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WASHINGTON, D.C.: NASA on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth — to send a high-definition cat video.
MANILA, Philippines — The farmgate price of onions went down by P40 per kilo in the Ilocos region amid high demand for the bulbs this holiday season, farmers’ group Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) said yesterday.
It’s been a long journey from Tonga to the Philippines for Asi Taulava. When he arrived here to play for Blu Detergent in the PBL in 1997, there were doubts as to his ethnicity. Was he actually half-Filipino? Taulava was deported in the wake of suspicions of fake Fil-foreigners claiming blood lineage in 2000. Sonny Alvarado, Rob Parker and Al Segova were exposed as impostors, shipped out and never heard of again. But Taulava fought for his rights, returned in 2001 and later brought his Filipina mother Pauline Hernandez to appear before a panel of immigration interrogators to argue his case. He was eventually cleared by the Department of Justice.
MANILA, Philippines — United Broiler Raisers Association and Philippines Egg Board chairman Gregorio San Diego yesterday lamented the continued drop in the farmgate price of chicken, which is now as low as P90 per kilo despite the retail cost remaining high at P220 per kilo.
MANILA, Philippines — There is no plan to impose a suggested retail price (SRP) on onions despite a spike in retail prices as the bulbs are sold at P220 per kilo, a ranking Department of Agriculture (DA) official said yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — The retail price of chicken went up to P210 per kilo amid the drop in local production as poultry raisers suffered losses amid the flooding of imported frozen products, according to the poultry raisers’ group United Broiler Raisers Association (UBRA).
MANILA, Philippines — Two cities from Luzon and one in Visayas were recognized as the most bicycle-friendly cities in the Philippines this year, according to the Mobility Awards.