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                    [Title] => Appointees’ papers with CA since June
                    [Summary] => The appointment papers of all Cabinet members were submitted to the Commission on Appointments (CA) as early as June 23, Presidential Spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said yesterday.


Tiglao was reacting to reports that President Arroyo has not relayed the appointment papers to the CA, supposedly indicating that they may be removed from their positions.

This developed as the CA’s committee on foreign affairs recommended yesterday the confirmation of former Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr. as ambassador to Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105966 [Title] => Japan accepts Siazon [Summary] => The Japanese government has accepted the designation of former Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr. as Philippine ambassador to Tokyo even without his confirmation from the Commission on Appointments (CA).

In a note verbale dated April 30, the Japanese Embassy said Tokyo was pleased to grant its agrémont to the appointment of Siazon.
[DatePublished] => 2001-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105371 [Title] => Comelec: US forces gun-exempt [Summary] => To avoid legal hitches, the Commission on Elections (Co-melec) has exempted from the election gun ban American forces taking part in joint military exercises in various areas in Luzon from April 27 to May 18.

The Visiting Forces Agreement Commission said the Comelec has required the foreign affairs secretary’s office to furnish its committee on firearms and security personnel the list of actual participants to the "Balikatan 2001," which could number over 3,000.
[DatePublished] => 2001-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105305 [Title] => Maceda, 2 aides seek tax break for luxury cars [Summary] => Former Ambassador to Washington Ernesto Maceda and two advisers allegedly tried to bring into the country four luxury vehicles from the United States tax-free, records show.

In a Dec. 7 memorandum to Malacañang, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr. sought approval for the request of Maceda that he and advisers Rolleo Ignacio and Patricia Porras be given tax-exemption for their personal and household effects and motor vehicles.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 89460 [Title] => Siazon to seek treatment in US [Summary] => Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr. will take a two-month leave of absence beginning Feb. 1 to undergo treatment of a prostate-related ailment in the United States.

Siazon, foreign secretary since the Ramos administration, said President Estrada allowed him to go on leave and wished him good health.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 89054 [Title] => Lacson looking forward to peaceful retirement [Summary] => If he will have his way, the chief of the nation’s police force would like to retire quietly and without any controversy.

"My only ambition is to retire peacefully and to have a private life," Panfilo Lacson, Director General of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said yesterday.

Lacson arrived yesterday from a week-long trip to the United States which generated suspicion from the political opposition because Malacañang and the PNP kept quiet about it.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 125343 [Title] => Undersecretary Mike Toledo papalit kay Press Secretary Puno [Summary] => Maaaring pumalit kay Press Secretary Ricardo Puno kapag nagbitiw siya sa puwesto para kumandidatong senador sa susunod na taon ang undersecretary niyang si Mike Toledo.

Nilinaw ni Puno kahapon na wala pang katiyakan kung kailan siya magbibitiw kaya hindi totoo ang ulat na gagawin niya ito sa Disyembre 8. Ipinaliwanag niya na itinakda ng Commission on Elections sa Enero 2-14, 2001 ang petsa ng pagsusumite ng certificate of candidacy.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88724 [Title] => Pineda says he’s returning to RP [Summary] => A key figure in the jueteng scandal, alleged gambling lord Rodolfo "Bong" Pineda, is willing to return home from the United States and testify before the Senate to avoid deportation, Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr. said.

Siazon told reporters that Pineda had informed the Philippine consulate about his plan to return. Pineda’s wife, Mayor Lilia Pineda of Lubao, Pampanga, had told the Senate that he is in the US for a hair transplant.

Siazon did not say when Pineda would return and where he is staying in California.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88480 [Title] => Gloria: I will lead united opposition versus Estrada [Summary] => No more fence-sitting.

After resigning from her Cabinet post last week, Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday offered to unify the opposition against President Estrada whose administration is being battered by allegations of payoffs from illegal gambling lords.

"They (Estrada’s critics) are looking for a united opposition," she told a news conference after arriving from a trip to Europe and the Middle East. "In their call to action, I shall not disappoint them."
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1197838 [AuthorName] => by Liberty Dones And Rey Arquiza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105599 [Title] => Gov’t hopes OIC team will have better understanding of Mindanao [Summary] => Government officials expressed hopes that the fact-finding mission of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which is arriving today, would have a better understanding of the Mindanao situation as its members tour the island to assess the condition of Muslims there and the implementation of the 1996 peace agreement with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon Jr. earlier had admitted that the government has not yet fully implemented the peace pact with the MNLF.
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