AUCKLAND, New Zealand (via PLDT) – The Philippines and the Sanitarium Health Food Company (SHFC), a leading New Zealand food manufacturer, have forged a partnership agreement intended to bolster the two-way trade of food items between the Philippines and New Zealand
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MANILA — The government is ready to implement its old but effective measures to avert the domino impact on the domestic fuel prices of oil price increases in the global market.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said in his weekly press briefing in Malacanang this afternoon that this is in response to the plan of multinational oil companies to impose a series of oil price hikes in the next few weeks.
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MANILA — Malacanang assured today government employees whose tenures will be affected by the implementation of Executive Order 366 or the Rationalization Plan that they will receive the full benefits due them.
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lauded today the important role Australia is playing in ensuring peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
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MANILA — Malacanang welcomed today the move of Rep. Satur Ocampo of the militant party-list Bayan Muna and the Alliance for the Advancement of Human Rights (KARAPATAN) to participate in the investigation of the extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations being conducted by the Melo Commission.
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