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                    [ArticleID] => 1279999
                    [Title] => P200K reward up in councilor’s killing
                    [Summary] => 

Apayao Gov. Elias Bulut Jr. is offering a P200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killers of Councilor Bienvenido Verzola III of Luna town.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1279165 [Title] => Apayao town councilor gunned down [Summary] =>

Police probers are eyeing personal grudge in last Monday night’s killing of a 39-year-old councilor in Luna town in Apayao.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 680940 [Title] => Modern rice farm system pushed [Summary] =>

A modern system of growing rice, the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), has spread to more than 30 countries.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 571892 [Title] => Plot to disrupt voting bared [Summary] =>

Some groups are plotting to undermine the automated election system by trying to delay or prevent voting, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) disclosed yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354230 [Title] => Mas mo-grabe kono ang tikas kon ma-automated na ang eleksiyon [Summary] => Dii man eksperto sa computer, apan sa ubos kong pangagpas, morag mas sayon ang pagpanikas pinaagi sa computer kay sa ato karong naandan nga mano-mano. .

Si Roberto Verzola sa Business World, nagkanayon: "The public will lose its chance to witness the votes as these are individually counted, and will be shown only when the canvassing is over." Sa ato pa, ma-wa'a ang transparency, kon ma-automated na. Wa'a nay makabantay sa counting, wa'a nay mga watcher. Ug natural, mas makapatuyang ang mga tikasan. Pilde gihapon ang lungsod.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1129613 [AuthorName] => Antolin dela Cerna [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 310087 [Title] => Strict implementation of EIS rules on projs in agri lands urged [Summary] => A civil society group is urging the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to reinforce rules requiring companies to submit an environmental impact statement (EIS) for environmentally-critical projects done in prime agricultural lands.

Roberto Verzola, leader of the Philippine Greens Institute (PGI), said the DENR should issue another special order reiterating the implementation of Department Administrative Order 37 which outlines rules on field testing of GM crops since this has never been enforced since 2002.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308926 [Title] => BPI scored over modified corn variety [Summary] => The Philippine Greens Institute (PGI) is questioning the "arbitrary approval" by the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) of the commercialization of the country’s third genetically modified corn variety, the stack-trait corn developed by multinational seed producer Monsanto.

"We challenge the BPI to call for independent research and risk assessment that will present evidences that the stack-trait corn variety poses no potential hazards to health and the environment," said PGI leader Obet Verzola.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 207099 [Title] => Hunger strike vs Bt corn lifted [Summary] => Advocates against a genetically engineered corn variety — Bt corn — lifted their 30-day hunger strike yesterday but vowed a more aggressive campaign against it and other similar crops.

The hunger strikers, led by Roberto Verzola, took yesterday their first solid food of organically grown corn and its soup.

"We did everything humanely possible to stop the Bt seeds at the source. The government has failed us," Verzola said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205621 [Title] => American joins hunger strike vs genetically modified corn [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Twenty-nine-year-old American Andrew Haralam trekked to this city not for a vacation, but for a "cause."

For four days now, Haralam has been consuming only mango juice and water in a hunger strike at the People’s Park here against the Bt corn, a genetically engineered corn variety marketed by US firm Monsanto.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146894 [Title] => Lenny Villa’s mom slams CA ruling [Summary] => After 11 years, justice remains elusive to this grieving mother.

Gerarda Villa, mother of Lenny Villa who died in February 1991 due to severe beatings he got during initiation rites of the Ateneo Law School’s Aquila Legis fraternity, expressed disappointment over a Court of Appeals (CA) ruling handed down Friday exonerating 19 of 26 accused in the case.

"I am so disappointed. It hurts to see that after all these years, justice remains elusive for my son," Villa said yesterday in a telephone interview.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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