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                    [Title] => LOCAL NEWS: Filipino group assails JPEPA
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                    [Title] => DSWD clarifies discount for seniors
                    [Summary] => The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified yesterday that only residential facilities that care for senior citizens may avail themselves of the 50 percent discount in water, electricity and telephone bills.


"Households or families who have a family member who is a senior citizen cannot avail themselves of the 50 percent discount because the discount is only meant as an institutional support to residential facilities taking care of older persons," said Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral.
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The outbreak of the disease left 10 people dead and 117 others ill. The victims mostly belong to the Banwaon tribe in sitios Kamalangan, Tamiang, Guinsawan and Malitado, all in Barangay Binicalan in San Luis town.

Dr. Gerna Manatad, DOH regional epedimiologist for Caraga, said that the teams of experts sent to the areas last week have reported that contaminated drinking water was the primary cause of the cholera outbreak.
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The storm, packing gusts of 90 kilometers (56 miles) per hour, moved out into the South China Sea before dawn after cutting through the central islands, the government weather station reported.

Rough waves capsized a small ferry off the southern tip of the main island of Luzon and two people on the boat are still missing, the Coast Guard said.
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DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman said the procedure is vital for the school children so they could go back to their normal life.
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Arnel Manresa, head of DOTC’s road transport planning division, said the PETC Operators Association had committed to cut their fees by P50 during a public hearing in Lipa City, Batangas.

"The DOTC was able to convince them to reduce their fees for the benefit of the motorists. This will be implemented soon," Manresa said.
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As of last Monday, the evacuees were sheltered in Rizal High School and the public elementary schools in barangays Maybunga, Ilugin, Nagpayong, Bambang, Kalawaan and Santolan. The city government has suspended classes in some of these schools to give way to the evacuees.
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                    [Title] => DSWD clarifies discount for seniors
                    [Summary] => The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) clarified yesterday that only residential facilities that care for senior citizens may avail themselves of the 50 percent discount in water, electricity and telephone bills.


"Households or families who have a family member who is a senior citizen cannot avail themselves of the 50 percent discount because the discount is only meant as an institutional support to residential facilities taking care of older persons," said Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral.
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The outbreak of the disease left 10 people dead and 117 others ill. The victims mostly belong to the Banwaon tribe in sitios Kamalangan, Tamiang, Guinsawan and Malitado, all in Barangay Binicalan in San Luis town.

Dr. Gerna Manatad, DOH regional epedimiologist for Caraga, said that the teams of experts sent to the areas last week have reported that contaminated drinking water was the primary cause of the cholera outbreak.
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The storm, packing gusts of 90 kilometers (56 miles) per hour, moved out into the South China Sea before dawn after cutting through the central islands, the government weather station reported.

Rough waves capsized a small ferry off the southern tip of the main island of Luzon and two people on the boat are still missing, the Coast Guard said.
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DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman said the procedure is vital for the school children so they could go back to their normal life.
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Arnel Manresa, head of DOTC’s road transport planning division, said the PETC Operators Association had committed to cut their fees by P50 during a public hearing in Lipa City, Batangas.

"The DOTC was able to convince them to reduce their fees for the benefit of the motorists. This will be implemented soon," Manresa said.
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As of last Monday, the evacuees were sheltered in Rizal High School and the public elementary schools in barangays Maybunga, Ilugin, Nagpayong, Bambang, Kalawaan and Santolan. The city government has suspended classes in some of these schools to give way to the evacuees.
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