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	Philippine National Railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philippine National Railways (PNR), a state-owned railway company under the Department of Transportation and Communication of the Philippines, was created in its present form in
		This is highlighted by the fact that the more recent Light Railway Transit (LRT) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) systems in Metro Manila have both been constructed to the international standard gauge of 1435 mm (4 feet 8.5 inches).
		The pinnacle of Philippine passenger railway operations was reached during the late
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philippine_National_Railways

	List of railway companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Peru (ENAFER) (Peruvian National Railways)
		Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles (ENFER) (Bolivia National Railways)
		EVR Estonian Railways - Eesti Raudtee (privatised 2001)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_railway_companies

	The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION > The railroad in Philippine history
		GOVERNMENT officials are blaming the Philippine National Railways (PNR) and thieves for the train derailment that killed 10 and hurt more than a hundred passengers in Padre Burgos, Quezon, on Friday.
		tc "The national railways were more reliable in the 1890s when the Spanish civil government pioneered the system.
		The national railways were more reliable in the 1890s when the Spanish civil government pioneered the system.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/nov/16/yehey/opinion/20041116opi1.html

	Philippine National Railways - Wikipedia
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	Executive Summary of the 2000 Annual Audit Report on the Philippine National Railways (PNR)
		The Philippine National Railways (PNR) was created under RA 4156 as amended by RA 6366 and PD 741 to provide railways facilities/services being a factor for the country’s socio-economic development growth.
		PNR’s major programs/projects which involve the rehabilitation of main Line South and Commuter Line South, including restoration works on typhoon damaged areas/sections, were fully implemented as of December 31, 1998.
		Of the nine (9) audit recommendations embodied in the 1999 Annual Audit Report of PNR, only one (1) was fully implemented; two (2) were partially implemented and six (6) were not implemented.
	www.coa.gov.ph /coa_htm/2000_AAR/GOCCs/PNR/PNR_es00.htm

	Country Profile: Philippines
		Headed by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), telecom operators and their foreign partners are embarking on major programs to meet their commitment with the government and to be competitive in the market.
		The Philippine Government Administration is committed to improving the overall trade and investment climate to open the economy to greater foreign participation.
		Industrial centers being established in major locations in the Philippines are required to put up common wastewater treatment facilities under the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board guidelines for industrial estate establishments.
	www.state.hi.us /dbedt/ert/phili.html

	The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION > Looking for a sane public transport system
		The study noted that most of Philippine forest and mountain lands were pristine as late as 1945 but that the degradation began in 1950, when Japan sent to the Philippines secondhand mining and logging equipment and fishing boats instead of cash for war reparations.
		National and local governments allowed squatters to seize lands owned by the PNR and there build their hovels.
		tc "National and local governments allowed squatters to seize lands owned by the PNR and there build their hovels.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/oct/26/yehey/opinion/20041026opi1.html

	15 GOCCs MAY FACE ABOLITION
		One-third of the national budget is allocated for debt servicing, a third goes to the wages of government workers and remaining one-third of the budget is divided among various government agencies.
		The Arroyo administration and Congress are now focusing on increasing the efficiency of tax and revenue collections, plugging revenue leaks, cutting expenses for and losses of GOCCs and GFIs and a more transparent and less flexible itemized national budget to stave off a fiscal crisis.
		The National Power Corp. (Napocor) alone is receiving P100 billion in government subsidies annually to cover interest payments on its estimated P600 billion debt.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/hl/hl101099.htm

	China to Help Philippine Build Railways
		Under the MOU signed with the Philippine National Railways, China National Technical Import and Export Corporation and China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation will help rehabilitate the 400 km-long Mainline South railway from Calamba in Laguna province to Legaspi in Albay province.
		Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Speaker Jose de Venecia of the House of Representatives attended Friday's signing ceremony at the presidential palace.
		The completion of Mainline South will kickstart the economic development of the entire south Luzon region and the railway extension will create a gateway that will spur trade between Luzon and the central Philippine region of Visayas.
	english.people.com.cn /200211/15/print20021115_106887.html

	EPRA: Fiscal Policy & Tax Administration: Gov't advances P8.79B to state firms
		The national government had placed at P8.9 billion the ceiling for net lending for 2004, although the Finance Department had said it was confident that the government would outperform this goal as it instilled fiscal discipline among state firms.
		Economic managers have also called for the removal of provisions in the charters of state firms that required the national government to automatically guarantee their loans in case of default.
		The National Irrigation Authority's (NIA) Casecnan dam project followed with P2.5 billion in advances.
	epra-fp.blogspot.com /2005/01/govt-advances-p879b-to-state-firms.html

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		The monitored firms were: the National Power Corp., National Electrification Administration, Local Water Utilities Administration, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, Home Guarantee Corp., National Housing Authority, Light Rail Transit Authority; Philippine National Oil Co., National Irrigation Administration, National Development Co., Philippine Ports Authority, Philippine Economic Zone Authority, Philippine National Railways and the National Food Authority.
		The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines criticized the move of the National Telecommunications Commission to ban the airing of the alleged wiretapped conversations of President Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano.
		The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday said it is willing to help in the examination of the alleged wiretapped recordings of a conversation between President Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryID=6422

