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Games Monday (The Arena, San Juan)
10 a.m. — Perpetual vs MIT-Malayan (Jrs)
12 noon — Letran vs San Sebastian (Jrs)
2 p.m. — Perpetual vs Mapua (Srs)
4 p.m. — Letran vs San Sebastian (Srs)

Rizal University formalized its entry into the Final Four after shrugging off a slow start to demolish St. Benilde, 73-55, in the 86th NCAA basketball tournament at The Arena in San Juan.

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Aside from the P200-million pork barrel fund for each senator in the 2011 national budget, lawmakers who were appointed to chair the 34 oversight and ad hoc committees in the Senate will get millions of pesos in additional funds.

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MANILA/HONG KONG, Sept. 10 (Reuters) – The Philippine government said Friday it raised an equivalent of $1 billion from a maiden issue of a 2021 global peso bond, taking advantage of heavy foreign demand and record inflows into Asian debt markets.

The peso-denominated bonds, Asia's first global local currency debt issue, were priced at 99.607, with a coupon of 4.95 percent, to yield 5.0 percent, the government said in a statement. The deal puts Philippines in a small club of issuers who have sold bonds abroad in their own currencies.

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