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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said that the Japan-Philippines
Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa) will have a
good chance of being ratified by the Senate if Tokyo
will categorically declare that it will not allow the
export or transfer of toxic industrial waste to the
Philippines.
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MANILA, Philippines — On May 24, 2007, Philippine Secretary of Foreign
Affairs Alberto Romulo announced that the Japanese government has
confirmed that Japan will not export toxic waste to the Philippines
under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). The
confirmation is contained in an exchange of diplomatic notes signed on
the same day by Sec. Romulo and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – ADB and Thailand have entered into a five-year Country Partnership Strategy, the first ever of its type forged by ADB and a middle-income country.
?This important new partnership aims to fortify our relationship with Thailand to jointly work towards achieving sustainable economic growth, both at the national level and within the region,? said Arjun Thapan, Director General of ADB?s Southeast Asia Department.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to urgently investigate and find the person responsible with threatening to kill Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President Syed Huma Ali if he attends the IFJ World Congress in Moscow.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said today that recent arrests and attacks on journalists in Azerbaijan marked a new low for a country whose respect for press freedom has plummeted in recent years.
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