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	<description>inside Philippine politics and beyond</description>
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		<title>More questions about that P11M &quot;cash advance&quot; stated by Chief Justice Corona in SEVEN of his SALNs </title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/13/more-questions-about-that-p11m-cash-advance-stated-by-chief-justice-corona-in-seven-of-his-salns/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/13/more-questions-about-that-p11m-cash-advance-stated-by-chief-justice-corona-in-seven-of-his-salns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making the judiciary accountable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basa-Guidote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QC Sheriff Joseph Bisnar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renato Corona impeachment trial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Exclusive By Raïssa Robles ONE OF THE THINGS Chief Justice Renato Corona has to prove to the impeachment court is that he correctly filled up his SALNs (Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth) and whatever errors or omissions they contain are minor and not enough to get him kicked out of office. One section of his SALN has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SC justices, military &amp; police top brass should disclose their SALNs to public – CSC Chief</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/06/sc-justices-military-police-top-brass-should-disclose-their-salns-to-public-csc-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/06/sc-justices-military-police-top-brass-should-disclose-their-salns-to-public-csc-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 10:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Plaza Miranda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenda Gloria of Rappler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statement of Assets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overseas properties &#38; foreign currency should all be disclosed  A Plaza Miranda Exclusive By Raïssa Robles Justices of the Supreme Court as well as police and military generals should disclose their assets to the public, said the head of the independent agency overseeing such disclosures. Civil Service Commission Chairman Francisco Duque told me in an exclusive interview: The Supreme Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My South China Morning Post piece on dispute is being shared on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/03/my-south-china-morning-post-piece-on-dispute-is-being-shared-on-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/03/my-south-china-morning-post-piece-on-dispute-is-being-shared-on-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy and geopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South China Morning Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Singer-songwriter Jim Paredes posted on my Facebook wall my recent story on the South China Sea standoff.  I don&#8217;t know how he got it. For those who are not on Facebook,   I would like to share what he posted: Sorry, I don&#8217;t have a copy of the actual published story. But the title says it all. You see the word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is China after the Philippines&#039; oil &amp; gas fields? </title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/01/is-china-after-the-philippines-oil-gas-fields/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/05/01/is-china-after-the-philippines-oil-gas-fields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy and geopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spratlys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China's nine-dashed line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine Department of Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sampaguita gas field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarborough Shoal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exclusive By Raïssa Robles Filipinos groaning from high power bills might have good reason to be concerned about China&#8217;s claims in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). Philippine government officials have expressed apprehension that China  may be after the oil and gas-rich areas there, including  the Sampaguita gas field recently discovered by an oil exploration firm under contract with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>246</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will President Aquino now fulfill his father&#039;s promise on Hacienda Luisita?</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/27/will-president-aquino-now-fulfill-his-fathers-promise-on-hacienda-luisita/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/27/will-president-aquino-now-fulfill-his-fathers-promise-on-hacienda-luisita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handholding democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benigno Aquino Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Justice Renato Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Monsod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hacienda Luisita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice and land reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generation by Nick Joaquin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My exclusive By Raïssa Robles Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay presented an interesting proposition to one of his godsons. Magsaysay had heard that the Spanish owners of Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinasa or Tabacalera wanted to sell off their remaining asset in Tarlac &#8211; the sugar estate Hacienda Luisita which consisted of a sugar mill called the Central Azucarera de [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>308</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why get so riled up over some rocks under the sea?</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/23/why-get-so-riled-up-over-some-rocks-under-the-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/23/why-get-so-riled-up-over-some-rocks-under-the-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy and geopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bajo de Masinloc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRP Edsa 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRP Gregorio del Pilar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Embassy in Manila]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chito Sta. Romana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr You Ji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Zou Keyuan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Former Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hainan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hua Zhang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarborough Shoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spokesman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spratlys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yuzheng-310]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Scarborough standoff is between an elephant and an ant &#8211;  Domingo Siazon, former foreign secretary   My exclusive By Raïssa Robles Why is the Philippines quarreling with China over a reef that sinks mostly under the sea at high tide? And why should Filipinos care who controls Scarborough Shoal? Scarborough Shoal is a triangle-shaped reef with a circumference of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corona told Palace reporter Mia Gonzalez his dad was a BIR official</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/15/corona-told-reporter-his-father-was-a-bureau-of-internal-revenue-official/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/15/corona-told-reporter-his-father-was-a-bureau-of-internal-revenue-official/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making the judiciary accountable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cristina Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marites Danguilan-Vitug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mia Gonzalez of Business Mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsbreak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SC spokesman, however, said Corona&#8217;s parents had money Exclusive by Raïssa Robles Chief Justice Renato Corona could afford to own luxury properties like the Bellagio penthouse because he was  a man &#8220;not of ordinary means&#8221;, Supreme Court spokesman Midas Marquez said. In one interview Marquez gave to ABS-CBN&#8217; Umagang Kay Ganda last December, Marquez said: Dapat nating isipin, hindi sa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Sy, Sr. would have stopped the cutting of Baguio&#039;s pine trees</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/11/henry-sy-sr-would-have-stopped-the-cutting-of-baguios-pine-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/11/henry-sy-sr-would-have-stopped-the-cutting-of-baguios-pine-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big business and the environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science&Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Sy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SM malls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SM Supermalls president Annie Garcia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sr.