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Smokey Mountain, Manila; Photo 32

ADB Smokey Mountain Livelihood Improvement Project

Tondo district, Manila

23 January 2009

 

On August 15, 2007, the Supreme Court (of the Philippines) declared valid the 1993 joint venture agreement between the National Housing Authority (NHA) and R-II Builders Incorporated (RBI) to build a low-cost housing project at the former Smokey Mountain dumpsite in Manila.

 

sc.judiciary.gov.ph/publications/benchmark/2007/08/080715...

 

RBI is owned by Reghis Romero II, a businessman who was among those abducted by Abu Sayyaf bandits at the Dos Palmas resort in Palawan in May 2001

 

www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=15&iy=2001&fi=2001/i...

 

www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=15&iy=2001&fi=2001/i...

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