The collection shortfall of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) ballooned to P26.54 billion in the period from January to October from P18.89 billion as of September, forcing the national government to rely on more privatization proceeds to stay within its target limit for the budget deficit this year, government documents showed.
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MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE 3) The first group of Filipinos stranded in Thailand arrived in Manila late Monday onboard a special Philippine Airlines flight.
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MANILA, Philippines -- The committee on justice of the House of Representatives submitted Tuesday to the committee on rules its report on the fourth impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that was found insufficient in substance.
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LOS ANGELES—Pausing from signing autographs for close friends, Manny Pacquiao pondered a question on what’s next now that his team was scheduled to leave for Nevada’s gambling haven in preparation for the Dec. 6 “Dream Match” against Oscar De La Hoya.
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While the Ombudsman seems to have adopted the Darwinian, instead of the Gregorian, calendar, the Sandiganbayan took the expressway to justice and acted with dispatch in the $2-million extortion and robbery charges against former justice secretary Hernando Perez. The Ombudsman and the Sandiganbayan are really a team, like Joker and Two-Face, like Bonnie and Clyde.
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MANILA, Philippines—It seemed like a joke at first —the country’s foremost “divas” on one stage. But Kuh Ledesma was not laughing. And it took her three and a half years to realize this “dream concert,” but at last, she will be performing with Zsazsa Padilla, Pops Fernandez and Regine Velasquez in “Divas 4 Divas,” set Dec. 6 at the Big Dome.
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WHEN word about the country’s first ever yoga asana competition spread, everyone wondered: Why stage a competition for an ancient practice considered sacred by many of its devout followers? Doesn’t it go against the nonjudgmental, noncompetitive nature of yoga?
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MANILA, Philippines -- Rex Book Store (RBS) has started digitizing some of its books as part of the Google Book Search Publisher Partner Program wherein book publishers can place their books in the Google Book Search tool.
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