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Monday, March 31, 2008 |
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Govt lays down
options besides rice tariff cut |
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BY Chino S. Leyco Reporter
THE GOVERNMENT is still looking
for other options aside from cutting
the rice tariff amid skyrocketing commodity prices in the
global market, the Department of Finance said.
Finance Secretary Margarito Teves
said the country’s economic managers are considering many
options to combat the instability in rice prices, like relaxing the
tariff and state subsidy, adding the reduction on tariff will affect
the government’s revenues.
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Justice warns rice
traders on hoarding
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CHARGES of economic sabotage, an
unbailable offense, may be slapped against unscrupulous owners of
rice warehouses found hoarding the commodity to create an artificial
shortage and jack up prices.
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MMDA hopes High
Court can settle police power issues
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Metropolitan Manila Development
Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando said the country’s
legislature and even the Supreme Court could decide and solve the
long-standing battle between the agency...
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Jailed OFW in
Bangladesh back in RP
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A Filipino seaman, who was
incarcerated in Bangladesh for 11 years, has been released from
prison and returned home.
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Drive vs. colorum,
kotong intensifies
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Operatives of the Presidential
Anti-Colorum/Kotong Task Force arrested 37 kotong cops and traffic
enforcers, and rounded up 893 colorum vehicles in operations in
Metro Manila.
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Noli de Castro
proposes 5-point growth strategy
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VICE President Noli de Castro has
proposed a five-point strategy to
arrest the uncertainties surrounding the country’s economic and
social condition.
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