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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 (Philippines)
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| President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, right, looks as Energy Secretary Rafael Lotilla shows the engine of a small hybrid car at Malacanang in Manila on Tuesday. The car has a gasoline-powered engine with an electronic motor resulting in lesser gasoline consumption and emissions. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday directed Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas to monitor and ensure the implementation of the P39.765-billion Labor Day package that she promised to workers last Monday.
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Drum of powder explodes: 1 dead
| CEBU CITY -- A drum full of firecracker powder exploded in Barangay Babag, Lapu-Lapu City Tuesday afternoon, burning a female worker to death. Factory owner Hedeliza Batucan, 48, said the "rebentador" they were tying together suddenly sparked and a loud explosion followed. |
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Terrorists have fled Luzon: police
| MANILA -- A ranking intelligence official of the police said Tuesday that most of the members of the Abu Sayyaf group who plotted to bomb last Monday's Labor Day protest rallies have left Luzon. |
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Girl recalls first time priest ‘raped’ her
| CEBU CITY -- With the priest she accused of raping her only a few feet away, an 18-year-old woman narrated before an investigating panel the first incident that allegedly happened last July 22, 2005. |
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