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New foreign group eyes local pre-need industry

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | August 8, 2002 - 12:00am

Amid problems plaguing the pre-need industry, a Singaporean-American group has signified interest in entering the Philippine pre-need market to take advantage of the growing awareness by the public of the financial...

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