	Selected Railway Projects
		Philippines: Review of Manila-Calabarzon Expressway, Sorsogon Railway Extension, and Port of Manila Railroad Projects; Restructuring and Privatization technical advisory services for the Philippine National Railway.
		Railway restructuring assessments through rationalization, commercialization, concessioning, and privatization have been conducted for Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Philippines, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
		Railway Restructuring Projects: Railway restructuring assessments through rationalization, commercialization, concessioning, and privatization have been conducted for Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Philippines, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
	www.teraus.com /railways/rail_prj.htm

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
		In construing an act of the National Legislature one is to assume that it has no power to pass such act unless the authority is conferred by the Constitution, or may be fairly derived from some grant of powers enumerated therein.
		On this important subject the National Legislature was not in harmony with the executive, and after the assassination of President Lincoln, that body soon disagreed with his successor, Andrew Johnson.
		To obtain the nomination in a Republican National Convention a majority of the delegates is sufficient, whereas in that held by the Democratic party a two-thirds vote is necessary.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm

	COA audit of PNR exposes can of worms - INQ7.net
		It noted that seven non-moving accounts with the Philippine National Bank's Tutuban branch were closed in February 2001 and transferred to another account in the same bank branch.
		He said union complaints that the PNR had not remitted contributions to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) were true.
		"Despite the fact that the PNR is suffering a huge financial losses, Sarasola frequently visits five-star hotels and expensive restaurants using the funds of the PNR to cover the expenses he would incur in those places," the union alleged in its petition filed with the Ombudsman.
	news.inq7.net /nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=18472

	PNR fails to get funding for $1-B Bicol line rehab
		PHILIPPINE National Railways said it has failed to secure a financing commitment from China for the $1-billion rehabilitation of its Bicol line.
		PNR resumed on May 2 the operations of its Bicol line, which were suspended in November when one of its trains fell into a ravine in Quezon province.
		The PNR said it had been losing between P7 million and P8 million a month since November when its most profitable line was closed for an investigation and repairs.
	money.inq7.net /topstories/view_topstories.php?yyyy=2005&mon=05&dd=16&file=5

	Gov't OKs payment of P220-M PNR debts
		THE NATIONAL government, while pushing state-owned firms to become financially independent, has authorized the treasury bureau to release P220 million to losing firm Philippine National Railways (PNR) to service its maturing obligations.
		The national government, as stated by the charters of a number of state-owned firms, is mandated to provide sovereign guarantee to state-owned firms and give cash advances whenever these firms become unable to shoulder their debts.
		"They [PNR] should restructure their operations and reformulate their rates so that they will be able to service their loans with their own income stream.
	money.inq7.net /topstories/printable_topstories.php?yyyy=2005&mon=06&dd=06&file=6

	EPRA: Fiscal Policy & Tax Administration: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
		THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) estimates the rise in consumer prices at 8.5 percent year-on-year in May, the same pace as in the last three months, and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP, the Philippine central bank) puts the May inflation rate at between 8.1 and 8.6 percent.
		THE PHILIPPINE economy as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.6 percent in the January-March quarter from the same period last year, with the services sector again leading the growth, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said Monday.
		Philippine economic growth slowed to 4.6 percent in the first three months of the year amid weak farm output, weak exports and high oil prices, the government reported yesterday.
	epra-fp.blogspot.com /2005_05_31_epra-fp_archive.html

	G.R. No. L-28223
		The history of the collective bargaining in the Manila Railroad Company, now the Philippine National Railways shows that originally, there was only one bargaining unit in the company, represented by the Kapisanan Ng Manggagawa sa MRR.
		IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, the order appealed from is affirmed, with costs against appellant Mechanical Department Labor Union sa Philippine National Railways.
		Whether or not the agreement negotiated by the appellant union with the employer, during the pendency of the original petition in the Court of Industrial Relations, should be considered valid and binding on the workers of the Caloocan shops is a question that should be first passed upon by the Industrial Court.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1968/aug1968/gr_l-28223_1968.html

	Government Links - .:mygerona:. official portal of LGU Gerona, Tarlac
		Philippine Association for the Study of Overweight and Obesity
		Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD)
		Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD)
	www.gerona.gov.ph /mambo/content/view/58/76

	BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Philippines rail crash kills 10
		The eight-coach Philippine National Railways train was travelling overnight from Naga City to Manila.
		Police said it was too early to pinpoint the cause of the crash, but noted that some people in the area had been arrested for stealing and selling on railway tracks, Reuters quoted them as saying.
		Some of the estimated 400 passengers were pulled from the wreckage as rescuers searched for others trapped.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4005269.stm

