FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING

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The US State Department has allocated over $178 million in foreign assistance to the Philippines in its budget for fiscal year 2014, some $32 million more than what was actually provided in FY 2012.

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                    [AuthorName] => Jose Katigbak
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                    [Title] => Phl told to stamp out extrajudicial killings
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The United States’ assistance to the Philippine military that the US Congress continues to withhold until the government meets certain conditions related to solving and prosecuting cases of extrajudicial killings already amounts to $13 million for the past five years.
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                    [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago
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                    [Title] => US increases development, security aid to RP
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The United States has increased its development and security assistance to the Philippines for fiscal year 2010 to $135.1 million, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced yesterday.
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                    [Title] => US to increase assistance to RP next year
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo said Thursday the US Congress has increased Washington's development and security assistance to the Philippines to $135.1 million next year.
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The United States government plans to cut by two-thirds its military assistance to the Philippines, which is supposedly to benefit the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.



According to a report by the US State Department, Foreign Military Financing (FMF) for the AFP was down to $11 million from almost $30 million for the fiscal year 2008.  The International Military Exchange Program (IMET) program for the Philippines was also reduced to $1.5 million from $2.9 million.


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                    [Title] => 300 years in a convent, 50 years in Hollywood (and still counting…)
                    [Summary] => Three hundred years in a convent and 50 years in Hollywood – this roughly sums up our colonial history. Unfortunately we’re still in Hollywood (not that I’m making a dig at the  "Men In Black"), and by the looks of it, we shall remain in Hollywood for quite some time.


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                    [Title] => US backs Arroyo’s reforms
                    [Summary] => The United States supports the reforms President Arroyo has put on track, said Thomas Hubbard, the US acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.


Since assuming the presidency on Jan. 20, Mrs. Arroyo has already launched "an ambitious agenda to put the Philippines securely on the reform track," Hubbard told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs in a testimony delivered March 6.


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US hikes foreign aid to Phl

By Jose Katigbak | April 28, 2013 - 12:00am

The US State Department has allocated over $178 million in foreign assistance to the Philippines in its budget for fiscal...

Headlines

Phl told to stamp out extrajudicial killings

By Pia Lee-Brago | June 23, 2012 - 12:00am

The United States’ assistance to the Philippine military that the US Congress continues to withhold until the government meets certain conditions related to solving and prosecuting cases of extrajudicial killings...

Headlines

US increases development, security aid to RP

By Pia Lee-Brago | December 18, 2009 - 12:00am

The United States has increased its development and security assistance to the Philippines for fiscal year 2010 to $135.1 million, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced yesterday.

Business

US to increase assistance to RP next year

December 17, 2009 - 6:45pm

Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo said Thursday the US Congress has increased Washington's development and security assistance to the Philippines to $135.1 million next year.

US gov't cuts aid to RP military, police

July 25, 2007 - 2:43pm

The United States government plans to cut by two-thirds its military assistance to the Philippines, which is supposedly to benefit the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police. According...

Nation

300 years in a convent, 50 years in Hollywood (and still counting…)

September 22, 2002 - 12:00am

Three hundred years in a convent and 50 years in Hollywood – this roughly sums up our colonial history. Unfortunately we’re still in Hollywood (not that I’m making a dig at the "Men In Black"),...

Opinion

US backs Arroyo’s reforms

March 17, 2001 - 12:00am

The United States supports the reforms President Arroyo has put on track, said Thomas Hubbard, the US acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Since assuming the presidency on Jan....

Headlines