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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 (Philippines)
| A taxicab driver tries helping the unit of a fellow driver, which was having a problem on its fuel system. While working on the running engine and reviving it up, he appears unaware that the lighted cigarette between his lips could ignite fire if there is leak in the fuel system. (Contributed photo) |
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AS FEARS of a rice crisis continue to bother the world economy, the province of Compostela Valley is thinking of regulating its land use for banana plantations to limit the rapid conversion of rice lands.
The province's total rice production comprises only 77 percent of its total rice demand. There are a total of 11,000 hectares in Compostela Valley that are planted with rice and 2,000 hectares are non-irrigated. The total number of hectares planted with banana totaled around 13,000 hectares.
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Health department has no info on kidney selling
THE Department of Health (DOH) in Southern Mindanao denied receiving any reports that kidneys are being sold in Davao City, or in any other part of the region contrary to claims of a number of residents from M'lang, North Cotabato that they have allegedly sold their organs to some buyers in Davao City.
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City police rues juvenile law anew
DAVAO City Police Office (DCPO) Director Jaime Morente blamed the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Law of Senator Francis Pangilinan once more as among the reasons in the rapid increase of children in conflict with the law (CICL), as yet another teenage girl was raped by a gang of minors in Matina Aplaya last March 17.
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Tourism association looks into travel cost to Davao
THE high cost of travel to Davao City from the other metropolitan cities of the country is one of the factors that Davao Tourism Association (Data) is looking into.
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