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BY ANGELA LOPEZ DE LEON BRACE for hotter days. Weather forecaster Rommel Yutuc yesterday said temperatures this month would be hotter than usual, reaching about 37 degrees Celsius or higher
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BY GERARD NAVAL HEALTH Secretary Esperanza Cabral yesterday bought the suggestion of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines that warnings be placed on condom packages.
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BY VICTOR REYES DETAINED former Brig.
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Manila - Philippine Catholic bishops Wednesday called for a total ban on condom advertisements after the health department vowed to step up promotion of their use to fight the spread of AIDS. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines claimed…
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MANILA, PhilippinesThe peso inched up anew in Wednesday’s trade, but which traders said was an indication of a mere market consolidation as risk aversion resulting from the fiscal problems on the Eurozone eases further. The local currency opened the trading day at 46.05…
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COTABATO CITY A fire believed to have been caused by a candle during a power blackout caused the death, by suffocation, of a family of four here.
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MANILA, Philippines Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said on Wednesday she was not leaving her post yet, despite a Supreme Court ruling, which deemed all appointive officials running for elective posts resigned. In an interview at the sidelines of the bail hearing of Andal Ampatuan Jr
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BACOLOD CITY A former Negros Occidental mayor was shot by a lone assailant as he was leaving a church in Iloilo City Wednesday night and died in a hospital five hours later, authorities said. Superintendent Ricardo de la Paz, Western Visayas police operations chief, said former Pulupandan Mayor Luis Mondia Jr.
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BY DWIGHT SARGA The Philippines remains off track in meeting its Millennium Development Goals (MDG), especially eradication of extreme poverty, come 2015. “The Philippines is also off track in more than 40 percent of the 21 indicators, including poverty, hunger, infant mortality and maternal health,” said the Millennium Development Goals in an Era of Global Uncertainty: Asia-Pacific Regional Report 2009/10. The report was produced by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Programme.
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MANILA, PhilippinesThe peso began and ended Thursday’s trading stronger than the previous day, moving together with the appreciation of most currencies in the region. After ending Wednesday’s trade at 46.4 against the US…
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MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao will have to slug it out with Roy Chiongbian, a member of an influential Saranggani clan, in the fight to represent Saranggani in the House of Representatives on May 10. The Commission on Elections First Division dismissed, on Wednesday, the disqualification charge filed by the People’s Champ Movement, Pacquiao’s political party, due to lack of merit.
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MANILA, PhilippinesAcknowledging its crucial role in her electoral victories, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday tried anew to woo the support of the powerful Iglesia ni Cristo as she gears up for her unprecedented congressional run. Ms Arroyo spoke about the Urban Luzon Beltway (ULB) at the INC-run New Era University in Quezon City, but in the end, she solicited the same support from the powerful sect. She thanked the INC for listing her as its No
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LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines - A top Army official denied charges that the military subjected 43 health workers to ‘psychological torture’ and called reports in media as ‘lies and misrepresentation’ of the truth. ‘How do they define psychological torture? Anyone who has been arrested and detained would surely experience stress.
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ILOILO CITY, Philippines President Gloria MacApagal-Arroyo on Wednesday hailed the country’s significant advance in the Information and Communication Technology-Business Process Outsourcing (ICT-BPO) industry, saying the country was already challenging the global industry supremacy of India.
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MANILA, Philippines–The head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) Thursday said the agency was experiencing a shortage of registration forms and stickers because of the huge number of newly purchased vehicles. ‘The LTO had a large [stock] of stickers just in case we ran out. Unfortunately,…