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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, January 30, 2006 |
| Negros Oriental |
'More news on TB needed'Valencia
now 1st class town Lee
Plaza asks court to return seized shoes Guv
studies offer to host Palaro 2007
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wounded as gunmen attack mosque |
'More news on TB needed'
There might be some truth to the saying, "No news is good news," but does it apply to diseases like tuberculosis?
A doctor has lamented the inattention of the Philippine media to tuberculosis, saying the media prefer the more sensational diseases such as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, mad cow disease and bird flu.
"The media is numb with news about TB these days," said
Dr. Jupert Benedicto, chair of the Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis,
a coalition of 65 groups to include medical societies, as well as government
and non-government organizations. 
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Valencia now 1st class town Valencia town has become the third municipality in Oriental Negros to be reclassified into a first class municipality. The two other first class municipalities in the province are Guihulngan and Sta. Catalina. Maria Presentacion Montessa, Executive Director of the Bureau
of Local Government Finance, who announced the municipality's new
status, said that from a third class municipality, Valencia has
been reclassified to first class because of its P81 million annual
income. |
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Lee
Plaza asks court to The lawyers of Dynamic Development Corporation, operators of Lee Super Plaza and HyperMart, the two biggest department stores in Dumaguete City, are asking the court to invalidate two search warrants that the National Bureau of Investigation used two years ago to confiscate 1,165 pairs of Avia shoes, which were alleged to be fake products. Lawyer Richard William Sison told the DAILY STAR that no case
has yet been filed against his clients since the NBI raided the
two department stores in July 2004, leading them to wonder what
that raid was all about. |
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