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Thursday, June 16, 2005 (Philippines)
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| Protesters calling for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hold a cassette tape to symbolize her alleged taped conversations as they picket outside the National Telecommunications Commission in Quezon City Wednesday. (AP photo) |
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MANILA (Updated 3:00 p.m.) -- A Cabinet official of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was charged Thursday for underdeclaring the value of a P20 million worth of property in Pasig City resulting to the nonpayment of more than P3 million in taxes.
The filing of the charges came at a time when Arroyo congratulated the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for an 18 percent tax collection efficiency for the month of May.
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Legislators ask Arroyo: Admit or deny
MANILA -- Lawmakers investigating a wiretapping scandal will send a letter asking President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to either admit or deny that it was her voice in a recording that hints of election fraud.
The House committees on public information, national defense, justice, suffrage, and public order and security also agreed to send similar letters to First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano and other people whose conversations were allegedly wiretapped.
But in her visit to Bacoor, Cavite Wednesday, the President did not address the issue directly. |
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Indonesian lawmakers to fly home 2 freed sailors
| ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Several Indonesian lawmakers arrived in the city Wednesday to fetch two of their nationals who were rescued by Philippine authorities from their Abu Sayyaf captors over the weekend. |
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'Hello, hello Garci...will I still lead by 1M?'
| CEBU CITY -- First came bootleg CDs, now it's a ring tone. It seems nothing can stop enterprising Filipinos from spreading part of the alleged wiretapped conversations between President Arroyo and Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. |
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