No Christmas furlough for Arroyo, et all (abs cnb news 2:28pm)
Former president GMA and  3 other co-accused in a plunder case will remain in detention during the holidays after the Sandiganbayan junked their request for a Christmas furlough.

Dzmm reporter:
> inakusahan ng united nationalist alliance si dilg sec mar roxas ng pang aagaw ng kapangyarihan kaugnay ng suspensyon kay cebu gov gwen garcia.
> ayon kay una sec gen toby tiangco na dahil sa suspension order hahalili rito ang vice gov na si agnes magpale ng liberal party.
> binigyang diin ni tiangco na malinaw itong pang aagaw sa kapangyarihan ni garcia.

ISSUE: INTERVIEW WITH REP. TOBY TANGCO (12:50-12:53 pm) DATELINE PHILIPPINES ANC) TJ Manotoc/Gigi Grande - This is definitely a power grab; it's so obvious. You don't have to read between the lines; the lines are so clear. LP would want to benefit from Gov. Garcia's suspension.

anc: just in: sandigan denies xmas furlough for cgma.

Holduper: Pili ka, wallet mo o pasabugin utak mo?

P-noy: Ikaw na bahala..basta pareho yang walang laman!

INQUIRER: Malaysia gaming firm threatens to sue PCSO - Philippine Gaming Management Corp. (PGMC), the local gaming unit of Malaysian conglomerate Berjaya, has accused the state-run PCSO of working relentlessly to bring down the Malaysian-led company.  PGMC legal counsel Jose Bernas accused the PCSO management of favoring a rival local lottery equipment provider at PGMC's expense.

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GMA NEWS: The booming PHL's missing link - foreign investors Guillermo Luz poked holes in the Philippines' fairytale economic revival.
- While foreign funds have poured into Philippine assets this year, driving the main stock index up around 30 percent to a succession of record highs and lifting the peso, foreign direct investment (FDI) remains embarrassingly low.

PEOPLES JOURNAL: LINGAYEN-DAGUPAN Archbishop Socrates Villegas yesterday said the controversial Reproductive Health bill would be a moral time bomb wrapped as a Christmas gift if President Benigno Aquino signs it into law. Villegas said the proponents of the RH bill may have won through the tyranny of numbers but it does not mean that they are right. "It is only a matter of  time and then we will see more violations of "Thou shall not kill" and "Thou shall not commit adultery" among our families, our youth and children," the prelate warned.

ABS-CBN NEWS: PHILIPPINES IN GLOBAL TOP 10 'DIRTY MONEY' LIST - Total illicit outflows increased by 11 percent from the prior year, Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based group that campaigns for financial accountability, said in its latest report released on Monday. "Astronomical sums of dirty money continue to flow out of the developing world and into offshore tax havens and developed country banks," said Raymond Baker, director of Global Financial Integrity. All the countries in the top 10, which this year saw India, Nigeria, the PHILIPPINES and Nigeria joins the ranks, face significant problems with CORRUPTION, and in most there are vast gaps between rich and poor citizens as well as internal security problems.