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...“There’s a lot of people that look pretty bad that I think definitely shouldn’t be here . . . it’s pretty worrying,” said César Becerril, a 44-year-old chauffeur who arrived at 5.30am....
...Mr Holmes and Gustavo Moreno, the head of the police force, both asked for forgiveness for police actions. “We don’t recognise ourselves in this behaviour,” Mr Moreno said, referring to the video....
...Mr Moreno Ocampo, who as an internationalist jurist has seen several peace accords, insists the “unique” deal must go ahead....
...As the country hosts the World Economic Forum summit on East Asia, Philippine finance minister Cesar Purisima talks to the FT's Roel Landingin about the country's growth prospects, the need for tax collection...
...Cesar Purisima, finance secretary, told the FT the Philippine government had been taken by surprise by the course of the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year....
...Cesar Purisima, the finance secretary, said the third-quarter GDP growth of 7.1 per cent was “much higher than the trend growth of 4.7 per cent of the past ten years,” noting it was achieved amid a tough...
...The country’s finance secretary, Cesar Purisima, welcomed the higher ratings, even though he has been outspoken about his view that the Philippines already deserves an investment-grade rating....
...As Cesar Purisima, the finance secretary, points out, the Philippines, with an average age of 22 – the lowest in Asia – is about to hit its “demographic sweetspot”....
...The finance secretary, Cesar Purisima, said most rail projects lose money and are subsidised by governments anyway....
...Luis Moreno-Ocampo was assistant prosecutor to Julio César Strassera and helped to sentence Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Eduardo Massera (first junta) to life imprisonment....
...Cesar Purisima, the finance secretary, said: “This Philippine Peso Global Bond issuance is the latest development in the Republic’s financing programme in support of the government’s proactive management...
...Cesar Purisima, Mr Aquino confirmed on Tuesday, will return to the post of finance secretary which he left in 2005 after a falling out with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the current president....
...Cesar Purisima, the finance secretary, wants citizens to tweet cases of tax evasion and corruption among tax collectors or report them on Facebook....
...“It’s a system built on the basis of paranoia,” said Cesar Flores, president of the Asia-Pacific unit of the company whose previous biggest contract was to supply over 40,000 vote counting machines in Venezuela...
...Subsidised rice will account for up to 30 per cent of rice consumed in Manila, up from only 10-15 per cent now, according to Cesar Gatchalian, an economist at the NFA....
...military eliminated three of the Farc’s seven key leaders, pushed it further back from long-held territory and lured away more than 1,000 Farc deserters, including high-ranking guerrillas such as Nelly Avila Moreno...
...Mrs Macapagal also said she would soon be naming new members of her cabinet after finance secretary Cesar Purisima and other cabinet members resigned on Friday morning and called for her to relinquish the...
...Cesar Purisima, the new finance secretary, called the two-notch ratings cut, which brought the Philippines credit ratings to four levels below investment grade, “too severe”....
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