MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has instructed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to immediately work for the repatriation of the remains of four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were reportedly killed during a rocket attack in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday.
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo thanked the Shariah courts in Saudi Arabia, including its ruler King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, for the release yesterday of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Sarah Dematera who was convicted to hang for allegedly killing her female employer in the oil-rich kingdom in 1992.
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MANILA — Grateful for surviving a delicate open-heart surgery with a very low survival rate, First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo withdrew today all libel suits he had earlier filed before the courts including those against media men.
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hailed today the move of Texas Instruments Inc. (TI), the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, in choosing the Philippines, specifically the Clark Freeport Zone, as the site of its $1-billion expansion project that would create some 3,000 new jobs for the Filipino people.
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MANILA — In a move to further promote the Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) as an economic haven in the Asia ? Pacific region, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has issued an executive order granting tax and duty incentives to “duly registered business enterprises that will operate in special economic zones to be created by proclamation inside the CFZ.”
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