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                    [Title] => Stats aplenty, facts fewer in power plant debate
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President Barack Obama's new pollution limits for power plants have set off an avalanche of information about what the rules will cost, how they will affect your health and how far they will go toward curbing climate change.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-16 04:38:38 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1421446 [AuthorName] => Josh Lederman [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1254640 [Title] => Oldest Fil-Am war veteran dies in US [Summary] =>

Alberto Bacani, the oldest Filipino American World War II veteran in the United States, died of pneumonia on Tuesday, it was announced here. He was 102.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Pinoy Worldwide [SectionUrl] => pinoy-worldwide [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1240896 [Title] => US senator apologizes to Fil-Am veterans [Summary] =>

US Sen.Ted Cruz has apologized to Filipino-American World War II veterans for comparing his 21-hour filibuster against US President Barack Obama’s health care reform to the Bataan Death March.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 945643 [Title] => Chances of immigrating to US improve for Pinoy vets’ children [Summary] =>

Some 20,000 adult sons and daughters of Filipino World War II veterans moved closer to their goal of immigrating to the United States when a US Senate committee unanimously voted to fast-track their visa applications.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img51/8635/gen7l.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 791821 [Title] => Fil-Am war vet dies in US [Summary] =>

One of the few surviving Filipino-American World War II veterans here, Guillermo Rumingan, died of heart attack on Tuesday. He was 86.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 498519 [Title] => Purging Japanese collaborators from Pinoy veterans list delays payments [Summary] =>

WASHINGTON – Compensation payments to Filipino World War II veterans for their wartime services to Uncle Sam are being held up by a purge of Japanese collaborators from their ranks and bureaucratic problems, US and Filipino officials said.

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Filipino World War II veterans expressed outrage at the sacking of retired Maj. Gen. Delfin Lorenzana as head of the Office of Veteran Affairs in Washington and the manner in which it was carried out.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 490579 [Title] => 'GMA visit to Washington not a mere Kodak moment' [Summary] =>

President Arroyo’s visit to Washington is important to the United States and is not, as some of her Filipino opponents suggest, a trip of “no big deal” or a mere “Kodak moment” with President Barack Obama, US political analysts said.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 488473 [Title] => Drug industry, Pfizer lead in US health lobbying [Summary] => WASHINGTON (AP) -- The drug industry's trade group and one of the biggest US pharmaceutical companies reported spending more money than other health care organizations on lobbying in the second quarter of this year. [DatePublished] => 2009-07-21 14:02:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 449860 [Title] => Pinoy war veterans to get initial compensation in April [Summary] =>

The US government plans to hand out the first checks from a $198-million compensation fund to Filipino World War II veterans on April 9, the 67th anniversary of the fall of Bataan to Japanese forces.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1415410 [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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