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[Title] => Arroyo: I’m not running in 2004
[Summary] => In a move than stunned the nation, President Arroyo declared yesterday she will not seek the presidency in 2004 in the hope that it will stop intense politicking and unify the country.
"I have decided not to run for president during the elections of 2004," the President said in Baguio City during brief rites marking the 106th death anniversary of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-31 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[Title] => DILG, Baguio government doing separate barangay censuses
[Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — This city was supposed to be one of two pilot areas for the controversial national identification system (the other being Cebu City), but pending the implementation of the project, the city government has started laying the groundwork for a barangay census.
But before it could launch its barangay census, mainly for taxation purposes, it appears that the Department of the Interior and Local Governments (DILG) has beaten it to the draw.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => Bunye is next press secretary?
[Summary] => President Arroyo may name former Muntinlupa representative Ignacio Bunye as her next spokesman and press secretary.
Acting Press Secretary Silvestre Afable told reporters yesterday he heard Mrs. Arroyo mention Bunye as his possible replacement during a meeting in Malacañang about two weeks ago.
"(Mrs. Arroyo) didn’t talk about this as if it were a firm decision," he said. "She was just thinking aloud."
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Baguio’s chill dips further
[Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — From the chilling 9.6 degrees Celsius recorded on the 25th of both November and December, this city’s temperature further dipped to 8.8 degrees the other day, weathermen said.
Baguio’s coldest day on record was Jan. 18, 1961 when the mercury reading reached 6.3 degrees.
It was a warmer New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day for city folk with temperatures of 13.4 and 13.5 degrees, respectively. — Aurora Alambra
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => GMA’s New Year wish: Unity for RP
[Summary] => MANSION HOUSE, Baguio City — President Arroyo said yesterday her New Year’s wish is for the nation to be united and for a one-year suspension of politicking.
Speaking in the third and last episode of the television program "May Gloria ang Bukas mo," Mrs. Arroyo told host Winnie Monsod she hopes the Filipino people, especially the "great Filipino worker," will strive and work harder for the nation.
"The year 2002 will be dedicated to the Filipino people," she said.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-31 00:00:00
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[Title] => GMA targets 4 M new jobs till 2004
[Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Amid grim predictions of a global economic slump, President Arroyo vowed to create four million new jobs as she painted a rosy picture of the Philippine economy next year.
In her weekly radio-television program aired from the presidential Mansion House here yesterday, the President expressed optimism that the country would sustain its economic growth, rein in inflation, bring down unemployment and curb foreign exchange speculation.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-29 00:00:00
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[Title] => GMA sidesteps queries on ’04 plans
[Summary] => President Arroyo sidestepped questions yesterday about her political plans for 2004 while former President Fidel Ramos said he would not seek a second term, "period, period, period."
Mrs. Arroyo said she was touring the country not to get votes for 2004 but to reach out to Filipinos in far-flung areas.
When asked during a television broadcast yesterday about her election plans for 2004, the President said, "That is attributing motive."
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[Title] => Abra mayor killed in ambush
[Summary] => Still unidentified men killed an Abra municipal mayor in an ambush yesterday morning, police said.
Mayor Jose Segundo of Tubo town, police said, was en route to Barangay Dilong when he was waylaid at about 7 a.m.
Segundo sustained multiple gunshot wounds and died while being rushed to the Cervantes Hospital in Cervantes, Ilocos Sur.
Senior Superintendent Benjamin Magalong, Abra police director, said policemen and members of the Army’s 503rd Infantry Brigade were pursuing the ambushers.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => It’s 9.6ûC in Baguio!
[Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — The prevailing "Siberian high" gave this city yesterday its coldest morning ever this year, with the temperature dipping to 9.6 degrees Celsius between 2 and 5 a.m.
Joseph Rios, the weather bureau’s Baguio head, said the "Siberian high pressure area" in the north has been blowing Siberian winds southward, thus the cold front now affecting this city.
Yesterday’s temperature was one degree lower than the 10.6 degrees Celsius recorded on Feb. 16-17 this year.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-27 00:00:00
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[Title] => Cold spell descends on Baguio
[Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — From a "normal" temperature of 14.2 degrees Celsius only last Nov. 17, the annual Christmas cold spell again descended on this mountain city the following day, with the minimum temperature recorded at 13 degrees Celsius.
Weather forecaster Efren Aquino said the temperature further dropped to 12.4 degrees Celsius last Monday. The week’s coldest day so far was Tuesday at 11.4 degrees.
Aquino said they expect the temperature to go down further by December, with this season’s coldest possibly rivaling the previous one which was recorded at 10.6 degrees Celsius on Feb. 16 this year.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-24 00:00:00
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