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                    [ArticleID] => 1436762
                    [Title] => No talks for 3rd party takeover of John Hay – BCDA
                    [Summary] => 

The state-run Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) remains focused on taking possession of the former American rest and recreation facility.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20150324/Arnel-Paciano-1.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369417 [Title] => Gov’t expects MILF peace talks to resume soon [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza is optimistic that the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would resume soon.

The talks were stalled last September because of the highly contentious ancestral domain issue.

"I am very positive on the resumption of the peace talks… It would hopefully be soon," Dureza said, adding that a new proposal from chief negotiator Silvestre Afable III on how to solve the thorny issue has been sent to the MILF.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 366076 [Title] => Gonzales: Consider charges against MILF chief dropped [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Consider them dropped.

National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said the charges against Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Al-Haj Murad in connection with the bombing earlier this month in Makilala, North Cotabato that left six people dead, shall be dropped.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 362415 [Title] => ‘Talks with MILF will resume despite impasse’ [Summary] => DAVAO CITY - Chief government peace negotiator Silvestre Afable has expressed confidence that peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will resume despite an impasse on the issue of ancestral domain.

"I am confident the peace talks would resume," he told The STAR during a break in the peace consultation of Mindanao stakeholders at the Royal Mandaya Hotel here.

Afable said the government shall submit to the MILF by end of October a new proposal to resolve the impasse in the peace talks.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322379 [Title] => ‘MNLF peace pact has to be amended’ [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Chief government peace negotiator Silvestre Afable said there shall be no final peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) unless the peace accord forged with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1996 is amended.

Afable said both the MNLF and the MILF have to agree on the amendments to the 1996 peace agreement before a final peace deal with the MILF can be ironed out.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287140 [Title] => Unforgettable, maybe, but inevitable? [Summary] => There is a school of thought which claims that President GMA’s downfall is inevitable, if not exactly imminent. This inevitability school says that it’s not a matter of if, but when. Naturally, this kind of thinking drives her supporters up a wall.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532076 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274867 [Title] => Gov’t, MILF report breakthrough in peace talks [Summary] => Finally, a "breakthrough" in the quest for peace in troubled Mindanao.

Philippine government negotiators and Muslim separatist rebels announced they had made significant progress in peace talks Wednesday, resolving several key sticking points relating to the territorial rights of Muslim tribes in the South.

The three-day talks, brokered by Malaysia between Manila and the
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274614 [Title] => No agreement but ‘good mood’ in RP-MILF talks [Summary] => PORT DICKSON, Malaysia (AFP) — Government and rebel negotiators meeting to end a decades-old Muslim separatist rebellion in the southern Philippines have not yet reached consensus on any points but "the mood is good," Malaysian organizers said yesterday.

"They are trying to find out what they can come to terms with," a Malaysian official told Agence France Presse on the sidelines of the second day of talks at a resort in this port city south of Kuala Lumpur.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271757 [Title] => Palace prods private sector to study 4-day workweek [Summary] => Malacañang urged private firms yesterday to study the feasibility of a four-day workweek, which will soon be implemented in national government agencies, as a way of participating in the government’s energy conservation campaign.

Palace communications director Silvestre Afable said it is up to the private companies to draw up their employees’ work schedules so that the scheme would help in the government’s efforts to save energy without affecting productivity.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805432 [AuthorName] => Paolo Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258175 [Title] => PR players eyeing gov’t posts [Summary] => Professional public relations (PR) practitioners were among the latest to join the fray jockeying for various Cabinet posts following President Arroyo’s disclosure that she would like to appoint a presidential adviser on communications.

Big-name PR professionals like Reuben Lim and Bubut Quicho were among the PR men whose names are on the list of professional communications specialists from which the President will select her newest advisor, whose task will be to turn her existing communications group into a "cohesive" team.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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