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Saturday, April 12, 2008 (Philippines)
THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Friday confiscated two shipments of alleged smuggled rice grains and sugar from Thailand worth P16.8 million which entered two major ports in Manila last month.
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Arroyo lauded for preventing food riots in RP
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is "appropriately concerned" and "very concerned" over the continued rising prices and low supply of food including rice in the world market, which has already sparked civil disturbance and food riots in 33 countries, an official of the United Nation's International Fund for Agriculture Development (Ifad) said.
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Villar: Supplemental budget may be needed for Fields program
THE executive department should consider sending a supplemental budget to Congress that would fund the agricultural Fields (fertilizer, irrigation and infrastructure, education and extension, loans and insurance, dryers and other post-harvest facilities, and seeds) program, which President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recommended during the Food Summit in Clark Field, Pampanga.
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Arroyo undergoes health check anew
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo underwent a quick routine check-up at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City Friday noon, squeezing the "long delayed" health check in between engagements out of Malacañang.
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