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Friday, April 04, 2008

 

Rice hoarders face life sentence–DOJ

Warehouse owners and traders in the Philippines found to be hoarding rice will be charged with “economic sabotage, which carries a life sentence, or plunder,” Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said Thursday.

Plunder was punishable by death until President Gloria Arroyo outlawed capital punishment a few years ago.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

The influential head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) blamed the looming rice shortage on the government’s apparent mismanagement of a multimillion-peso fertilizer fund.

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Government may decide to cut rice tariff up to 12 percent, but commercial importers fear this will not give them a bigger margin and may choose not to import at all, officials said Thursday.

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THE World Bank estimated that the government loses about P30 billion a year, or 20 percent to 30 percent of the total amount of every contract that Manila signs, as a result of corruption or procurement inefficiency.

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The President of Palau found himself stuck in Manila after missing his flight home for refusing to be patted down by airport wor­­kers who did­n’t know who he was, officials and reports said Thursday.

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It was a good run for the Filipino-American who said she wanted to be the first Asian American Idol in the reality show’s season 7.

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Impersonators beware.
It is perhaps no laughing matter that the House Committee on National Cultural Communities headed by Benguet Rep. Samuel Dangwa had approved for floor debate House Bill 948 authored by Rep. Faysah Dumarpa...

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