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                    [Title] => OSG to contest P7.3 billion award to Manila Water
                    [Summary] =>  The Office of the Solicitor General has slammed Manila Water for citing an international court ruling that orders the government to pay over P7 billion that the company reportedly lost after the government slashed water tariffs.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-12-07 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong
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                    [Title] => Government intervention in agri sector sought
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Concerned groups have stressed the need for government intervention in the agriculture sector, including support for farmers through distribution of seeds and fertilizer and construction of irrigation systems.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1020961 [Title] => Industry group pushes for lower power cost [Summary] =>

A group of local industry supporters have asked the government to address the high power cost in the Philippines, noting that it is the highest in Asia.

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The country’s unemployment rate went up slightly in October from a year ago, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday.

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  Philippine unemployment rate increased to 7.1 percent while the underemployment rate went up to 19.1 percent in July, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported Thursday.

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In a paper written by Rene Ofreneo, executive director of Fair Trade Alliance, he said the Philippines does not figure prominently in the production radar of the global carmakers because of under utilization of car plants.
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"What the numbers clearly show is that employment in the formal sector is shrinking and employment in the informal sector of the labor market is growing," Rene Ofreneo director of the school of labor and industrial relations at the University of the Philippines told AFP.
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