| Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza, foreground, testifies before a Senate hearing on the controversial national broadband network deal Thursday in Manila, following an expose made by businessman Joey de Venecia, background. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- The chairman of the Senate committee investigating the controversial National Broadband Network (NBN) project called on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday to scrap the deal with China's ZTE Corporation.
Senator Manuel "Mar" Roxas II said the Philippines can still back out because it has not yet obtained from China the US$329 million loan, conditioned upon the signing of a contract with ZTE, to fund the NBN project.
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