	A Journey Through Life: November 2004 Archives
		The Philippine National Railways (PNR) train had 312 listed passengers, but its total occupants could reach 400 since commuters are picked up along the way.
		To all my online friends who were expecting me to make it to the Philippine Blog Awards Finals, I'm very sorry to tell you that I didn't make it.
		Good news to all Filipinos who are Philippine residents.
	www.ladylaila.net /blog/archives/2004_11.html

	The Manila Times Internet Edition REGIONS > Squatter transfer to push through
		MALOLOS CITY: Bulacan congressmen have no authority to stop the relocation of squatters along the abandoned Philippine National Railways (PNR) track although they are seeking to investigate the alleged overpricing of resettlement lots in Meycauayan and Balagtas by the National Housing Authority (NHA).
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/jun/13/yehey/prov/20050613pro9.html

	Mango Avenue - your Philippine travel and tourism help desk
		In addition, the PRN (Philippine National Railways), which run by the state, is also an option for those travelling out of Manila.
		PAL, the Philippines Airlines, is the national air carrier and serves Manila with links to 12 cities in 7 countries.
		About 14 percent of the 158,810 km (98,110 mi) of roads in the Philippines are paved, this is in spite of the difficult mountainous terrain.
	www.mangoavenue.com /tourism_transportation.html

	Clean Air Initiative: Asia - Neri says gov't got better terms for rail project (BusinessWorld)
		The North Rail project is aimed at revitalizing the long-abandoned Main Line North of the Philippine National Railways (PNR).
		MANILA, PHILIPPINES: The proposed $503-million North Rail project will not be a fiscal burden to the government, Socioeconomic Planning secretary Romulo L. Neri yesterday said.
		It involves the construction and conversion of the existing PNR track into a double track, land acquisition for areas where the existing PNR track is too narrow, procurement of 30 four-car diesel train sets, and the provision of a train control and signaling system.
	www.cleanairnet.org /asia/1412/article-58897.html

	NewsFromRussia.Com Five people were killed and 48 others injured at train accident in Philippines
		Police and english.pravda.ru/diplomatic/2002/07/04/31755.html ' target=_blank>Philippine National Railways officials said it was too early to pinpoint the cause but track and fittings in the area had been stolen in the past and sold as scrap metal.
		Rescuers in the Philippines smashed train windows with axes and hammers Friday to reach 100 passengers trapped when a carriage derailed and dragged other cars into a ravine, killing at least four people More details...
		According to Hinhuanet, At least five people were killed and 48 others injured when a passenger train bound for Manila derailed and fell into a ravine in the northern Philippine province of Quezon early Friday, a local television reported.
	all.newsfromrussia.com /accidents/2004/11/12/57094.html

	Untitled Document
		RESOLUTION URGING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS (PNR) TO DISPOSE, THROUGH NEGOTIATED SALE, ALL ITS REAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS WITHIN MANDALUYONG, METRO MANILA, TO QUALIFIED TENANTS
		RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MUNICIPAL MAYOR TO EXECUTE A GUARANTEE IN FAVOR OF THE NATIONAL HOME MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION AS THE FINANCING ARM OF THE FABELLA HOUSING PROJECT.
		A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MUNICIPAL MAYOR TO ALLOW THE MANDALUYONG CHAPTER OF THE PHILIPPINE DENTAL ASSOCIATION TO OCCUPY AND USE THE FRONT PORTION OF THE LION’S CLUB BUILDING IN MANDALUYONG, METRO MANILA.
	www.sanggunian.org /resolutions_as_of_sept2004-2.htm

	G.R. No. L-30942
		This Petition for review of an order of respondent Court, sustaining the right of members of private respondent, the Manila Railroad Medical, Dental, Nurses' Association to overtime compensation, reflects the rather adamant stand of petitioner, the Philippine National Railways, to resist the payment thereof.
		National Labor Union, L-24963, Nov. 29, 1968, 26 SCRA 282; National Waterworks and Sewerage Authority v.
		Court of Industrial Relations, L-32178, Dec. 28, 1970, 36 SCRA 600; Philippine Engineering Corporation v.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1974/may1974/gr_l_30942_1974.html

	STRIKE AT PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS
		Sarasola II appealed to state workers at the Philippine National Railways to end their strike which had been declared illegal by the Civil Service Commission.
		Providing the train drivers with security would not be enough due to the long distances of PNR routes, PNR officials added The PNR chief described the mass action of the workers as ill-timed in view of the financial losses of the state-owned railway firm during the last few years.
		He said the PNR could not field thirteen trainees-drivers and other non-striking personnel since the latter feared for their safety because of reported threats from the striking workers.
	www.newsflash.org /2003/05/hl/hl018068.htm

	Businessman killed in freak train accident - Apr. 17, 2004
		CARLOS G. Abrera, husband of advertising executive Emily Abrera, was killed this morning when he was hit by a Philippine National Railways train in Taguig, Metro Manila.
		Abrera, 58, was buying houseplants at Naty's Garden near the railroad tracks around 11:45 a.m.
		Businessman killed in freak train accident - Apr. 17, 2004
	www.inq7.net /brk/2004/apr/17/brkoth_3-1.htm

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