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Thursday, August 03, 2006 (Philippines)
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  Breaking News
Market shares rise 2.1% on foreign buying (2:00 p.m.)
IMF says RP to grow 5% this year despite oil price hikes (11:20 a.m.)
Arroyo urges Senate to pass bill on use Marcos funds (10:25 a.m.)

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After the fire, victims scour site for what can still be used from the ruins. Father and child (right) see little hope. Displaced residents of Lawis and Tangke II in Mambaling, Cebu City will be given help by the Cebu City Government. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Defensor)
MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday directed the mandatory pullout of all Filipinos in Lebanon to avoid incurring any casualties following fears that attacks might escalate in the coming weeks.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

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Top Stories
Drug addicts 'set off fire' in Cebu City barangay
CEBU CITY -- A lighted candle used in a shabu session or gas lamps quarrelling drug users threw at each other may have caused the fire in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City that left about 500 families homeless.
Gunmen abduct university president's daughter
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Unidentified gunmen snatched the daughter of a university president in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, where the Abu Sayyaf group is known to operate, officials said.
1 dies, 100 flee from floods in Misamis Oriental
BALINGASAG, Misamis Oriental -- One person was killed, another went missing, and almost a hundred families fled their houses as a waterspout and heavy rains hit 11 barangays in Balingasag and Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental Wednesday.


 
Business

CEBU: Pinoy trader eyes Cebuano market for soap varieties

DAVAO: Traders bullish on biz deals in Sarangani

CAGAYAN DE ORO: More visitors flock to Oro

ZAMBOANGA: Smart puts up free calls facility to Lebanon in Zambo

DUMAGUETE: Valencia eyed electronics capital of RP

 
Opinion

Wenceslao: Osmeña past his peak?

Seares: 'Dili sulti ang pabuhaton'

Ledesma: Born to yak and not to act

Ravanera: CDO only 38% corrupt, should we rejoice?

Perez: Tourism for central Philippines

 
Sports

DAVAO: Weight will be an issue, but Pacman is protected

CAGAYAN DE ORO: Salgados, Chavez stamp class anew

MANILA: Marikina's Riverboat hosts darts tilt

 
Lifestyle

CAGAYAN DE ORO: Ginoong Kadayawan 2006

CEBU: Magsaysay: Big ten!

DAVAO: New movies at Gaisano Mall

DUMAGUETE: 1st Biofuels Lecture and Demonstration

 
Features

DAVAO: Young and depressed

CAGAYAN DE ORO: Miss CDO 2006 pageant embraces 'Nite Cafe' theme

MANILA: New jail for minors in Taguig finished







:: Country News ::

Bacolod
2 religious icons beheaded, 4 others stolen
College entrance exam revival favored

Baguio
Special tribunal sentences 3 to life
Koreans go to other Asian countries for language training

Cebu
Website features nude women
Asssins in Cebu City ‘trained and paid’; traffic enforcer shot

Cagayan de Oro
'Chop-chop' victims discovered in Lanao
Now, Garci nephew wants to run too

Davao
Mayor issues guns to village cops
Sale of high-powered arms regulated

Dumaguete
Rob gang leader, 2 cops slain in grenade blast
Teacher held up, P181,000 taken

General Santos
2 top crime gangs busted
Mayor hails Arroyo's nation address

Iloilo
City not ready for night market: Exec
Balikbayans lose P.5M, jewelry to Budol-Budol Gang

Manila
Daughter of slain actress wants murder raps v. aide junked
Estrada sues ex-beauty queen, ma, paper for libel

Pampanga
No politics in adopting Legarda: Lapid
Cop charged for firing gun in Arayat brawl

Pangasinan
Fiscal escapes slay try
2 big-time 'drug dealers' nabbed

Zamboanga
3 Sayyafs killed, 8 wounded in fierce fighting in Sulu
Surrender or die: General to JIs, Sayyafs



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