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		<title>Typhoon &#8216;Frank&#8217; maintains strength; 90 km southeast of Metro</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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MANILA, Philippines&#8211;(UPDATE) Typhoon Frank (international code name: Fengshen) has maintained its strength and its eye was located 90 kilometers southeast of Metro Manila (13.9°N 121.5°E) in the latest bulletin issued by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the state weather bureau.
In its 5 a.m. update, Pagasa said Frank was forecast to move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=27&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rescue ship reaches stricken ferry; typhoon death toll at 80</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Worried relatives wept Sunday as they awaited news of more than 800 passengers and crew aboard a ferry that capsized as Typhoon &#8220;Frank&#8221; (Fengshen) swamped the Philippines, killing more than 80 people and submerging entire communities.
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		<title>On zero oil tariff cut: Relieve consumers, not oil firms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent think-tank IBON Foundation criticizes the Department of Energy and Malacañang for passing the zero oil tariff cut, saying that reduced tariffs in the last three months has resulted in even higher prices of oil products.
Since the oil tariff was reduced from 3% to 2% in February and 2% to 1% in May, gasoline and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=24&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers’ Wages Deteriorate As Tuition Fees Soar &#8211; EFD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Filipino families are still coping from escalating prices of basic commodities like rice, bread and meat products and the never-ending rise of oil prices, they are once again faced by enrollment woes this month: tuition fee hikes.
The Department of Education has already announced that the tuition fee increase in private elementary and high schools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=22&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extrajudicial killings during Arroyo term now 903 &#8211; Karapatan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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A total of 903 cases of extrajudicial killings have been reported since President Arroyo assumed office, the human rights group Karapatan said on Tuesday.
Of the total, Karapatan said three regions had the most number of extrajudicial killings&#8211;Southern Tagalog at 163, followed by Central Luzon at 137, and Bicol Region, 127. Majority of the victims were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=21&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental activist groups support Nueva Vizcaya officials standing against mining operation of Oceana Gold Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We commend and support the action of Nueva Vizcaya Gov. Luisa Lloren Cuaresma and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan haulting the mining operation of Oceana Gold Philippines in Didipio,&#8221; Clemente Bautista, National Coordinator of the environmental activist group Kalikasan-PNE said in a statement today.
The Governor together with other provincial officers and villagers led the barricade last Wednesday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=20&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Livelihod worse today, says most Filipinos &#8211; Ibon survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Filipinos feel that their livelihood worsened compared to the previous quarter, according to the latest results of the nationwide survey conducted by research group IBON Foundation.
The April 2008 nationwide survey shows that the number of Filipinos who said that their livelihood worsened grew significantly from 46.3% in January 2008 to 64.3% in April. Those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=19&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gov&#8217;t should buy 40% petron stake to help control prices hikes-IBON</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent research group IBON Foundation called on government to buy the 40% share in Petron being sold by Saudi Aramco as part of a plan for responsible state intervention in the oil sector.
Acquiring majority control of Petron would allow government to increase its leverage in the market. At the minimum, it can control 51% of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=18&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aspiring to &#8216;mining country&#8217; status will throw RP into deeper poverty &#8211; Kalikasan</title>
		<link>http://pinoytoday.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/aspiring-to-mining-country-status-will-throw-rp-into-deeper-poverty-kalikasan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An environmentalist group today chided Philippine Environment Secretary Lito Atienza for celebrating the continuing flow of foreign mining projects into the country during the Asia Mining Congress in Singapore last week, warning that most developing countries which have pursued the path of mining liberalization have only ended up with higher poverty rates and devastated ecologies.
Atienza [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=17&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obsession over fiscal balance behind gov&#8217;t proposal to increase NFA prices &#8211; Ibon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government’s obsession with balancing the budget to satisfy its creditors is behind the proposal to increase National Food Authority (NFA) rice prices, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.
Record rice imports are needed to make up for shortfalls in local production, which could mean as much as a P64.1-billion subsidy for NFA rice this year— [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinoytoday.wordpress.com&blog=3311237&post=16&subd=pinoytoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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