MANILA — Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman Ignacio R. Bunye rebuked on Sunday critics of the mining industry for conveniently glossing over the benefits that the country derives from the mining sector.
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SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged today the world?s top business and political leaders to look beyond the present to the next 20-40 years of an increasingly complex and uncertain global environment.
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SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? Confident that the emergence of the East Asia Community is inevitable, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said on Sunday the region will be up to the task of leading a more dominant role in world economic and political affairs.
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SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? Saying that the Philippines is firmly on a “path to permanent economic growth and stability,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged Saturday foreign investors to invest in her country and partake of its economic surge.
“I hope that the gentlemen and ladies around this table?. and for those of you who are the movers and shakers of the business community, please come and be a part of the profitable part of the Philippines economic surge,” the President said in her speech during the dinner with the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia 2007 at the Shangri-La Hotel here.
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Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad delivered a privilege speech at the City Council this week denouncing the so-called "re-engineering" of the bureaucracy, which, she said, threatens the job security and welfare of government workers in the city.