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Sona 2009
‘Arroyos have good financial advisers’
MANILA - The key to the P10.97 million yearly increases in the Arroyo couple’s wealth was their choice of savvy financial managers. According to Ruy Rondain, the lawyer of First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, the dramatic jump in the wealth of the Arroyo couple since 2001 is clear: “As far as the stocks are concerned, at least, they had very good financial advisers.”
abs-cbnNEWS.com 08/11/2009 10:51 PM
Gov't spent P45M on road to lot Arroyo sold for P42M
Last December, First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo sold a 29,630-square meter agricultural lot in Bulacan for P41.5 million. The transaction may help explain the sudden increase in President Arroyo’s net worth from 2007 to 2008. Yet from several angles, it is a deal that invites more questions than the answers it purportedly provides.
by Karol Anne M. Ilagan, PCIJ 08/11/2009 2:36 AM
Palace: No anomalies in Arroyo's wealth declaration
MANILA - The legal counsels of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and First Gentleman Mike Arroyo on Monday said there were no irregularities in the president's Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Networth (SALN) following the release of a Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) report that Arroyo had become much richer since she became president in 2001.
abs-cbnNEWS.com 08/10/2009 9:22 PM
Can President Arroyo explain her wealth?
First of Three Parts
A FORTNIGHT ago in her ninth State of the Nation Address, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo fired sharp, staccato broadsides at her critics, and in a tone bold and boastful declared: “I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit.”
By Malou Mangahas, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism 08/10/2009 12:04 AM
Boto Patroller’s report helps solve TESDA problem
Tuloy na ang pag-aaral ng mahigit 100 kabataan sa Pila, Laguna matapos maaksyunan ang inilapit nilang problema sa iReport, kaugnay na SONA Mo, i-Patrol Mo. TV Patrol Linggo, Agosto 9, 2009
abs-cbnNEWS.com 08/09/2009 11:54 PM
SONA one week after: Sin tax reforms deferred
MANILA - Apparently considering the tobacco and liquor industry position that the planned new unitary excise-tax scheme was “ill-timed and [will] likely cause more harm than good” to the bigger goal of optimizing revenue flows, the government has shelved the plan until 2012, Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran said on Tuesday night.
By Jun Vallecera, Business Mirror 08/06/2009 1:51 AM
Erratum on SONA jobs numbers
On July 28, 2009, abs-cbnNEWS.com published a story, "Arroyo missed own jobs target," which implied that the government claimed to generate more jobs than what data the National Statistics Office (NSO) presented.
abs-cbnNEWS.com 08/03/2009 6:34 PM
An OFW’s reaction on criticisms of the SONA
Sa totoo nga ay nasa oposisyon ang mandaraya dahil doon po sa aking presinto na alam kong maraming bumoto kay Brod. Eddie pero pagdating ng counting, pang-apat lang siya. Okay natapos na po iyong 2004 election at masugid kong binatayan sa pamamagitan ng telebisyon, pahayagan at iba pa ang performance ng Pangulo at masasabi ko na siya na yata ang nakita kong Pangulo na sobrang pagka-hardwork, naroroon siya sa mga lugar sa oras ng mga kalamidad, marami siyang nagawa na mga infrastructure and development sa ating bansa.
By Vic Garciso de Asis, reader 07/31/2009 5:56 PM