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Issued At: 5:00 p.m., 01 December 2009

  Northeast Monsoon affecting Northern and Eastern Luzon.

Metro Manila

Partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers
22°C to 32°C
Moderate to Strong:
Northeast
Manila Bay:
Moderate to Rough

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Lotto Results 11/30/2009
Megalotto 6/45: 24 29 39 30 42 32
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General Santos Local News

HK television to feature Sarangani Bay reef domes

A HONG Kong-based television crew just wound up an underwater shoot of the artificial reef domes that were dropped over five years into the shallow waters of Sarangani Bay led by two foreign nationals


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Aid keeps kids in school

THE nightmare brought by prolonged conflict in Basilan did not prevent them from going to school as more than 500 children and youth in Lamitan will continue to receive scholarship packages and books


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SM pushes mall project in General Santos

SM PRIME Holdings Inc. forged a lease agreement for an eight-hectare property in General Santos, as rival Gokongwei-owned Robinsons sets the start of commercial operations within the year.


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Alternative mining bill gaining ground in House

ANTI-large scale mining critics filed on Wednesday before the House of Representatives an alternative mining bill seeking to eliminate full foreign ownership of mining tenements


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25 complete US program for young Moro leaders

TWENTY-five participants from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) and other conflict-affected areas in Mindanao celebrated their completion last week


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Armm's biggest garments exporter faces shutdown

THE biggest textile exporter in southern Philippines, located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm), is heading towards a shutdown.


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Major mining firms show interest in Tampakan

GLOBAL major mining players BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have shown interest in owning stakes at the world-class Tampakan copper and gold project, an Australian mining executive said.


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General Santos power consumers get relief

COMMERCIAL and residential users in General Santos and neighboring areas could heave a sigh of relief after electricity rates were slashed last month, an electric distributor official said Wednesday.


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Tampakan mines can bring RP in world mineral market

THE Philippines can land in the global map of minerals importance through the Tampakan project, wherein capital expenditure could balloon to $6 billion for the initial production stage, an Australian


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Power outage hits Central Mindanao

POWER outage hit a large part of Central Mindanao on Friday, which lasted until the following day, as the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) started the commissioning of a special pro


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10,000 jobs offered in Jobapalooza '09

THOUSANDS of job seekers flocked to key urban centers in Central Mindanao Friday in a bid to find work locally and abroad, a top official said.


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Sun.Star Socsksargen wins national award

SUN.STAR Socsksargen Business Weekly won the Best in Business and Economic Reporting for the weekly category in the Civic Journalism Community Press Awards, conferred by the Philippine Press Institute


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Gov’t asked to stop coal plant project

LOCAL Catholic Church leaders asked the National Government Wednesday to stop the Alcantara Group-led $450 million coal-fired power plant in Sarangani province.


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Alternative mining bill to be filed in Congress

KORONADAL CITY -- Critics of large-scale mining projects owned by foreigners are on the end stages of crafting a bill to replace the Philippine Mining Act of 1995.


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Rally vs big investments in C. Mindanao set

A CATHOLIC church-led mass protest rally against two big-ticket investments in Central Mindanao is all set this week.


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