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Legacy-PRBank
fall
drains P.5-B
4,000 Bohol depositors victimized in scam
By
SEN GUINGGUING Jittery
depositors of the embattled Legacy-Pilipino Rural Bank conglomerate numbering
4,000 will be surprised to learn that the total haul in the double-your- money
transactions in Bohol was a mind-boggling half a billion pesos. But
when the smoke of the financial scandal settled down, it became clear that P500
million in Bohol deposits were flushed down the drain of the once mighty Legacy
Group.
The
information of this whooping amount carted off from | | |
depositors
now holding the empty bag was relayed to the Post by one of the receivers of the
Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. He refused to be identified for lack of authority
to reveal this classified information. FULL
STORY
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Chinese
consul charts
Sichuan children's visit
By
JUNE S. BLANCO
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Consul General Li Qinfeng visited Bohol recently to help chart the itinerary of
the visit early next year of 100 children from earthquake-stricken Sichuan province
in China.
Gov.
Erico Aumentado received in his office Qinfeng, the embassy's Third Secretary
Kong Xiangwen, Policy Affairs Liaison Officer Liu Lujun and Jameson Ong, assistant
to the chair of the Liwayway Group, and instructed his staff to coordinate with
the officials. FULL
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Alfonso
L Uy Promenade
up for unveiling in Loboc
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in death, let alone those whose lives he touched, his name still rings a bell. Thus,
the legendary exploits as a philanthropist par excellence of the late Alfonso
Uy will be relived on December 26 when a marker is unveiled in his honor during
ceremonies in his old hometown, Loboc. The
occasion honors the town's illustrious son with the Alfonso L. Uy Promenade which
was developed to cover a monumental engineering blunder. FULL
STORY
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Christmas
then and now
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has been a long way since the first Christmas 2008 years ago.
Back
then, the players were a man who didn't understand how his wife became pregnant,
a woman who didn't expect the unusual pregnancy and shepherds who couldn't explain
the heavenly sight that they were treated to. |
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rest were props that didn't fit into one's idea of a kingly birth: a manger that
smelled of refuse and animals who must have resented the intruders into their
domain at a time when they were about to call it a night. FULL
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