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1. RP police lack negotiators
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

..., even before this hostage incident,” he said. Edwin Lacierda, the spokesman for President Benigno Aquino 3rd, disagreed. “To my knowledge, there are manuals, there’s a police ma...

2. State-owned financial firms eyed for PPP
(Business/Business)

BY KATRINA MENNEN A. VALDEZ REPORTER THE Aquino administration plans to tap state-run pension funds and financial institutions to raise money for its public-private partnership (PPP) initiative.

3. Bigger FDI inflows seen alongside faster economy
(Business/Business)

...pation will fill the gap through the government’s PPP initiative. Tetangco said President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s focus on PPP will be a big boost to the country’s FDI. Despite the ...

4. NO NEED FOR MORE APOLOGIES
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

... has apologized. That should be enough said,” Pangilinan said. The apology by President Benigno Aquino 3rd came even before the adoption of the resolution by Hong Kong lawmakers. The Presid...

5. Customs excludes tax expenditure fund from full-year goal
(Business/Business)

... as against its P280 billion tax collection burden, without the TEF in the picture. For next year, the Aquino administration is aiming to achieve a lower budget deficit than programmed by attracti...

6. Manila to pay victims’ kin
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...anding that Manila apologize and pay compensation. As an official inquiry continued, President Benigno Aquino 3rd formed a Cabinet-level committee to look into possible indemnity for the victims, ...

7. Aquino vows support for BPO sector
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

By Cris G. Odronia Reporter President Benigno Aquino 3rd unveils the marker of the new center of Convergys on Friday in Manila during ceremonies that were attended by Mayor Alfredo Lim and the comp

8. Zhao rules Campo Cup, So in 7th
(Sports/Sports)

...ht by ruling the FIDE President Florencio Campomanes Memorial Cup chess championships held at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. Zhao drew his ninth-round game with GM Anton Filippov of Uzbe-kistan to f...

9. Foreigners complain of Aquino’s mining ‘policy’
(Business/Business)

By Ben Arnold O. de Vera Reporter LOOSE ends in the Aquino administration’s mining policy is unsettling the investor community at a time when the government is courting private sector suppo

10. August revenues likely short of goal
(Business/Business)

...ng agencies conceded they would fall short of their tax collection targets for a second month since the Aquino administration assumed office. “It may be difficult to meet the August collect...

11. So, Laylo bounce back in Campo Cup
(Sports/Sports)

...g in the first former FIDE President Florencio Campomanes Memorial Cup chess championships at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. So outclassed compatriot Oliver Barbosa while Laylo stunned fifth seed GM...

12. Church warns vs. whitewash
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

... played out to the world on August 23, Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo on Tuesday asked the Aquino administration to ensure that justice would be served to all the victims, including t...

13. Ramon Magsaysay Awardees ‘selfless’
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

President Benigno Aquino 3rd poses with the winners of the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Awards at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay City on Tuesday. PHOTO BY JESSIE LAURET

14. 7-year rate plummets on excess liquidity
(Business/Business)

...ee funds to boost government spending to and narrow the fiscal gap during the term of President Benigno Aquino 3rd. Tan said the government is still in the process of striking a balance in terms o...

15. So absorbs first loss in Campo Cup
(Sports/Sports)

...n the fifth round of the first Florencio Campomanes Memorial Cup chess championship Tuesday at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. The 19-year-old Le needed 38 moves of the Slav to beat the Filipino champ...

16. De Lima gags hijack probers
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...fficer Rolando Mendoza. One of the key parts of the inquiry ordered by Philippine President Benigno Aquino 3rd was to determine whether the hostages were killed by bullets from the hijacker&rs...

17. NTC to slap higher fees on telcos, broadcast companies
(Business/Business)

...e NTC suffered a cut in the subsidy it receives from government during the first month in office of the Aquino administration, which has vowed to reduce state subsidies to government owned or contr...

18. 3 RP chessers slide to third in Campo Cup
(Sports/Sports)

...layers grabbed the lead in the first Florencio Campomanes Memorial Cup chess championships at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. So drew his third-round game with GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia to rais...

19. Same probe results a must
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Philippine findings contradicting HK’s ruinous to Aquino BY RUBEN D. MANAHAN 4TH REPORTER AND EFREN L. DANAO SENIOR REPORTER The government must ensure that official results of investigations

20. No return to debt market for state firms this year
(Business/Business)

...ina Mennen A. Valdez Reporter NO state-owned firm is likely to tap the debt market this year amid the Aquino administration’s belt-tightening measures, according to the Department of Financ...

21. 4.5M Pinoys have diabetes, 8.5M-plus have prediabetes
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...al medicinal plants.” Later, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral denigrated herbal cures. Will the Aquino administration’s Secretary Ona be friendly to herbal medicines—as long as ...

22. Another policeman suspended over rescue fiasco
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...vernment ramped up pressure on Manila to release results of an inquiry into the fiasco, President Benigno Aquino 3rd vowed on Thursday that he would take tough action. “There were shortcomings ...

23. First Campomanes Cup starts today
(Sports/Sports)

...ederation (FIDE) President Florencio Campomanes Memorial chess championships beginning today at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Malate, Manila. GM Wesley So and Asia’s first GM Eugene Torre banner t...

24. Meralco launches sports advocacy grassroot program
(Sports/Sports)

... Caritas Manila,” he noted. Head coach Ryan Gregorio said that the team would be composed of Marlou Aquino, Yousif Aljamal, Pong Escobal, Bitoy Omolon, Ogie Menor, Beau Belga, Mark Cardona, Chri...

25. Police to blame for deaths
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...e foreigners from Fort Santiago to Rizal Park. But Sen. Jose Miguel Zubiri said that President Benigno Aquino 3rd was not to blame for the deaths. President Aquino “should only be ready f...

26. Police officers suspended
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...ed a busload of the foreign visitors in a bid to be exonerated of extortion charges. President Benigno Aquino 3rd ordered flags in all government offices to fly at half-mast, but anger both in the...

27. Hollywood’s Jackie Chan defends pinoys
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...-off] is an isolated incident, it is an unfortunate incident,” the spokesman for President Benigno Aquino 3rd said during a press briefing. Edwin Lacierda expressed hope that the people of&n...

28. Facebook page a battle zone
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...uld expect most people to be in mourning. But visit the official Facebook fan page of President Benigno Aquino 3rd and you are in for a surprise. Since Monday, when 25 mostly Chinese tourists we...

29. Aquino sets ‘National Day of Mourning’ for hostages
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Manila, President Benigno Aquino 3rd fields questions at a press conference. MALACAÑANG   President Benigno Aquino 3rd declared Wednesday a “National Day of Mourning” as a s

30. Police admit blunders
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...nce to media relations procedures in hostage situations. President disappointed Even President Benigno Aquino 3rd, also expressed disappointment on the capability of the police, saying that they n...