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MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) must streamline its rules on the 45-day election ban on public spending and expedite actions on pending requests for exemptions. In a statement Friday, Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte said the Comelec could speed up its action on applications for exemptions on fund releases or disbursements by giving itself a deadline of seven to 10 days. He said the Comelec could do away with the holding of a mandatory hearing to tackle each individual application and just approve the request motu proprio (on its initiative), if and when ...

(PNA Bacolod file photo) BACOLOD CITY - Sugar producers have sounded the alarm over a new proposal from the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to import sugar. In a statement on Friday, the United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED), the largest in the country with more than 30,000 member-planters nationwide, said the proposal seeks the entry of 350,000 metric tons (MTs) of raw and refined sugar into the country. UNIFED president Manuel Lamata, who is based in Negros Occidental, said they have obtained a draft copy of Sugar Order (SO) No. 4, which is "similar and in a bigger volume&quo...

Vitarich Corp., one of the pioneering firms in poultry and feed manufacturing in the country, is strengthening its biosecurity standards driven by the detection of the avian, virus, or bird flu, in parts of the country.

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Sugar Regulatory Administrator Hermenegildo Serafica has been threatened with contempt charges and arrest by the United Sugar

The Department of Agriculture has banned the importation of poultry from several states in the US due due to reported cases of  avian influenza or bird flu.