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COUNCILOR KIM ATIENZA
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[Title] => Atienza looking forward to quiet life in 2007
[Summary] => Manila City Mayor Lito Atienza, who has devoted 33 years of his life to public service, said yesterday he was now looking forward to a laid back life once his term ends in year 2007.
Atienza, who celebrated his 64th birthday yesterday, said he was not aspiring for any other government post once he concludes his third term as the local chief executive of Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-11 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan
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[Title] => 350 Manileños complete summer employment program
[Summary] => Manila Mayor Lito Atienza reported yesterday that some 350 young Manileños have completed a four-week on-the-job training under the Manila Youth Summer Employment Program (MYSEP).
"The MYSEP was designed to make summer vacation fruitful and worthwhile for our young residents," he said, adding that "the youth must use this time to learn new things to develop and enhance their talents."
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => 5,000 couples pucker up in kissing record bid
[Summary] => Will the City of Manila make it to the Guinness Book of World Records for the most number of couples kissing simultaneously on the eve of Valentines Day?
Officials of the Manila City government and Unilever Phlippines are confident of beating the world record set by Chile, where 4,445 couples kissed simultaneously for 10 seconds.
Manila Mayor Lito Atienza said the event, to be held along a two-kilometer stretch of Roxas Boulevard Baywalk today, is a unique way of celebrating Valentine’s Day in the country’s capital.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-13 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Bebot Sison Jr.
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[Title] => Manila expresses outrage over renaming of Taft Avenue
[Summary] => Manila city officials led by Mayor Lito Atienza have expressed outrage over the passage on second reading by the Senate of a bill renaming the historical Taft Avenue to Senator Jose W. Diokno Avenue, branding the move as "arrogant and betrays a lack of concern for the sensitivities of Manileños."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => GMA slams Manila officials over response to Baseco fire
[Summary] => President Arroyo chided Manila officials yesterday after she failed to contact any of them while fire of still undetermined origin was razing some 3,500 shanties in the squatters’ area in Baseco compound in Tondo.
Two toddlers were injured in the two-hour fire.
Alanie Balagbag, 5, and Dangdang Maunac, 1 and 3 months, were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Arson investigators said some P15 million worth of property was destroyed in the blaze.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-01 00:00:00
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[Title] => Atienza backs extension of rent control law
[Summary] => Manila Mayor Lito Atienza expressed support yesterday for plans to extend the Rent Control Law, which expires on Dec. 31.
"We in Manila are in favor of the extension. It’s not the right time to remove the Rent Control Law," Atienza told reporters during a forum at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo yesterday. The mayor said the City Council convened on Thursday and "all the councilors are in favor of the extension." "We don’t want any additional burden for our people here in Manila."
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-15 00:00:00
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[Title] => Pandacan oil depot relocation pressed
[Summary] => Major oil firms will have to relocate their facilities from the Pandacan oil depot within the next six months after the Manila City Council passed an ordinance yesterday reclassifying Pandacan from a heavy industrial zone to a commercial-residential zone.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-21 00:00:00
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[Title] => City Council moves to evict oil depots from Pandacan
[Summary] => The Manila City Council adopted yesterday a report of the Council’s Housing and Urban Development Committee (HUDC) reclassifying Pandacan from a heavy industrial zone into a commercial and residential zone.
The adoption of the committee’s report further bolstered the move of the city government to phase out the oil depots in the heart of the country’s capital. Members of the City Council want the transfer of the depot within six months.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-26 00:00:00
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[Title] => Lim warns grafters at DILG
[Summary] =>
Interior and Local Government Secretary Alfredo Lim warned officials and
employees of his department yesterday to stay away from graft and corruption or
risk getting sacked.
In his first move against erring local officials, Lim suspended Kalinga Gov.
Dominador Belac for six months for the purchase of a luxury vehicle using
falsified documents.
"Everybody must be treated equally because nobody is above the law," Lim told
reporters.
At his first press conference since assuming the top post at the Department of
the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Lim made it clear a
[DatePublished] => 2000-01-14 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Romel Bagares
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