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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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 By LUZ RIMBAN
FARMERS are asking the Department of Agrarian to immediately distribute to 67 farmer-beneficiaries Hacienda Bacan in Isabela, Negros Occidental owned by the family of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The farmers said they are merely collecting on the promise Arroyo herself made eight years ago that she would distribute 1,000 hectares of Arroyo land to farmer-beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. |
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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By LUZ RIMBAN 
IN A few months, the rains will come and their first stop will be the Bicol Region. Every year, many of the 20 or so typhoons that hit the Philippines strike land first in Bicol, bringing deadly floods and landslides.
Among the many areas usually hard hit by typhoons is the small fishing village of Sitio Rinaga in Barangay Sta. Cruz in the town of Bato, Camarines Sur. Rinaga lies on the shores of Lake Bato, a catch basin for the waters from all over Camarines Sur as well as its neighbor to the south, Albay. |
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