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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 (Philippines)
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| A Filipino driver pays a gas attendant as he fills up his jeep at a station in Manila on Tuesday. The Philippine government will cut the import tariff on oil products to cushion the impact of soaring world oil prices on the domestic economy, President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo said. (AP photo) |
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MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered a one percentage point reduction in the tariff on oil imports as part of the mitigating measures on the rising world oil prices.
This would lower the oil import tariff from three to two percent.
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Bilibid official admits signing Jalosjos release papers
| MANILA -- A ranking official of the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) said Tuesday he signed the release papers of convicted rapist and former Zamboanga del Norte congressman Romeo Jalosjos, despite the absence of final go-signal from the Department of Justice (DOJ). |
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Fluvial parade tragedy victim's body recovered
| MASANTOL -- The body of the other fatality during the tragic fluvial parade accident last Sunday afternoon in Barangay Alauli here was recovered Tuesday. |
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Court bars Ouano from council
| CEBU CITY -- Barangay Captain Joy Ouano cannot sit today as an ex-officio member of the Mandaue City Council, after Executive Judge Marlyn Lagura-Yap restrained her from taking office as president of the Association of Barangay Councils (ABC). |
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