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Rice shortage grips
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Several nations scramble
to cope with regional crisis
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HONG KONG: President Gloria
Arroyo convened a food summit with top
officials and farm experts on Friday, looking for ways to prevent
the emerging rice crisis from severely affecting the world’s
biggest importer of rice.
This came as the latest effort by
the Philippine government to ensure food supplies and control
soaring rice prices, which is also seen as a major task in other
Asian countries, where rice is consumed daily by every household.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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‘Iggy’ Arroyo
Uses Biofuels Law To Evade Carp
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While ordinary Filipinos face the
threat of food shortages caused by dwindling agricultural land,
sugar barons in Congress are turning vast properties into
plantations to produce and process biofuels.
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US actor Charlton
Heston dead at 84
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LOS ANGELES: Charlton Heston, the
chisel-jawed Hollywood icon best remembered for his Oscar-winning
performance in the 1959 epic Ben- Hur has died at his home, his
family said. He was 84.
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Kingmaker Estrada
plays coy on presidential bid in 2010
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Former President Joseph Estrada
on Sunday refused to rule out running
for re-election in 2010 but hinted that he might be content with the
role of kingmaker ahead of the vote.
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FEATURE
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‘Recto
University’ thriving despite govt crackdown
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As educational costs rise,
earning a diploma has become more difficult. Some have devised ways
to present school credentials without even spending years in class
and thousands in fees.
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Special
Report
: food security
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Rice sufficiency
not impossible, experts say
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With low investments in
agriculture, most especially rice farms, the palay yields per
hectare hovers from three to four tons in non-irrigated farms, with
the higher range produced in irrigated lands.
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