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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 (Philippines)
| Students of the Quezon City Science High School, mostly freshmen, attend a briefing on school policies as classes opened last Monday.(Sunnex/Jonathan F. Fernandez) |
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THE Armed Forces on Sunday dispatched one of its transport-cargo aircraft to strife-torn East Timor to fetch at least 48 Filipino workers ordered repatriated due to intermittent violence there.
Air Force spokesman Augusto dela Peña said the C-130 aircraft left the Air Force headquarters in Villamor Air Base in Pasay City at around 10 p.m. for Darwin airport in Australia where it will be making a short stopover.
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5 students nabbed for staging protest near Palace
THE Manila policemen on Monday arrested five students of the state-owned Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) and two others for illegal assembly in Malacañang, a violation of Batas Pambansa (BP) 880, which has been recently rendered constitutional by the Supreme Court (SC).
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Court upholds suspension of customs exec over ‘ill-gotten wealth’
THE Court of Appeals (CA) on Monday sustained the six-month suspension imposed by the Office of the Ombudsman on a top customs official detailed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) for allegedly misdeclaring his income and acquiring unexplained wealth amounting to P27.4 million.
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Palace also sees end of insurgency in 10 years
MALACANANG agreed with the assessment of the Department of National Defense (DND) that the insurgent problem could end in 10 years as they consider “communism as a lost cause.”
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