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[Title] => Binay to grace opening of Social Watch 2011 Global Assembly
[Summary] => Vice President Jejomar Binay will grace the opening rites of the Social Watch 2011 Global Assembly on July 12, which will be attended by delegates from over 60 countries at the Sulo Riviera Hotel in Quezon City.
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[Title] => RP panel urged to defend agricultural sector at WTO meet
[Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and other senior trade officials attending the ongoing Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in India are being urged to remain firm in defending the Philippine agricultural sector against unfair trade deals that may be detrimental to Filipino farmers.
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[Title] => Government urged to delay tariff cut on rice imports
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines - Farmer groups and non-government organizations such as the Rice Watch and Action Network (R1) has urged the government not to reduce the import tariff rate on rice under the full implementation of the ASEAN Free Trade Arrangement (AFTA).
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[Title] => Rice imports may not lower prices of staple food NGO
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[Title] => Half-rice offered at McDonald amid fears of food crisis
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[Title] => NFA chief’s resignation ‘suspicious’ — farmers’ group
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A farmers’ organization expressed concern yesterday over the resignation of Gregorio Tan Jr. as administrator of the National Food Authority (NFA), finding it "suspicious" in the wake of preparations for the May mid-term elections.
The group, Rice Watch and Action Network (R1), urged the public to be vigilant on what it claimed could be "other possible reorganization plans" in the Department of Agriculture, following the re-appointment of Secretary Arthur Yap to the agency late last year.
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The collapse of the WTO talks, blamed largely on the developed countries’ refusal to put an end to trade-distorting domestic and export subsidies in agriculture, opens doors for more lopsided bilateral trade agreements for developing countries like the Philippines.
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[Title] => Group hits US attempt to push bilateral trade pact with RP
[Summary] => A civil society group is claiming the United States (US) is dangling bilateral trade deals in a bid to weaken the position of the Philippine government in the ongoing negotiations of the World Trade Organizatons (WTO) in Geneva.
The group, Rice Watch and Action Network (RI), said US trade representatives have been exerting extra pressure on negotiators to agree to bilateral trade deals that would effectively compromise the country’s efforts to shield vulnerable agriculture and non-agriculture commodities from further tariff reduction and trade liberalization.
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[Title] => Poor countries to block rich nations’ attempts
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JESSICA REYES-CANTOS
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The group, Rice Watch and Action Network (R1), urged the public to be vigilant on what it claimed could be "other possible reorganization plans" in the Department of Agriculture, following the re-appointment of Secretary Arthur Yap to the agency late last year.
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The group, Rice Watch and Action Network (RI), said US trade representatives have been exerting extra pressure on negotiators to agree to bilateral trade deals that would effectively compromise the country’s efforts to shield vulnerable agriculture and non-agriculture commodities from further tariff reduction and trade liberalization.
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