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Thursday, November 11, 2004 (Philippines)

Drug abuse eyed in inmate’s death
Another Bagong Buhay Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) inmate is believed to have died of a shabu overdose last Oct. 10, only two weeks before one inmate died in similar circumstances.

News of his death, however, reached Cebu City Hall only yesterday, causing officials to suspect something anomalous surrounded his demise.

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A few meters away from the Parian Police Station in Cebu City, a parked PUJ yields the body of Ricardo Ortouste Jr. Driver Ortouste was shot in the head. His assailant was still not identified. (Sun.Star photo/Amper Campaña)

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Shabu inquiry
REP. Roque Ablan and some members of the House committee on dangerous drugs agreed in principle to hold a congressional inquiry in Cebu on the shabu lab operations in Mandaue City.
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Double pay for workers Nov. 15
Workers who put in a full day’s work on Nov. 15, which marks the end of Ramadan, are entitled to 100 percent additional pay instead of receiving only 30 percent extra.
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Nerissa raises mansion issue in Congress

SINCE the issue concerning her house in Barangay Casili, Mandaue City and its omission from her statement of assets and liabilities (SAL) saw print in a national daily, Rep. Nerissa Soon-Ruiz decided to deliver a privilege speech in Congress last Tuesday night to clear the matter.

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Database for Pinoys in IT launched
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Furniture exporters set to give Cebu X preview
 
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Wenceslao: Lake Danao and other tales
Mongaya: Politics in the coal-fired power plants issue
 
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Ex-Tigers help beat Coke
Cebuana dominates
Bautista gets scribes’ nod
Gonzales bags GM norm; Senador becomes an IM
 
Lifestyle
Magsaysay: Happily ever after
Serna: Vote for Karla, our Ms. World bet
Prohhorov: Take time
PLDT, Cebu Province launch ‘One Province, One Rate’

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