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PRESIDENT
Arroyo proudly shows a loaf of bread and a plastic bag of
pan de sal
at the launching ceremonies of the “Tinapay ng Bayan”
during the celebration of the cityhood of Malabon on
Monday. Above, a saleslady at a Baguio City bakery shows
small bread for the poor called pan de liit,
costing only P20 per plastic pack. The national government
has linked up with the flour millers’ group Pafmil to
distribute cheaper bread amid the rising price of flour.
MALACAŃANG
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Government eyes hike in rice imports |
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THE
government is now looking into the possibility of increasing
the 500,000 metric tons (MT) of rice it will import this
May, with the National Food Authority (NFA) saying it is now
reassessing the volume it will import.
“The
National Food Authority is now studying the possibility of
offering more than 500,000 MT. We are balancing the price
and the impact of imports on the market,” said Agriculture
Secretary Arthur Yap Monday. |
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Oil
soars to $117 a barrel after attack on tanker |
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BANGKOK—Oil
prices spiked to a record $117.40 a barrel after a Japanese
oil tanker was attacked in Middle Eastern waters, off the
east coast of Yemen.
The
150,000-ton tanker Takayama was attacked about 440
kilometers off the Yemen coast in the Gulf of Aden while it
was heading for Saudi Arabia, its Japanese operator, Nippon
Yusen K.K., said in a statement posted on its web site. |
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GMA
calls 1st Ledac meeting |
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PRESIDENT
Arroyo will convene Tuesday the Legislative-Executive
Development Advisory Council (Ledac) for its first meeting
this year. |
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DOE
maintains 1-percent tariff cut for May |
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FOLLOWING
the continuous increase in world oil prices, the Department
of Energy (DOE) has certified and maintained the current
level of 1-percent import duties on petroleum products next
month. |
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Cry for help.
A little girl
cries under the heat of the midday sun at a rally organized
by the Task Force Anti-Illegal Demolition (Task Force-AID)
Monday in front of the National Housing Authority (NHA)
office. As their homes are to be demolished to make way for
infrastructure projects, they challenged NHA General Manager
Federico Laxa to look for relocation sites close to sources
of livelihood. --LEON
MEDADO |
