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MANILA -- The level of hunger among Filipinos has risen to an alarming rate, with nearly 17 percent of people saying they had nothing to eat at least once over a three-month period, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said Friday.
Of the households queried, 16.7 percent reported experiencing hunger in the last quarter of 2005, up from 15.5 percent in August, SWS said -- a record high since it began hunger surveys in mid-1998.
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