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...I didn’t grow up in a city – I’m from Minnesota and moved here 10 years ago – so I’m an American in Paris living a dream....
...Estate, Arroyo de las Cañas, Estepona, €20mn Where On Arroyo las Cañas road, about 15 minutes’ drive from the resort town of Estepona on the Costa del Sol and five minutes from the beach....
...(“I’m just popping out to look at some plants,” I breezily — and deliberately vaguely — informed my husband as I set off.) BCSS sales are a brilliant way of building a succulent collection....
...“I’m not so sure about Fernández, though, as he is fighting on so many different fronts,” he added....
...I was right,” recalls Mr Arroyo....
...“I’m not saying everybody should be vegetarian, but we need a balance,” she adds....
..., including the Aquinos and Ms Arroyo....
...His appointment, initially by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then by Benigno Aquino, the current president, means he is now in his 11th year Whether by skill or luck, it has probably helped that...
...“She has failed to really define her candidacy,” says Victor Manhit at Bower Group Asia. “She has failed to answer the question: now we trust you, we like you, where will you lead us?”...
...“I’m not diabetic, even though everyone in my family died of diabetes,” he says, adding his weight hovers between 90kg and 110kg....
...“I’m now coming out to prove that I am not hiding and that I am not guilty.” Mrs Arroyo’s critics are expected to round on her for the soft treatment accorded to Mr Ampatuan....
...As we drove up the winding dirt track towards the massacre site, they scanned the hillsides with their M-16 rifles....
...It appears that gunmen loyal to a local politician attacked a convoy of his opponents and slaughtered them, as well as 12 accompanying journalists, with M-16 rifles and machetes....
...“But,” he said last month, “I’m now a proper capitalist.”...
...“Those working in export-oriented industries in Asia and private construction projects in the Middle East are the most vulnerable to lay-offs,” says Victor Fernandez, head of the Philippine Association of...
...Arroyo seeks military budget boost Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the Philippine president, will ask Congress to boost the military budget to combat the country’s growing Muslim insurgency, the armed forces chief...
...victor.mallet@ft.com...
...“Now, with Arroyo hounded by the same allegations, many people are starting to think it doesn’t really matter.”...
...“I’m not going to comment on them, which is a shame,” Minow said. “I always had a lot of fun bashing them.”...
...I’m even biased towards raising my growth projections,” said Frederic Neumann, regional economist at HSBC. The government expects the economy to grow by 6.1-6.7 per cent this year....
...“I’m not sure that living in this house has directly inspired my work but I feel very comfortable living in a place with lots of wood, rather than if I was surrounded by stucco and cement.”...
...“I’m not a bad-looking guy, but nobody’s looking at me,” he said. “Jessica can open all these doors. That’s a unique team member.”...
...José Miguel Arroyo, husband of Philippines president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is the latest Asian leader to deploy defamation suits to try to silence journalists whose articles he does not like, launching...
...The topic of Arroyo’s speech at 7 p.m. (1200 BST) was not revealed by her spokesman Ignacio Bunye, prompting speculation she might break her silence on controversial recordings that the opposition says prove...
...She encouraged her critics and opponents to “take your grievances to Congress where I’m very willing to submit to due process called for by the constitution.”...
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