MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) to make the promoters and managers accountable for the death of Filipino boxer Angelito “Lito” Sisnorio in a mismatch of a fight in Thailand recently.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Lenten Message, Heroes’ Hall, Malacanang, April 2-7, 2007
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MANILA — The Philippines is now Asia?s largest rice importer as a result of agricultural trade liberalization coupled with state neglect, and this threatens the country?s food security and sufficiency, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.
MANILA — The clear indictment of the Permanent People?s Tribunal (PPT), which proclaimed the Arroyo government guilty of abandoning the poor due to its economic policies, should now push the administration to urgently address poverty.
MANILA — Consul General Maria Theresa P. Lazaro of the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney, Australia reported to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo that the four injured Filipino seafarers of the bulk carrier ?Shirane? are confirmed safe based on the information gathered from the John Hunter Hospital, the Royal North Shore Hospital (Burns Unit), and the NYK Line Australia.