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Thursday, January 31, 2008 (Philippines)
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| Police bomb squad members gather pieces of evidence following an explosion at a fish processing plant at General Santos City in southern Philippines Wednesday. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- The Senate on Wednesday ordered the arrest of National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Director General Romulo Neri and Philippine Forest Corp. (PFC) chief executive officer Roberto Lozada for their failure to attend the hearing on the controversial National Broadband Network (NBN) deal.
Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, a member of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee looking into the NBN controversy, made the move to arrest Neri and Lozada as he explained that Senate rules must be respected and be enforced.
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Death toll in GenSan blast rises to 4; police suspect extortion
| GENERAL SANTOS (Updated 11:15 a.m.) -- The death toll from a homemade bomb that ripped through a tuna canning factory in General Santos City rose to four Thursday with 27 injured, as police focused on a labor dispute or extortion attempt as a possible motive. |
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CA issues injunction on city spray ban
| DAVAO CITY -- The Court of Appeals in Cagayan de Oro City has issued a writ of preliminary injunction on the implementation of the controversial Aerial Spray Ban Ordinance in Davao City. |
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Suspected drug peddler slain in Cebu
| CEBU CITY -- A drug peddling suspect was gunned down in the interior portion of Sitio Lawis in Barangay Lorega San Miguel, Cebu City Wednesday afternoon. |
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