Look beyond present to 20-40 years ahead, Philippines president asks world leaders

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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Philippines economic growth, stability here to stay, Arroyo tells investors

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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Military denounced for ‘lies’ on Grecil

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE

Kabiba Foundation, a child advocate, said Brigadier General Carlos Holganza, chief of 1001st Infantry Brigade, was lying when he said that Grecil was killed by NPA fire. ?It?s a big lie,? the group said, citing testimonies that the soldiers had strafed and ransacked the girl's house.

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