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For years Americans living in border-states have been slipping across to Canada to buy medicine. Reason: value for money. Constrained by profit ceilings and a weaker currency, Canadian pharmacies sell drugs at only a fraction of the cost in the U.S. Chairman Roberto Pagdanganan of the government-owned Philippine International Trading Corp. wishes that the archipelago had a land border with India and Pakistan. He has discovered that medicines made there by the same companies operating in the RP, with same efficacy, costs only from a third to a thirtieth of local price tags.

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Ito ang tiniyak nina Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Philsoc) Chairman Roberto Pagdanganan, Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Eric Buhain at Bacolod City represen-tative Monico Puentevella, ang House Committee on Youth and Sports, na mga panauhin kahapon sa lingguhang PSA Forum sa Manila Pavilion.
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Ito ang tiniyak nina Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Philsoc) Chairman Roberto Pagdanganan, Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Eric Buhain at Bacolod City represen-tative Monico Puentevella, ang House Committee on Youth and Sports, na mga panauhin kahapon sa lingguhang PSA Forum sa Manila Pavilion.
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