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RP rice prices
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Japan to sell up to 60,000 tons to Manila |
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The Philippines, one of the world’s largest rice
importers, said Friday prices are softening after Japan offered to
sell rice to Manila amid news of bumper world harvests for 2008.
Large tenders by the Philippines
to fill its expected 2008 production gap of up to 2.7 million tons
have helped drive up prices by 76 percent between December 2007 and
April 2008, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Prices seen to
rise faster than ever this year
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Prices of goods and services are
expected to grow at their fastest pace this year across the world as
a result of higher food prices and costlier oil, a United Nations
report said.
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Sc gets appeal to
reopen Kuratong case
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The families of 11 slain members
of the Kuratong Baleleng gang on Friday called on the Supreme Court
to immediately act on their petition to reopen a multiple-murder
case they filed against officers...
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Talks on again
between govt, Maoist rebels
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From Malacañang, there was
neither immediate reaction to nor confirmation of reported peace
talks held this week in Norway between its emissaries and those of
the outlawed National Democratic Front (NDF) to resolve...
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Malacañang
reappoints Sec. Teves
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Talks that Finance Secretary
Margarito Teves is on his way out of the Cabinet appear to have been
premature, as Malacañang submitted his reappointment papers to the
Commission on Appointments on Friday.
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President pushes
for non-wage benefits
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President Gloria Arroyo asked her
Cabinet secretaries to convene meetings with labor and employer
groups to discuss the possibility of giving more non-wage benefits
to workers.
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Myanmar
astrologers see more tragedies in ‘08
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YANGON: Across from Yangon’s
golden Shwedagon Pagoda, Khin Myint Myat sits under her newly
repaired roof and sketches a star chart that she says explains both
the cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China.
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GEMS OF HISTORY
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Li Tan: Mystery no
more
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Right after writing about
Sterling Seagrave’s Lords of the Rim version of the 1603 Chinese
massacre in the Philippines in the March 2007 issue of Tulay (the
weekly newspaper of Kaisa),...
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