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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
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Lobby perils
medicines bill |
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Health official sees concerted effort to stop law’s
signing |
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By Ruben D. Manahan 4th Reporter
Foreign pharmaceutical giants in
the Philippines might throw a monkey wrench into the signing into
law of a congressional bill batting for lower-priced medicines.
Health Undersecretary Alexander
Padilla on Monday said these multinational firms might step up their
lobbying against the signing of the Cheaper Medicines Act by
President Gloria Arroyo.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Nani cries
‘deodorant’ in arraignment
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The Sandiganbayan on Monday
postponed the arraignment of former Justice Secretary Hernando
“Nani” Perez for a robbery-extortion case filed against him.
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Oil companies seen
to jack up fuel prices by P7 per liter
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Consumers should brace not only
for a deluge of price hikes at the pumps in the coming weeks but
higher ones at that as oil companies move to recover from the higher
cost of oil in the world market.
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RP rice tender for
670,000 tons a dud
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The Philippine government on
Monday declared an upcoming rice tender a failure because of the
lack of legitimate bidders.
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Palace fails to
name new officers to rights commission
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The third set of officers of the
Commission on Human Rights ended their seven-year term on Monday
without successors, leaving the commission in the hands of a
caretaker.
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Cardinal: Gays out
of ‘Santacruzans’
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CATHOLIC parishes that allow
cross-dressing homosexuals to play female saints in the Santacruzan
or Santa Cruz de Mayo procession do not honor but instead insult the
Blessed Virgin Mary...
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More Filipinos to
get poorer–ADB
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THE soaring domestic food prices
will increase the number of poor
Filipinos and will spoil the government’s fiscal situation as well
as the domestic economy, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned.
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GEMS OF HISTORY
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The regionalistic Chinese
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Why where the Dys or Lees in the
Philippines mostly in the lumber industry, and the Chuas were mostly
cooks or butchers? What is the origin of the saying, “Ang’s sky
and Te’s earth?”
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