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Tuesday, November 09, 2004 (Philippines)

Breaking News

Search for missing Japanese diver widens (3:00 p.m.)

Tarongoy kidnappers demand US$12M ransom: Labor exec (1:42 p.m.)

Japanese diver missing off Mactan island (11:51 a.m.)

Educated women in RP prefer natural family planning methods: study (11:08 a.m.)

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Top RP envoy appeals for Tarongoy's release

An emotional Ivy Tarongoy, the wife of Robert Tarongoy, a Filipino accountant kidnapped in Iraq, issues another appeal for the safe release of her husband in an interview with The Associated Press in Manila Monday. (AP photo)

MANILA -- A top Philippine diplomat appealed to Iraqi militants for the release of a Filipino kidnapped earlier this month in Baghdad, as President Arroyo urged all sectors to refrain from exploiting the abduction for partisan interests.

Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, in an interview Sunday with Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera at its studios in Doha, Qatar, urged the kidnappers to allow accountant Robert Tarongoy, 31, to "return to his family."
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CEBU CITY -- Acting Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama wants a new management and a change in the personnel of the Cebu Center for Ultimate Rehabilitation of Drug Dependents (Curedd) after finding out that its patients are indeed maltreated and abused physically.

Tarongoy charged $900 in placement: Owwa

DAVAO CITY -- An Overseas Workers and Welfare Administration (Owwa) 11 official said Monday that abducted overseas worker Robert Tarongoy was asked to pay a placement fee to be able to work in Iraq.

Planned massive transport strike fizzles

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The massive strike planned Monday by transport groups to paralyze major thoroughfares in Central Luzon was only partially successful in Pampanga as jeepney, bus and tricycle drivers continue to ferry commuters.

	Business
CEBU: RP, Singapore firms sign business deals
DAVAO: Price of edible oil may reach P47 a kilo
PANGASINAN: Bitstop to host IT professionals

	Opinion
Cabaero: Sanitation jobs
Obenieta: Reverie over a river
Antalan: The numbers game
Cervantes: The ascendancy of morals in the US elections
Ferrer: Bush, Arroyo have things in common