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HOUSE STAMPS ‘YES’ ON AMNESTY GRANT WITH 213 lawmakers voting yes and seven no and two abstaining, the House of Representatives on Monday


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concurred with Proclamation 75, which grants amnesty to active and former personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police and their supporters who may have committed crimes punishable under the Revised Penal Code, the Articles of War and other laws in connection with the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, the 2006 Marines stand-off and the 2007 Peninsula Manila hotel siege.


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Lawyers cite separation of powers


BY WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL REPORTER PRIVATE think


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Forensic Law and Policy Strategies Inc. (Forensic Solutions), on Monday warned that Malacañang waging a “dangerous war” against the Supreme Court (SC) for declaring unconstitutional Executive Order (EO) 1 would undermine the constitutional


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2011 budget report ratified by senators


BY EFREN L. DANAO SENIOR REPORTER


THE Senate ratified Monday night the bicameral conference committee re- port on the P1.645-trillion budget for the national government’s operation next year.


Sen. Franklin Drilon, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, said that the bicameral body restored the main- tenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) worth P110.330 million for 80 state universities and colleges to bring them to the 2010 level of the national expenditure program. Among the other increases, according to Drilon, were P519 million more for the budget of the House of Representa- tives, P345 million for that of the Sen- ate and P8 million for the Office of the Vice President.


Also increased were the MOOE of the


University of the Philippines, P200 mil- lion, and financial subsidy to local gov- ernments, P200 million.


The budget of the Department of Edu- cation was realigned for the creation of 5,000 new teaching positions amount- ing to P750 million.


Sen. Vicente Sotto 3rd said that P200 million was lopped off the P880-million budget of the Department of Health (DOH) for the purchase of contracep- tives. The Senate initially wanted to cut the entire P880 million, but DOH offi- cials explained that about P600 million


➤RatifiedA2 BY ROMMEL C. LONTAYAO REPORTER BY CRIS G. ODRONIA REPORTER


■ Families of the “Morong 43” carry enlarged photos of the detained health workers at the Department of Justice in Manila on Monday. PHOTO BY RENE DILAN


■ Three replicas of pre-Hispanic Filipino boats, called “balangays,” dock at Manila Bay on Monday after making a successful tour around Southeast Asia. PHOTO BY


MIGUEL DE GUZMAN


■ President Aquino 3rd


MALACAÑANG on Monday branded as “propaganda” the comparison of rights records of the Aquino administration and the previous Arroyo administration, particularly on extra-judicial killings. The convenors of the Religious Dis- cernment Group of the Catholic Bish- ops’ Conference of the Philippines


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WELLINGTON: Three Filipinos were among the 22 fishermen who are feared dead from the sinking of a South Korean trawler off Antarctica on Monday. The trawler sank suddenly and with-


Three Pinoys feared dead in Antarctica


out warning, with its owners saying it may have collided with an iceberg. Rescuers said that the 22 men from


the No. 1 Insung had no chance to don protective gear as they scrambled to es- cape the trawler and were presumed dead, since they had only 10 minutes’ survival time in the icy waters. The trawler went down so fast it did


not even have a chance to send an SOS before plunging to the depths of the Southern Ocean, Maritime New Zea- land said.


Insung Corp. spokesman Ryan Kim said that the company was trying to un- derstand what happened. “The boat sank in about 30 minutes.


THREE wooden-hulled replicas of boats made 1,700 years ago ended a Southeast Asian odyssey in Manila on Monday, hav- ing followed the routes and methods of an- cient sea gypsies for more than a year. The vessels, called balangay, were made of


More public holidays hurting businesses


to avoid the country while raising costs for employers by tens of millions of dollars, according to a study published by seven foreign chambers of commerce on Monday. Filipino workers had 21 public holidays this year, compared with nine in Vietnam, 11 in Singapore and 12 in Taiwan, said the study.


CAMPAIGNS to declare national holidays in the Philippines that would honor pets and fishermen are fueling business anger over the mounting number of days off workers enjoy each year. Too many holidays are forcing many potential investors


‘Ancient’ Philippine boats complete Asian odyssey Transportation dept. readies P748-billion transport plan Cybersex is outsourcing boom’s dark underside


carved wooden planks held together by wooden pins and pegs, and the 37-man crew navigated using the timeless methods of their ancient predecessors, according to team leader Art Valdez. “Why did I launch into the expedition


and the balangay? To capture the imagina- tion of the people and send the message that we [Filipinos] can do so much,” Valdez said after the boats sailed into Manila harbor. The 14,000-kilometer journey began in


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BY DARWIN G. AMOJELAR SENIOR REPORTER


THE Department of Transportation and Communications plans to come up with an executive order (EO) early


next year on the formulation of a multibillion proposal that will iden- tify network gaps and priority infra- structure in the next six years. “We’re still revising the draft execu- tive order. Maybe [we will present it


to the National Economic and Devel- opment Authority board] early next year,” Ruben Reinoso Jr., Transporta- tion and Communications undersec- retary for policy, planning and project management, said on Monday.


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GIRLS and women acting out the sexual fantasies of online voyeurs around the world are part of a worrying offshoot to the Philippines’ booming outsourcing industry, authorities said.


Cybersex dens are a


growing problem in the Southeast Asian nation that has long struggled to curb child prostitution, according to law enforcers and social workers.


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via the Internet in a seedy mutation of the country’s sunshine outsource industry


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We are trying hard to find the reason why it sank so quickly,” he told Agence France-Presse. “We believe the vessel might have been hit by an iceberg or a strong wave, although we have yet to secure any evi- dence of this. We are now collecting information from the surviving crew,” Kim added. Another trawler plucked 20 crew members from the sea shortly after the ship sank, but the rest of the 42-strong crew had only minutes to live without proper immersion suits.


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DOJ WITHDRAWS RAPS AGAINST ‘MORONG 43’


THE Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed motions to withdraw criminal charges against 43 health workers arrested in Morong, Rizal, in February this year. The health workers, collectively known as the “Morong 43,” are expected to be released within the week. Asked to be withdrawn are four cases with the Regional Trial Court of Morong, Rizal and two with the Municipal Trial Court of Cavite, for cases of illegal possession of firearms and explosives


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Malacañang belittles Arroyo rights record


The National Transport Plan (NTP) aims to ease economic integration between and among regional growth centers in the country.


The department said that the plan ➤TransportA6


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