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        "msgid": "rp-appoints-new-farm-minister-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-07-04 00:00:00",
        "title": "RP appoints new farm minister",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "RP appoints new farm minister PHILIPPINES: The Philippine government said on Sunday it had appointed Domingo Panganiban as its new agriculture secretary, three days after the previous farm minister resigned over tax evasion charges and amid speculation he would be sacked. Government spokesman Ignacio Bunye said Panganiban, who has worked as an international agriculture consultant since leaving his post as Philippine agriculture undersecretary in 2001, would take up his new position on July 15.",
        "content": "<p>RP appoints new farm minister<\/p>\n<p>PHILIPPINES: The Philippine government said on Sunday it had<br>\nappointed Domingo Panganiban as its new agriculture secretary,<br>\nthree days after the previous farm minister resigned over tax<br>\nevasion charges and amid speculation he would be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>Government spokesman Ignacio Bunye said Panganiban, who has<br>\nworked as an international agriculture consultant since leaving<br>\nhis post as Philippine agriculture undersecretary in 2001, would<br>\ntake up his new position on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>The agriculture sector makes up about two-fifths of the<br>\nPhilippines' gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p>The previous farm minister, Arthur Yap, said on Thursday he<br>\nwas resigning due to tax evasion charges against him and amid<br>\ntalk that he was close to the scandal-prone husband of President<br>\nGloria Macapagal Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the president had said Yap was among a group<br>\nof ministers that Arroyo was planning to sack in an attempt to<br>\nreduce mounting pressure over allegations of electoral fraud and<br>\ngraft against her and her family. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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