Headlines:
Grand scale espionage is being looked into by the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representative
as the main cause of recurring Chinese poaching
in the province as matters developed during the
committee’s inquiry here Saturday.
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The National government is offering to give to
Palawan 40% of the money that it will raise by securitizing
the royalties to be paid by Shell Exploration from
the Malampaya gas project, according to Vice Governor
David Ponce Leon.
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The mercury in the rocks and soil of Sta. Lourdes
is inorganic. That’s mercury without the elements
carbon and hydrogen, the building blocks of life,
attached to them. In the state they are presently
in; they harm no one. The solid inorganic mercury
in Sta. Lourdes is safe. The mercury in the water,
however, is organic mercury. It is “methyl
mercury.” Methyl is an atom of Carbon bonded
to four Hydrogen atoms. An atom of Mercury takes
the place of one of the Hydrogen atoms in methyl
mercury. Inorganic mercury is organified to methyl
mercury. In this form mercury is absorbed by the
body when ingested and then it stays there –
our normal mechanisms for excreting wastes and toxins
do not work for it. Methyl mercury is poison. Dimethyl
mercury which has two methyl groups attached to
a mercury is even more poisonous.
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The House foreign affairs committee will probe
deeper into the activities of Palawan-based Chinese
national Lucio Ong on suspicion that he may be acting
as a spy for the Chinese government. Chinese embassy
officials will be summoned in the next congressional
inquiry over Chinese poaching activities in Palawan
to shed light on Ong’s activities.
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The Bureau of Immigration and Deportation in the
province will have additional personnel for better
service and monitoring of foreigners in the province,
BID Commissioner Andrea Domingo said Thursday.
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The City administration recently dismissed as politically
motivated the series of press releases coming out
of national newspapers seeking to portray a negative
image of the City.
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