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Saturday, March 27, 2004 (Philippines)
| HANDS. Palm-pressing is the order of the day as rivals President Arroyo (top) and Fernando Poe Jr. (above) hit Cebu in their campaign sorties. (SUN.STAR FOTOS/TOP, RUEL ROSILLO; ABOVE, ALEX BADAYOS) |
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THREE employees of the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and two policemen were killed when about 80 communist rebels ambushed them in Sitio Cabantog, Lake Danao, Ormoc City past 7 a.m. yesterday.
The ambush site was just a kilometer from PNOC’s Rig 8 geothermal power plant, which was torched by five suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas an hour earlier.
The five fatalities were merely responding to the burning of the geothermal plant’s facility when the rebels opened fire at them.
The blaze destroyed some P200 million worth of equipment of the Leyte-based PNOC, which supplies power to the Visayas area.
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FPJ woos Cebuanos with lines from films
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Fernando Poe Jr., the king of Philippine action movies, opened his campaign in Cebu yesterday incidentally in the province’s gun-making capital, Danao City.
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GMA pledges cemetery for Muslims, houses
CHECKING her “notes” from time to time, President Arroyo yesterday afternoon “consulted” Cebu City residents and promised to help address their problems, among them the concern of Muslims for a separate cemetery.
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John-john Osmeña refuses to quit
THE pseudoephedrine controversy may be troubling his gubernatorial bid, but Cebu Vice Gov. John Gregory “John-John” Osmeña will continue his campaign for the Capitol top seat.
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