PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Sunday left for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK-SAR) to attend the 11th Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference and meet with the Filipino community and foreign investors.
Arroyo boarded PAL Flight number 306 at 2:45 p.m. Sunday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Centennial Terminal and arrived in Hong Kong shortly [...]
By Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
FIRST, the Gloria haters: those who play in their minds again and again the scene of President Arroyo leaving or being evicted from Malacañang.
Maybe not like images of Ferdinand Marcos getting into a plane that would fly the dictator out of the country. Or of Erap Estrada, convicted plunderer, fleeing on [...]
AN EVENING cocktail reception that militants described as expensive will kick off President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s three-day working visit in Hong Kong.
In a statement, Malacañang said the evening cocktail reception for Hong Kong’s Filipino community will be at the Tiffin Lounge of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. (more)
By Linette C. Ramos
With Elias O. Baquero
CEBU CITY — Before the supply of corn grits runs out, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the Department of Agriculture (DA) to find out if local distributors have been hoarding it or if it is distributed unevenly.
The President also instructed the National Food Authority (NFA) to ensure the availability of [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the National Food Authority (NFA) to prioritize the filing of criminal charges against eight government accredited rice distributors in Butuan City that were found to be overpricing the NFA rice.
Arroyo, after inspecting the rice stockpiles stored at the NFA warehouses in Butuan Thursday afternoon with Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, instructed the [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the use of the shares of the National Government in the Malampaya natural gas operations and the coconut levy funds to provide relief assistance to the poor, including the coconut farmers, in light of the rising prices of oil and basic commodities.
Arroyo issued the directive as she turned down proposals of [...]
By Jane Cadalig
THE controversy hounding the ban imposed on vans along Kennon Road has reached the country’s highest office.
This, as Presidential Assistant for the Cordillera Thomas Killip and Public Transport Affairs Office Secretary Ariel Lim recommended to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to place Transportation Regional Director Federico Mandapat Jr. on a “floating status” or transferred to [...]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be in Clark Freeport Zone on Wednesday to address the Philippines Development Forum (PDF) at the Jasmine Function Hall of Fontana the Fontana Convention Center.
With its theme “Accelerating Inclusive Growth and Deepening Fiscal Stability,” the forum will discuss national fiscal program, investment climate, and comprehensive infrastructure [...]
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the revocation of all the licenses and passbooks of 5,000 National Food Authority (NFA) retailers nationwide as they review the existing permits and renew only those that are officially identified and allowed by the government to distribute NFA rice.
Arroyo made the order as she asked traders and retailers to refrain from [...]
MANILA — The special investigation panel created by the Office of the Ombudsman dismissed Tuesday a motion to summon President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to answer criminal offenses imputed against her to conduct public hearings on alleged anomalies in the US$329 million national broadband network (NBN)-ZTE project.
University of the Philippines-College of Law professor Harry Roque, a lawyer [...]
