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                    [Title] => DOLE execs hail late labor leader
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Current and former chiefs of the Department of Labor and Employment have given their respective eulogies for the late labor leader, Atty. Democrito Mendoza, in a necrological service the other night.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-22 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1526426 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 960474 [Title] => Drilon wants Iloilo airport’s name retained [Summary] =>

 Iloilo province’s commercial airport should retain its name, Sen. Franklin Drilon said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1378444 [AuthorName] => Jennifer P. Rendon [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 648694 [Title] => PNoy to grace PBSP's 40th gala [Summary] =>

President Aquino will grace the 40th anniversary gala dinner of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), whose members include the country’s top corporate leaders and chief executive officers, in Makati on Jan. 25.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 421881 [Title] => NDF says government peace panel lying on resumption of peace talks [Summary] => The National Democratic Front (NDF) yesterday assailed the Arroyo administration, specifically the head of the government panel negotiating peace with communist rebels, for “lying” about the resumption of formal peace talks. [DatePublished] => 2008-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 421301 [Title] => Government now ready to resume peace talks with NDF [Summary] => Former Labor secretary Nieves Confesor, who now heads the government panel negotiating with the communist rebels, bared yesterday that the government is now ready to resume peace talks with the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Communist Party of the Philippines. [DatePublished] => 2008-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290771 [Title] => Government remains committed to peace talks with Reds [Summary] => The government told foreign diplomats yesterday that it won’t abandon hopes for peace with communist guerrillas, despite an indefinite suspension of negotiations, and that it will respect the rights of rebel negotiators who now face arrest after losing their immunity.

Briefing Southeast Asian and European diplomats on the stalled talks, Philippine officials said Manila will continue to press for a resumption of peace negotiations to end the 35-year-old communist insurgency.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289430 [Title] => Joma: Peace talks merely postponed [Summary] => PARIS — Communist rebels will continue to hold peace talks with the government, contrary to the announcement of Philippine-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal that they have withdrawn from the negotiations, exiled communist leader Jose Ma. Sison said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1787013 [AuthorName] => Vi Massart [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289313 [Title] => Gov’t says communists using peace talks to get rid of terror tag [Summary] => The government accused communist rebels yesterday of using the peace talks to have them removed from the list of terrorists of the United States and the European Union.

Chief government negotiator Nieves Confesor said in a statement from Malacañang that the National Democratic Front (NDF) had unilaterally withdrew from the negotiations because the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA), and communist leader Jose Ma. Sison had not been taken off the terrorist lists.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272633 [Title] => NDF rejects new gov’t peace panel [Summary] => Communist rebels rejected yesterday as "phony" the new government peace panel headed by former labor secretary Nieves Confesor.

Ruth de Leon, National Democratic Front (NDF) international information chief based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, said they are holding Confesor responsible for the March 17, 1995 hanging in Singapore of Filipina maid Flor Contemplacion, who was convicted of murdering another Filipina domestic helper, Delia Maga, and her employer’s three-year-old son.
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