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Going up again: LPG, fuel |
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Cooking gas hike could be P3 per kilo in June
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After cooking-gas prices went up P0.50 per kilo
Friday, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers announced yet
another increase in June—this time by at least P3 per kilo.
It gets worse.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Teves says oil-tariff cuts not
effective in lowering fuel prices
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Finance Secretary Margarito Teves admitted Friday that a government
decision to waive import tariffs on crude oil will do little to cut
record-high pump prices.
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Surging food, energy costs
likely trimmed growth
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Food and energy inflation likely capped Philippine economic growth
to between 5.2 percent and 6.2 percent in the three months to March,
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Augusto Santos said Friday.
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FEATURE
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House takes 22 days to send
cheaper medicines bill to Palace
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Driving from the House to Malacañang takes only
an hour (even with traffic), but it took congressmen 22 days to
transmit the enrolled copy of the certified bill on cheaper
medicines to the President for signature.
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Terrorism declining –new study
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OTTAWA, Canada: Terrorism has sharply declined around the world, if
attacks in Iraq are discounted, a Canadian study reported Thursday,
challenging bleak US security assessments and popular belief.
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Typhoon damage tops P1.5 billion
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Agricultural damage inflicted by typhoon Cosme
on six provinces in Northern Luzon has reached P1.54 billion, the
Department of Agriculture said Friday.
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Chinese jobs, circa 1957
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The lack of data is one major difficulty
encountered when researching on the Chinese in the Philippines,
especially on contemporary economic and social status.
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