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                    [Title] => 770 workers displaced by Batangas sugar mill closure secure P10K cash aid
                    [Summary] => Rep. Brosas said help to the sugar workers should not end with the distribution. "We must sustain the campaign to save the livelihoods of sugarcane cutters in Batangas," she said.
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                    [Title] => Philippine sugar prices to stay above world market price — Fitch Solutions
                    [Summary] => Prices of sugar in the Philippines will remain above global levels, a Fitch unit said.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-12-13 16:32:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1805247
                    [AuthorName] => Ian Nicolas Cigaral
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                    [Title] => Lawmakers junk proposal to liberalize sugar industry
                    [Summary] => All lawmakers in the Senate are junking the economic managers’ plan to open up the sugar industry to importation as such a move runs contrary to President Duterte’s thrust towards food security.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-11-13 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon
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                    [Title] => Sugar stakeholders vow to block easing of imports
                    [Summary] => The sugar sector is optimistic lawmakers will not heed calls of the country’s economic team to liberalize sugar imports due to the significant impact of a recent move to open up the local rice industry.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-10-08 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Gilbert Bayoran
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                    [Title] => Sugar prices remain stable
                    [Summary] => The local sugar industry reiterated its opposition to a proposal calling for the  liberalization of  sugar imports, saying prices remained stable.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-06-14 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon
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                    [Title] => Sugar sector worries over  shortcuts to liberalization
                    [Summary] =>  Sugar industry stakeholders expressed concern over shortcuts to liberalizing the sector.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-03-09 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon
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                    [Title] => Bukidnon raises concerns over relaxing sugar imports
                    [Summary] => The province of Bukidnon expects an economic slowdown with the planned liberalization of the sugar industry.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-01-29 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1475310
                    [AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon
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                    [Title] => Liberalized sugar importation contradicts Duterte’s food security goal
                    [Summary] => The planned liberalization of the sugar industry is a direct contradiction of the government’s thrust toward food security, sugar producers claimed as they gear up for a major opposition against the move.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-01-28 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon
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                    [Title] => Duterte asked to stop sugar import liberalization
                    [Summary] => Sugar industry stakeholders and Negros Occidental officials appealed to President Duterte to intervene in the proposed sugar import liberalization, which they said would lead to the collapse of the industry.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-01-27 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804713
                    [AuthorName] => Gilbert Bayoran
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                    [ArticleID] => 1861948
                    [Title] => 9 sugar workers slain in Negros Occidental hacienda
                    [Summary] => At least nine sugar workers were killed on Saturday evening in an attack in a hacienda in Negros Occidental.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-10-21 13:03:00
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770 workers displaced by Batangas sugar mill closure secure P10K cash aid

May 30, 2023 - 3:04pm

Rep. Brosas said help to the sugar workers should not end with the distribution. "We must sustain the campaign to save the...

Headlines

Philippine sugar prices to stay above world market price — Fitch Solutions

By Ian Nicolas Cigaral | December 13, 2019 - 4:32pm

Prices of sugar in the Philippines will remain above global levels, a Fitch unit said.

Business

Lawmakers junk proposal to liberalize sugar industry

By Louise Maureen Simeon | November 13, 2019 - 12:00am

All lawmakers in the Senate are junking the economic managers’ plan to open up the sugar industry to importation as such a move runs contrary to President Duterte’s thrust towards food security.

Business

Sugar stakeholders vow to block easing of imports

By Gilbert Bayoran | October 8, 2019 - 12:00am

The sugar sector is optimistic lawmakers will not heed calls of the country’s economic team to liberalize sugar imports due to the significant impact of a recent move to open up the local rice industry.

Business

Sugar prices remain stable

By Louise Maureen Simeon | June 14, 2019 - 12:00am

The local sugar industry reiterated its opposition to a proposal calling for the liberalization of sugar imports, saying prices remained stable.

Business

Sugar sector worries over shortcuts to liberalization

By Louise Maureen Simeon | March 9, 2019 - 12:00am

Sugar industry stakeholders expressed concern over shortcuts to liberalizing the sector.

Business

Bukidnon raises concerns over relaxing sugar imports

By Louise Maureen Simeon | January 29, 2019 - 12:00am

The province of Bukidnon expects an economic slowdown with the planned liberalization of the sugar industry.

Business

Liberalized sugar importation contradicts Duterte’s food security goal

By Louise Maureen Simeon | January 28, 2019 - 12:00am

The planned liberalization of the sugar industry is a direct contradiction of the government’s thrust toward food security,...

Business

Duterte asked to stop sugar import liberalization

By Gilbert Bayoran | January 27, 2019 - 12:00am

Sugar industry stakeholders and Negros Occidental officials appealed to President Duterte to intervene in the proposed sugar...

Nation

9 sugar workers slain in Negros Occidental hacienda

October 21, 2018 - 1:03pm

At least nine sugar workers were killed on Saturday evening in an attack in a hacienda in Negros Occidental.

Nation