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AFTER THE DEVASTATING FLOODS OF SEPTEMBER and October last year, the nation now faces a severe drought. A recent Inquirer story said it all: ‘El Niño drying up farms. From North to South, farmers try to survive.’ As of the latest count, at least 11 provinces have been severely hit by the weather phenomenon that is being blamed for the blistering dry spell that has hit Asia and Australia and the intense blizzards in the United States.
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MANILA, PhilippinesLocal drug firm United Laboratories Inc.
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focus 02/11/2010 LIMA Latin America is shifting focus in counter-drug strategies, moving away from a US strategy of a war on drugs that is widely seen as having failed, experts here said. Researchers from Latin America, the United States and Europe agreed that the debate is now centered on a search for local solutions rather than the broader policing strategy long dictated from Washington. There is an awareness that continuing to do what we have been doing does not work, said Ricardo Soberon, a Peruvian expert
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MANILA, PhilippinesThe Philippines stands to receive $3 million from the United Nations to boost its humanitarian response to underfunded emergencies. The amount is part of the $100 million which the UN allocated early this week as assistance to 14 ongoing but underfunded emergencies, ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen, where people…
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SAN PEDRO, Laguna, PhilippinesMakati Mayor Jejomar Binay, United Opposition vice presidential candidate, said Saturday he believes Malacañang’s decision to shelve the Cavite rail project was political retaliation against local officials who had turned against the administration. ‘Clearly, it is an example of vindictive politics.
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LUCENA CITY The government plans to tap the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Reserve Corps for ready deployment in case of calamities and natural disasters, Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales has announced. ‘It’s very important that this organization of reservists become more and more prominent
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday filed a World Trade Organization challenge against Philippine excise taxes on alcohol that it said discriminate against U.S.-made brands. “We are going to the WTO today because we want to ensure that U.S. producers have access to their markets overseas,”…
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ZOOMING IN 01/15/2010 The principal function of a central bank has been said to be that of keeping an economy operating in an environment of steady expansion.
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THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to deploy a team that will provide official travel papers to almost one million undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), beginning with those based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Jordan.
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(AP) - MANILA, Philippines - Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics in the Philippines followed a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ through the streets of Manila as part of annual ritual in which devotees express gratitude and seek redemption from sins, miracle cures and a better life. The Black Nazarene’s mostly male devotees-barefoot and clad in maroon shirts-converged for an early morning Mass Jan
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focus 01/11/2010 BOGOTA Authorities detained more than 500 mainly African migrants last year in Colombia, a growing hub for people trafficking to the United States that is aided by links to powerful drug traffickers.
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SHE SAYS 01/11/2010 If it has taken this long to indict someone in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case, one wonders how long it will take to get any major developments in the Maguindanao massacre, which happened late last year. Last weeks screaming headlines about the filing of double murder charges against Sen
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BLURBAL THRUSTS 01/10/2010 The Supreme Court has been quite generous to the octogenarian billionaire businessman Alfonso Yuchengco Sr. Last November, the high court gave him an early Christmas gift he probably wont ever forget for the rest of his life. In a ruling totally unexpected by the Fourth Estate, the high tribunal found the owner and several employees of a shuttered broadsheet newspaper guilty of libel for putting out a series of defamatory articles some 15 years ago portraying the former ambassador to the United Nations, whom the respected Forbes magazine has consistently ranked among the richest men in the country, as a Marcos crony, Marcos-Romualdez crony and corporate…
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TABLETS OF STONE 01/10/2010 We do not intend to demean the gruesome double murder of Salvador Bubby Dacer and Alex Corbito and that justice should really take its course in the case at the soonest possible. And the Department of Justice has jumped on it again taking Sen. Panfilo Lacson in the leap and soon to be towed with him, presidential comebacker, President Joseph Estrada
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
THE Philippines was singled out for praise by the United States for exerting ’special efforts’ to respect religious freedom and tolerance, as well as promote interfaith dialogue in the world arena, according to a recent report by the US State Department. The 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom, released in Washington, DC, in late October, said the Philippine government generally respected religious freedom in practice and that there was no change in the status of this respect during the period of the study, from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009.