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		<title>TUCP Workers&#8217; College TUCP/TUCP Party List/TESDA Free Training Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to circumstances beyond our control, screening for TUCP Workers College courses are suspended until further notice. For further information, please call/text/email: Telephone: (02) 525 3522; +63 927 584 4228. Email: tucp.education@gmail.com; tucpresearch@gmail.com; secrtucp@gmail.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/tucp-workers-college-tucptucp-party-listtesda-free-training-program-4/</link>
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		<title>Not a matter of bad luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When presidential adviser for political affairs Ronald Llamas was caught on camera buying pirated DVDs, the public reacted with amused incredulity. Ang malas naman nya! What bad luck! Many eventually called for his resignation primarily to spare the President from having to agonize over what is presumed to be a difficult ethical dilemma. Oh okay, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/not-a-matter-of-bad-luck/</link>
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		<title>OC about OCR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I RECENTLY needed to scan and post a book excerpt for a class I teach but wanted the pages to be available as text, not images. That meant using optical character recognition or OCR software that can translate scanned pages from my book to machine-encoded text. The advantages of storing the pages as text, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/oc-about-ocr/</link>
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		<title>Company under fire over toxic waste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MALOLOS CITY—-The Bulacan Environment and Natural Resources Office has fined and ordered Glo Siphoning Septic Tank &#38; Declogging Pipelines Services to explain why its license should not be revoked for alleged pollution. The ‘notice of violation’ was levied against the after three employes on a company vehicle were caught dumping liquid waste and hazardous substances [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/company-under-fire-over-toxic-waste/</link>
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		<title>Property market monitored</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bangko Sentral has not detected signs of asset price bubbles yet, but is closely watching the housing market, which could become a source of concern. “There have been limited signs of asset price bubbles thus far, although some segments of the residential property sector could be at risk of an oversupply,” the Bangko Sentral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/property-market-monitored/</link>
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		<title>Who profits from mining?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very few realize that to produce a single gold ring, 20 tons of mine wastes are generated. And where does all mine wastes go? To the rivers, the water systems, the air, the soil, the animals and the plants. Eventually, these toxic wastes will find themselves lodged in human bodies. Based on studies, trillions of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/who-profits-from-mining/</link>
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		<title>No rent seeking on RE please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some proponents of renewable energy are getting desperate. They have apparently engaged some PR professionals to get media behind their attempt to unfairly benefit from a government imposed subsidy supposedly to save the environment. Thus far, they have failed to get what they want, thanks to a group of economists and public policy advocates who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/no-rent-seeking-on-re-please/</link>
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		<title>Private economists slash inflation forecast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Private economists further slashed their inflation forecast for the Philippines this year and next on the back of fragile global economic growth due to weaker than expected expansion in advanced economies led by the US and Europe, a survey conducted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Based on the BSP’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/private-economists-slash-inflation-forecast/</link>
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		<title>SSS ready to invest P50 B on PPP projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines &#8211; The Social Security System (SSS), the state-owned pension fund for private employees, is ready to invest as much as P50 billion in the government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program for infrastructure, its top official said. “If there are good opportunities in PPP, we have allocated as much as P50 billion,” SSS president and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/sss-ready-to-invest-p50-b-on-ppp-projects/</link>
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		<title>Noynoy reduces deficit cap for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Benigno Aquino III has set a lower deficit cap for the current year, setting sight on a 2.6 percent limit for fiscal year 2012, lower than the target set for 2011. “Last year’s preliminary performance posted better figures than our projected 3 percent deficit versus the gross domestic product (GDP). Now that we’re aiming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tucp.org.ph/news/index.php/2012/02/noynoy-reduces-deficit-cap-for-2012/</link>
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