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Raïssa Robles Having watched SM grow from one Manila shoe store into a giant conglomerate today, I believe the founder Henry Sy Sr. would have stopped tree-cutting as soon as he saw the sharply negative reaction of Baguio residents. I believe this because it was not all business with Mr Sy, who willingly spent millions just to house a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Happy Easter to all of us!</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/08/a-happy-easter-to-all-of-us/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/08/a-happy-easter-to-all-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art and Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Easter this year has particularly been meaningful for me. First, I&#8217;m inspired to find Filipinos all over the world who continue to be concerned for their Motherland. It is this discovery that has energized and heartened me,  what my hubby Alan calls &#8220;bayanihan in the cyber-age.&#8221; I also think many of those gathering around my website are Filipinos who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Rosal: A woman for others</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/04/rosa-rosal-a-woman-for-others/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/04/rosa-rosal-a-woman-for-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine National Red Cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramoln Magsaysay Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosa Rosal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[I would like to share with you this story  I wrote, which remains relevant to this day. Here is one individual who truly deserved the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service. She is a Filipina ahead of her time and one I truly admire. Ms. Rosal turns 81 this year.] &#160; Philippine domestic helper Marivic Parrenas was jailed in Saudi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important announcement: about this week</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/02/important-announcement-about-this-week/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/04/02/important-announcement-about-this-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear everyone, I will be doing two things this week - Site maintenance And contemplation  Because of the difficulties that many of you have been experiencing going into my site,  I have decided to devote the next few days to trying to solve this problem. Please bear with me. There may be times that my site will not be available [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>230</slash:comments>
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		<title>Take your pain and turn it into something wonderful, girls</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/31/take-your-pain-and-turn-it-into-something-wonderful-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/31/take-your-pain-and-turn-it-into-something-wonderful-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bikini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Theresa's College]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To the Theresians in bikini from a true-blue Theresian By Raïssa Robles So the universe seems to have crashed all around you. The entire school knows who you all are and the whole world has been told of your folly (thanks to the foreign wires). I&#8217;ve just heard that one of you is even contemplating suicide. Don&#8217;t. Please let me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A curious set of transactions surround McKinley Hill purchase for Charina</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/29/a-curious-set-of-transactions-surround-mckinley-hill-purchase-for-charina/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/29/a-curious-set-of-transactions-surround-mckinley-hill-purchase-for-charina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making the judiciary accountable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charina Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Justice Renato Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McKinley Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roseville]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis By Raïssa Robles McKinley Hill in The Fort looks like a slice of California. It is therefore understandable that someone like Charina Corona, who has lived for nearly a decade in the United States, would want a unit here. In fact she holds the title to one of the units. How Charina came to hold the title is quite interesting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corona&#039;s daughter bought California and The Fort properties 22 days of each other </title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/26/coronas-daughter-bought-california-and-the-fort-properties-22-days-of-each-other/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/26/coronas-daughter-bought-california-and-the-fort-properties-22-days-of-each-other/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making the judiciary accountable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Justice Renato Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Charina Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roseville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tranquil Salvador]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Plaza Miranda Exclusive By Raïssa Robles Soon after Chief Justice Renato Corona categorically denied that he and his family owned any property in the United States, a California lawyer sent me documentary evidence showing the purchase of a house in Roseville, California by the chief magistrate&#8217;s youngest daughter, Charina. This purchase was made 22 days before she allegedly bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Renato C. Corona have a clone living in the US?</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/24/does-renato-c-corona-have-a-clone-living-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2012/03/24/does-renato-c-corona-have-a-clone-living-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judiciary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making the judiciary accountable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carla Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charina Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cristina Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myLife.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PeopleSmart.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renato C. Corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomas "Buddy" Gomez III]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Plaza Miranda exclusive By Raïssa Robles I&#8217;m asking this question because a certain Renato C. Corona is linked to addresses in Tampa, Florida and Mountain View, California by US public records. Take for instance this address in Tampa - This is the property - And here&#8217;s the close-up - Another address mentioned is Mountain View in California, home of [...]]]></description>
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