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Scope of Ombudsman’s powers

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Finally, it’s over. Chief Justice Renato Corona has been dismissed from the Supreme Court. After five long months, his impeachment trial is now history. Regardless of our thoughts about his guilt or innocence, the senator-judges have spoken and their verdict should be respected by everybody.

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‘Which business growing idea will work for a provincial hotel?’

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We’re a group of graduating marketing students this coming school year. We’re enrolled now in a northern Luzon university doing summer make-up classes. For our summer course’s marketing project, our professor has assigned us to apply to one of the hotels in our province your series on business growing. He has permitted us to write you and ask some questions. But please do not identify us in your answer.

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Impeachment: Hope for the farmers

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Delsa Flores, the former court interpreter who lost her job because she did not declare in her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth that she owned a market stall, was asked what lessons could be drawn from the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

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Asian markets, euro hit by Spain fears

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Traders watch the monitor at a money brokerage in Tokyo. Asian markets fell for a second day Thursday, May 31, 2012, as Spain's banking crisis threatened to spin out of control and force Madrid into a financial rescue.  AP PHOTO/SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI

Asian markets fell for a second day and the euro sank to new lows Thursday as Spain’s banking crisis threatened to spin out of control and force Madrid into a financial rescue.

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Palace confident 6.4% 1st-quarter growth sustainable

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Malacañang expressed confidence Thursday that the Philippines would maintain “the positive trajectory” of the 6.4 percent GDP growth registered in the first quarter.

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Shell introduces new generation of premium fuels

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Oil giant Shell will replace its Shell V-Power and Shell Super Premium fuels with a new generation of premium fuels namely: Shell V-Power Nitro+Gasoline, Shell V-Power Nitro+Racing and Shell V-Power Nitro+Diesel starting Friday.

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PSEi closes sharply up on high-growth news

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Stock prices on Thursday recovered from losses in the morning session to close sharply higher in the afternoon on the back of positive economic news.

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Jakarta ‘slum tourism’ treads between aid and exploitation

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“I decided to experience the real Jakarta,” said a tourist, stepping gingerly between puddles of putrid water and a scurrying rat in a scene that would never make a postcard.

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Retailers cut LPG prices by P5-P5.50 per kg

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Retailers of cooking gas have slashed prices by P5 to P5.50 per kilogram, effective Friday, to reflect the continued drop in the international contract price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

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Oil prices fall further as Spain worries intensify

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Oil extended losses in Asian trade Thursday, with prices hitting multi-month lows as Spain’s banking woes intensified worries about the eurozone, analysts said.

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Japan’s April vehicle output soars 174%

Nissan Motor Co.'s gas-engine NV200 vehicle is displayed at the automaker's headquarters in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Japan's auto sector on Thursday, May 31, 2012, reported huge increases in production for April from a year earlier.  AP PHOTO/ITSUO INOUYE

Japan’s auto sector on Thursday reported huge increases in production for April from a year earlier, reflecting a steep recovery after last year’s quake-tsunami disaster crippled output and demand.

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India jolted by weak growth data

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A rag-picker girl paddles her rickshaw carrying her friends after collecting polythene bags in Allahabad, India, on May 6, 2012. India's economy grew 6.5 percent for year to March 2012, lower than the government's estimate of 6.9 percent and far below the 8.4 percent of the previous year, data showed Thursday, May 31, 2012.  AP PHOTO/RAJESH KUMAR SINGH

India’s economy grew a lower-than-expected 5.3 percent in the final quarter of the fiscal year, data showed Thursday, piling pressure on the embattled government.

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