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Palace: Go to court
on Palawan oil deal
Confused over area named by Trillanes?

BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR

MABALACAT, Pampanga. - Deputy presidential spokesman Anthony Golez on Tuesday dared detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV to file charges in court and substantiate his latest allegations that President Arroyo violated the Constitution when the country entered into a joint exploration agreement in Palawan with China.

Golez denied that the Philippine government agreed to a partnership with China's state-owned China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) where it would have 51 percent ownership of the working interest in a 7,200 square-kilometers area in and around the Calamian Island in Palawan.

Trillanes on Monday said the government and China signed the "farm-in exploration agreement" on April 2, 2006 through Philippine National Oil Company-Exploration Corporation and CNOOC.

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SC ruling on Neri out next week

BY EVANGELINE DE VERA

WITH its membership complete, the Supreme Court yesterday said it will rule on Tuesday on the petition of acting Higher Education chairman Romulo Neri related to his appearance before the Senate hearing on the national broadband network project.

Court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said Chief Justice Reynato Puno told the court during an en banc session yesterday that the case would be decided on before the end of the month.

This means that the high court will decide on the case before the start of its summer sessions in Baguio City on April 1.

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Top grad commits to act
as people's protector

BY VICTOR REYES

FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City - The valedictorian of this year's Philippine Military Academy Class of Baghawi (Bagong Halaw ng Lahi) on Tuesday asked his classmates to be "agents of positive change" and uphold their "duty and mandate of being the protector of the people and our Constitution."

In his valedictory address, now Navy Ensign Ariel Rallos told the 219 other members of the class "to exhibit the values and character that we have developed during our years of stay here in the academy."

"We have proven our worth as cadets having been declared graduates. But our commitment should not stop here. We should continue to strive for excellence and to make remarkable contributions to the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the people and the nation," he said.

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BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS

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No Padyak Pinoy this summer

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LIVING

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