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Oil prices near record $143
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‘Congress’ to tackle role of speculators
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World oil prices rose to within touching distance of a record-high
point of $143 a barrel on Monday, as French truckers protested
against high fuel costs and energy leaders met to discuss soaring
crude.
New York crude oil had hit an all-time record of
$142.99 a barrel on Friday as the US currency remained weak. The
ailing dollar has fueled demand for oil, which is priced in dollars,
from traders holding stronger currencies.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Now back home, GMA pushes
for disaster readiness
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Fresh from her 10-day visit to the United States, President Gloria
Arroyo will visit worst-hit Aklan province today to tour damaged
areas and assess devastation wrought by Typhoon Frank, assuring that
her government would “get to the bottom of this terrible
tragedy.”
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Anwar to leave embassy refuge
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim prepared
Monday to leave the Turkish Embassy where he fled after being
accused of sodomy, and filed a lawsuit against his accuser.
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‘Pirates’ knock out PacMan
with brisk sales of DVDs
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Manny Pacquiao may never know who had hit him just hours after he
knocked out Mexican David Diaz in their title fight on Sunday in
Nevada.
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Refrigerated hand tools?
Only in the Philippines!
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This one’s definitely for Ripley’s Believe
It or Not.
Hand tools imported from South Korea arrived at
the Port of Manila on board reefer vans. Any ordinary person would
have been suspicious of why hand tools had to be refrigerated, but
people at the Bureau of Customs are no ordinary persons.
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Sulpicio blames Del Monte
on toxic cargo on ‘Princess’
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Embattled shipping firm Sulpicio Lines Inc. blamed Del Monte
Philippines for allegedly failing to declare its toxic cargo now
apparently threatening the environment and the people in central
Philippines and the divers who are retrieving corpses from the
sunken Princess of the Stars. Sulpicio Lines owns the ferry.
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SPECIAL REPORT
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Palace allies linked to Pagcor project
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First of two parts
A COMPANY that has neither track record in the
gaming business nor proven financial capability to back up a
multibillion-peso enterprise is poised to become the newest investor
in the ambitious “Tourism City” project of the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor).
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