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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
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Enrile to oil firms: Roll back prices or else |
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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile said Tuesday that if the oil firms would
not lower their pump prices, Congress would pass a law that would
allow the government to get a portion of their huge profit.
Enrile issued the warning after oil firms
refused to roll back their prices even if the price of crude oil in
the world market had gone down to $83 a barrel.
Earlier, consumer activist Raul Concepcion said
that oil firms could afford to lower their prices by P8 a liter at
the pumps, at P1 a week over a period of eight weeks.
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Teehankee commutation, release get mixed reactions
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The granting of executive clemency to Claudio Teehankee Jr. has
drawn mixed reactions, even as the family of Teehankee appealed that
he be given a chance to atone for his “past failings.”
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Two MDG targets not attainable
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The government is unlikely to hurdle problems related to education
and maternal health as originally committed to the United Nations
(UN) in 2015, the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA)
said Tuesday.
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RP protests racial slur in BBC sitcom
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The Philippine government has already lodged a written protest with
the British government over the alleged offensive portrayal of a
Filipino maid in one of British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC)
comedy show.
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MMDA axes 16 personnel over theft
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The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) axed Tuesday at
least 16 of its employees over the theft of the P5.1-million worth
of vertical clearance structures owned by the Light Railway Transit
Authority.
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De Castro still shying from Lakas
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Partisan politics will have to wait a while. This was what Vice
President Noli de Castro said Tuesday in the light of calls from the
ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats party that he should reveal
where he really stands in so far as the 2010 presidential elections
is concerned.
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