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"The country needs a permanent DA secretary since the President is already preoccupied with other problems of the nation" Following ...
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“The fact that more than half of organizations did not join that strike shows that all these threats of strikes ...
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"Now that Ongpin is dead, it will have to be a posthumous acknowledgment" Have you ever wondered why our national ...
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“It is enough that we continue to have problems with illegal drugs around the country, but with the presence of ...
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"Even if Ongpin is gone, with Balesin now in the hands of Recto as chairman and CEO and Ponferrada as ...
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"The Philippines may protest against it, as it had so many times, but will that end the assertiveness of China ...
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"There’s imperative need to update the 1987 charter to erase the fact that the Philippine charter has become repressive and ...
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"From my own point of view as a lawyer, the main issue here is sovereignty" Following calls for President Marcos ...
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