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MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health has been ‘working’ on another round of drug price cuts to be enforced before end of the term of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in June, Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. But Cabral said they were ‘not making any promises.’ The …

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MANILA, Philippines – An executive order creating the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group is unconstitutional, a local court has ruled. In a nine-page decision, Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr. of the Manila regional trial court…

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GUN-FOR-HIRE SYNDICATES, which have been operating with impunity, can only be stopped if the government forms a composite task force. The task force could be composed of members of the Philippine National Police (PNP), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the various intelligence units of the military. There’s no other …

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NO HOLDS BARRED 03/09/2010 And of course I mean Hollywood, in the good old US of A, and if you’re wondering where I’m coming from, well, the 82nd Academy Awards is going on as I write. It’s such a welcome respite from the Manny Villar ads airing in all media, …

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ANALYSIS 03/09/2010 VIENNA — A far-right candidate for Austria’s presidential election has brought the country’s dark past to the surface once more, after denouncing a law banning Nazi groups and Holocaust denial. Barbara Rosenkranz, 51, a regional party leader for the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) who was nominated last week, …

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FRONTLINE 03/09/2010 The political in-thing today for candidates is to project themselves as the “opposition candidate.” The first question then is, opposition to whom and to what? Gloria Arroyo and her government, along with her policies? But are they? Hardly that, since these same candidates who claim to be opposition …

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TERESA CEROJANO Associated Press Writer= MANILA, Philippines (AP) — On Valentine’s Day, Philippine government health workers hit the streets of Manila to hand out roses and condoms to passers-by. The message was clear in a country with a relatively small but rapidly growing HIV-positive population: Avoid unprotected sex. It didn’t …

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So far, the PSEI’s 3,133 psychological mark has remained technically to be the market’s price index level to break. It was established on Jan. 15 this year.

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Local stocks opened the week on an upbeat mood due to sustained global investor optimism as reflected by the three-week rally on Wall Street.

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The local export industry should export more products to China and Africa, the two regions that are expected to recover the fastest from last year’s global economic meltdown, the Multimodal Transportation Group (MTG) said.

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