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MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino has arrested a slide in support while his nearest rival, Manual "Manny" Villar of the Nacionalista Party, lost ground ahead of elections on May 10, an opinion poll showed on Monday. The Businessworld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, conducted on March 19-22 before the start...
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MOSCOW – Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 60, officials said. They blamed the carnage on rebels from the Caucasus region. The blasts come six years after Islamic separatists from the southern...
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Before the controversial New York dinner where they spent $20,000, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her entourage dined on “lobster, steak and fine wines” in Washington and spent $15,000 for the meal, a Washington Post blog reported on Wednesday. It also said an “unidentified woman opened a handbag stuffed with cash” and paid for...
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MANILA – The Philippines has regressed in key areas of governance over the past ten years, data from the World Bank showed. The multilateral lender’s Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), a research project initiated in the late 1990s, revealed that the country’s performance worsened last year compared to 1998 in five out of six dimensions...
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The three-story house in Pasig City was called "Malacañang," a notorious shabu den, its moniker perhaps a symbol of the drug’s status in the criminal world. Even though the house’s alleged owner has been in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for over two years, this Malacañang continued to operate.
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