The Philippine government is also coming under pressure to do more to protect the Filipino clan.
The Philippine government encourages Filipino immigrants to send gifts and spend money in their homeland.
So in 1997 it encouraged the Philippine government to let a concession to a Suez subsidiary.
However, neither we nor the new Philippine government should be deterred by Chinese bluster from doing what is right.
The Malaysian foreign minister hinted last week that the Philippine government should get on with it and pay up.
Chinese military expansion in the Spratlys is now regarded by the Philippine government as the country's main external threat.
The hut was physical evidence of the Philippine government's prediction that the impasse is likely to continue for months.
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Rebels had detained the peacekeepers, identified by the Philippine government as Filipino, in a Syrian village near the Golan Heights.
Afterward the Philippine government banned Wynn from operating anywhere in the country, although he had never expressed interest in doing that.
The Philippine government's Heart Center in Manila attracts as many affluent patients as poor ones because of its high standards of medical expertise.
The casino has been licensed by the Philippine government through its regulatory body, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming, Sage said in a statement.
"We've done everything we could to prevent this, but in the end, Mr. Kiram's people chose this path, " Philippine government spokesman Ricky Carandang said.
It warns that Beijing and Taiwan will definitely join hands if the Philippine government continues to shield its "barbarous act" by "wittering on about the 'one-China policy'".
Governments of countries with citizens among the 21 people held on Jolo appear to be growing impatient with the Philippine government's attempts to preserve its no-ransom fiction.
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Last week the Philippine government sent the Cambodian ambassador packing.
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But the Philippine government ridicules the notion that the New People's Army, estimated by the armed forces to number about 11, 000, could ever take power by force of arms.
Most interestingly, while Philippine government vessels have withdrawn from the shoal area in an agreement reportedly struck by both sides in June 2012, the Chinese governmental vessels have apparently yet to comply.
However, Taipei's United Daily News blasts Taiwan Foreign Minister David Lin for "misleading" the public by "whitewashing" Philippine envoy Antonio Basilio's apology on behalf of the people of the Philippines - rather than the Philippine government.
But the deal has to be given final approval by the victims (some of whom complain of a sell-out), the Philippine government and the Marcos family, together with courts in the Philippines, the United States and Switzerland.
The bright lights of the cameras bothered his eyes, and a friend back home mistook his victory picture for one of Corazon Aquino, who was in the news for having just overthrown the Philippine government of Ferdinand Marcos.
The Philippine government said Chinese surveillance vessels intervened to prevent any arrests, leading to the standoff, and that Filipino sailors who inspected the Chinese vessels on Tuesday found illegally collected corals and live sharks in one of the fishing boats.
"The Philippine government's reaction to the barbaric shooting incident has proved one thing: As an irresponsible country which behaves clumsily in foreign affairs, the Philippines is digging itself into a deeper hole with a rogue diplomatic policy, " Beijing's Global Times says.
Chief Philippine government negotiator Robert Aventajado said he was confident that all of the remaining hostages, including four Europeans from among the original 21 kidnapped at the Malaysian island resort of Sipadan in late April and a Filipino man, would be released after payment of additional "development aid" by Tripoli.
"Essentially we've been talking about the poor, but we haven't had a real understanding of who the poor are, what kind of resources they have available, what we can do so they can really participate in the development of the economy and of the country, " says Ronaldo Zamora, executive secretary of the Philippine government.
The Philippine government said Tuesday it had tried bring a peaceful end to the standoff by sending Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario to Malaysia urge restraint, while Philippine President Benigno Aquino III twice appeared on national television in recent days to urge Mr. Kiram's followers to lay down their arms and end their quest.
This week, while Malaysians demonstrated in front of the Philippine embassy, the Malaysian government announced that it would be allowing in 120, 000 new foreign workers from Indonesia and Thailand.
At least 33 people, including children, were injured by collapsed walls and falling debris in the hard-hit North Cotabato villages of Kimadzil and Kibugtongan, said Hermes Daquipa, a Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology official who joined a government team that surveyed the hilly villages.
Still, 27 heads of state or government are expected in the Swiss mountains - including UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.
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