PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo left late Friday night for Davos, Switzerland to attend the 2009 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Arroyo boarded a Philippine Airlines chartered flight PR-001 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 2 at 11:07 p.m.
Officials who accompanied the President were Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza, and [...]
Written on January 31, 2009 | Posted in
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shares a light moment with Lakas Party president and House Speaker Prospero Nograles before the start of the Lakas expanded executive committee meeting Thursday (Jan. 29) at the Mimosa Leisure Estate, Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga. (OPS-NIB Photo)
CLARK FREEPORT — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday ordered the creation of a committee that [...]
Written on January 30, 2009 | Posted in
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the setting up of urban vegetable gardens and backyard fisheries, including vacant lots and unused government lands, to increase food production in the urban areas.
Arroyo, in issuing Executive Order (EO) 776, ordered the Department of Agriculture (DA), local governments, and the Philippine Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) to roll out the Gulayan [...]
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MANILA — An anti-pollution advocate branded as “ridiculous and confused” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s order reorganizing the Presidential Task Force on Climate Change (PTFCC) and appointing herself as its head.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia climate and energy campaigner Amalie Obusan said Executive Order (EO) 774, which seeks to step up environmental protection, “may seem sincere and creditable, (but) [...]
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THE “special relations” between the Philippines and the United States would continue under the administration of new American President Barrack Obama, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Tuesday.
Arroyo, during the New Year’s vin d’honneur in Malacañang, said this was the commitment of Obama when she talked to him before the elections and even after he won the [...]
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SUGARCANE farmers of San Benito Employees and Laborers Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Moises Padilla town have sought President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s intervention with regard to the ongoing hostilities in Hacienda San Benito.
In its letter, the farmers’ group, through its president Erlito Batallon, said the cooperative wants a speedy resolution of the case it earlier filed before the [...]
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CANDABA — A municipal councilor in this town hailed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and fourth district Representative Anna York Bondoc-Sagum for the various infrastructure projects deemed to improve the social and economic welfare of thousands of Candabeños.
Andy Gulapa, chairman of the Municipal Council committee on public works, told Sun.Star that the people of Candaba are “very [...]
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AN ADMINISTRATION congressman on Wednesday asked President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, as the new anti-drug czar, to bust the 26 drug syndicates operating in the country.
“The new drug czar should take hold of this problem and lead the busting of these 26 remaining drug syndicates,” said Cebu Representative Antonio Cuenco in a meeting attended by members of [...]
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AFTER last week’s visit to flood victims, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is again coming back to Cagayan de Oro for a meeting with disaster officials in the region.
The President’s visit comes after flashfloods affected residents of Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental and other parts of Northern Mindanao, displacing thousands of families and destroying houses and [...]
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PRESIDENT Arroyo has finally acted on the controversy involving the handling of the illegal drugs case against the so-called “Alabang boys.â€
Since the controversy broke during the Christmas holidays, Arroyo has been silent and has apparently left the talking to Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr. It was the first time last Sunday that the President entered [...]
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