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                    [ArticleID] => 1307647
                    [Title] => Quezon lawmaker asks HRET to dismiss rival’s electoral protest
                    [Summary] => 

Quezon Rep. Angelina Tan has asked the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) to dismiss the election protest filed against her by Wigberto Tañada Jr.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1259681 [Title] => Quezon congressional bet loses case in SC [Summary] =>

A congressional candidate in Quezon in last May’s elections has lost a case in the Supreme Court (SC) against another candidate and the proclaimed winner, Rep. Angelina Tan.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 961795 [Title] => 2 lawmakers with pending cases assume office [Summary] =>

Two congresswomen with cases still pending with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have assumed office and started doing their job as new members of Congress.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 960046 [Title] => Quezon congresswoman barred from assuming post [Summary] =>

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has barred Quezon Rep. Angelina Tan from assuming office by canceling her proclamation by the provincial board of canvassers.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 960167 [Title] => Pag-upo ng Quezon Rep. pinigil ng Comelec [Summary] =>

Pinigil ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang pag-upo ni Quezon Rep. Angelina Tan matapos na kanselahin ng provincial board of canvassers ang kanyang proklamasyon.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1188808 [AuthorName] => Butch Quejada/Doris Franche-Borja [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 410294 [Title] => Removal of import tariff on cement opposed [Summary] => Former senator-turned consumer advocate Wigberto Tañada expressed strong opposition yesterday to the plan of the ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273624 [Title] => Government urged to undo trade blunder [Summary] => The multisectoral Fair Trade Alliance (FTA), a broad coalition pushing for trade and economic reforms, urged government to ensure a level playing field for Philippine industry in the ongoing trade and tariff policy review.

Wigberto Tañada, FTA lead convenor, said that the Philippine government should take advantage of this opportunity to correct its previous haphazard trade liberalization and tariff policies.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220729 [Title] => RP urged to ‘rearm’ after collapse of WTO talks [Summary] => Former Sen. Wigberto Tañada said yesterday the collapse of the 5th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico should impel the Philippines to immediately correct the country’s unilateral and accelerated tariff reduction program that was "too steep and too fast" even by the standards of the WTO itself.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196102 [Title] => Guingona bats for economic nationalism [Summary] => In the views of Vice President Tito Guingona and former Sen. Wigberto Tañada, the Philippines can only break away from its decades-old failure to industrialize if it adopts a nationalist economic agenda.

The prominent nationalist leaders expressed the same sentiments in addressing participants to a national conference of the Fair Trade Alliance that drafted its own agenda for national survival.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174020 [Title] => Scheme to avert collapse of RP industries due to tariff cuts proposed [Summary] => An alliance of industry, labor, agriculture, consumer and civil society groups has presented the government a six-point range of options to avert the collapse of many local industries and the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of workers due to the impending massive tariff reductions under the ASEAN Free Trade Area-Common Effective Preferential Tariff (AFTA-CEPT) scheme set to be fully implemented next year.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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