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By Rio N. Araja and Maricel V. Cruz Transport group Manibela will pick up where the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston) will leave off, declaring its own three-day nationwide strike starting today until Nov. 24 to oppose the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). Piston’s members are not joining Manibela’s […]
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Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. on Tuesday threatened to cancel import permits that are not used within a month to buy an additional one million tons of rice to boost local stocks as price increases in the food staple have been noted in public markets. In a TV Patrol report, Bantay Bigas said the […]
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Speaker Martin Romualdez administers the oath of membership to Lakas-CMD party to Reps. Rosemarie Conejos Panotes, Dale B. Corvera, Lordan G. Suan, and Mary Mitzi Cajayon-Uy in Quezon City on Tuesday. Witnessing are Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe ...

The municipality of Glan in Sarangani was placed under a state of calamity following last week’s magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Mindanao. Glan accounted for over half of the earthquake’s death toll, with five out of the nine fatalities recorded. The declaration will allow the release of calamity funds allocated to the local government and control […]
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