2001 elections.


Villarama, who was Santiago’s vice governor for eight consecutive years, was also reportedly being pressured by his supporters to run for the congressional seat for the second district of Bulacan.


"I have urged former Vice Gov. Willie Villarama to run for governor and lead Bulacan to greater prosperity in the new decade," Ignacio said in a statement.


                    [DatePublished] => 2000-12-18 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Nation
                    [SectionUrl] => nation
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 87526
                    [Title] => Senate prepares for Frank's takeover
                    [Summary] => 

The Senate will hold a caucus today to finalize the details for the turnover of
the chamber's leadership from Senate President Blas Ople to Senate Majority
Leader Franklin Drilon.

Drilon's assumption of the post in accordance with a power-sharing agreement
with Ople is already assured with a majority of the senators signing a
resolution in support of Drilon.

While Drilon's ascendancy is certain, a new hitch has developed in the choice
of the majority leader and chairman of the foreign relations committee under
the Drilon administration.

Sen.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-04-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 87286
                    [Title] => 'Release
                    [Summary] => Gulf War claims'

Senate President Blas Ople is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to
facilitate the payment of some P34.5 million in Gulf War claims which a DFA
official, he said, has allegedly kept in a bank deposit to earn interest.

Ople said the fund was released by the United Nations to the Philippine
government through the Philippine Claims and Compensation Committee (PCCC).

He said Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon has directed the DFA official
to go on leave after initial reports showed that the Gulf War fund has, indeed,
been earning in
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-03-27 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1650428
                    [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 95179
                    [Title] => Probe of foreign survey firms sought
                    [Summary] => 

Pollsters or provocateurs?

Senate President Blas Ople called yesterday for an inquiry into the operation
of fo-reign survey firms in the country to determine if they violate the
constitutional provision reserving ownership of mass media to Filipinos.

In a resolution, Ople cited the survey group HB&A whose recent opinion poll
conducted in Metro Manila showed that if snap elections were held today,
Pre-sident Estrada would lose by a wide margin to Vice President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo or Sen.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-03-03 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 94645
                    [Title] => Osmeña willing to give back post to Ople
                    [Summary] => 

Senate President Pro Tempore John Osmeña said yesterday that he would
most willingly give back his post to Senate President Blas Ople once the latter
yields his post to Senate Majority Leader Franklin Drilon.

Ople, the former Senate President Pro Tempore, has confirmed that he will
relinquish the top Senate position to Drilon on April 17 in accordance with a
gentlemen's agreement forged at Malacañang last July.

Osmeña said that he was merely holding the No.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-02-01 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 94516
                    [Title] => Ople opposes lifting of bank law
                    [Summary] => 

Senate President Blas Ople opposed yesterday renewed proposals to lift the Bank
Secrecy Law, saying this would create mistrust and harm the country's image as
an Asian Switzerland.

"Government policy must be to encourage more Filipinos to save and put their
money in banks, not scare them and prompt them to hoard their money under
pillows," he said.

Presidential Spokesman Fernando Barican has announced that Malacañang
was seeking an amendment to the law to allow supervisors access to "vital
information under certain circumstances."

The amendment would empower the B
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-01-23 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1297981
                    [AuthorName] => Efren Danao
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 86854
                    [Title] => Bicameral panel to oversee VFA activities
                    [Summary] => 

Congress would closely oversee and monitor the im-plementation of the
Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), particularly on national
security and defense matters, Senate President Blas Ople said yesterday.

The first joint military exercises under the VFA, dubbed as "Balikatan," are
scheduled to take place early next month at Subic, Clark and Fort Magsaysay in
Nueva Ecija, as well as at Sangley Point in Cavite and the Western Command in
Palawan.
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-01-16 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => 
                )

        )

)

abtest

Villarama encouraged to vie for Bulacan governor in 2001

December 18, 2000 - 12:00am

Former Bulacan Gov. Ignacio Santiago has urged Willie Villa-rama to run for the gubernatorial post in the province in the May 2001 elections. Villarama, who was Santiago’s vice governor for eight consecutive...

Nation

Senate prepares for Frank's takeover

April 10, 2000 - 12:00am

The Senate will hold a caucus today to finalize the details for the turnover of the chamber's leadership from Senate President Blas Ople to Senate Majority Leader Franklin Drilon. Drilon's assumption of the...

Headlines

'Release

By Perseus Echeminada | March 27, 2000 - 12:00am

Gulf War claims' Senate President Blas Ople is urging the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to facilitate the payment of some P34.5 million in Gulf War claims which a DFA official, he said, has allegedly kept...

Headlines

Probe of foreign survey firms sought

March 3, 2000 - 12:00am

Pollsters or provocateurs? Senate President Blas Ople called yesterday for an inquiry into the operation of fo-reign survey firms in the country to determine if they violate the constitutional provision reserving...

Headlines

Osmeña willing to give back post to Ople

February 1, 2000 - 12:00am

Senate President Pro Tempore John Osmeña said yesterday that he would most willingly give back his post to Senate President Blas Ople once the latter yields his post to Senate Majority Leader Franklin...

Headlines

Ople opposes lifting of bank law

By Efren Danao | January 23, 2000 - 12:00am

Senate President Blas Ople opposed yesterday renewed proposals to lift the Bank Secrecy Law, saying this would create mistrust and harm the country's image as an Asian Switzerland. "Government policy must be...

Headlines

Bicameral panel to oversee VFA activities

January 16, 2000 - 12:00am

Congress would closely oversee and monitor the im-plementation of the Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), particularly on national security and defense matters, Senate President Blas Ople said yesterday. The...

Headlines