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Meralco told to limit generation charge

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MANILA, Philippines – The Energy Regulatory Commission directed the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) on Wednesday to limit the increase in the generation charge for March to 91.14 centavos per kilowatt-hour, lower than the P1.3852-per-kWh increase proposed by the power distributor. This means that the basic generation charge in customers' electricity bills this month will... »

Meralco plans to go back into power generation

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MANILA, philippines--The country's biggest power retailer Manila Electric Co. »

BUT CAUTIOUS ON THE TOP TIER –> Meralco: No borrowing plans this year

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BY JOHN POQUIZ The Manila Electric Co. has no need to borrow this year, Meralco treasurer Rafael Andrada recently said »

El Niño drought feared to cut RP’s rice yields

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MANILA, Philippines—A possible drought caused by the El Niño weather system could slash Philippines rice yields this year, the government warned Tuesday, as Manila prepared to deal with any possible crisis. Government models project 2010 rice harvests would be... »

SC strikes down ordinance barring ’short-time’ in motels

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WITH Valentine's Day just around the corner, expect hotels, motels, inns, pension and lodging houses in Manila to be quite full, especially after the Supreme Court yesterday finally struck down as unconstitutional an ordinance prohibiting short-time admissions and wash-up rate promos in such establishments. In an en banc decision penned by Associate Justice Dante... »

Teodoro tells youth: Up to you to make this country great again

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01/17/2010 Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. is getting used to the “rock-star” welcome on his current tour of leading campuses in Metro Manila. »

RP buys Viet rice

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1M tons to start arriving February By IRMA ISIP The Philippines has agreed to buy at least one million tons of rice from Vietnam trade sources from Hanoi and Manila said yesterday. The volume accounts for two-thirds of the 1.5 million tons the government earlier announced it will import for the year. Last year... »

NCRPO, MPD order on reshuffle of police officers rankles Lim

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By Pat C. Santos 01/13/2010 Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim yesterday asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the recent reorganization/reshuffle of the station commanders and directorial staff of the Manila Police District on orders of Police Director Roberto Rosales, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), and MPD... »

There’s money in backyard farming — Yap

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INFORMAL settlers relocated to the provinces need not return to Manila for their livelihood. Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said there is money in backyard vegetable farming if only these people would exert effort and have patience »

Meralco warns against fake billing collectors

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MANILA, Philippines -- The Manila Electric Co. »

Meralco to raise electricity rates this month

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MANILA, Philippines - Customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the country's biggest power distributor, will have to pay an additional 25 centavos per kilowatt-hour for their electricity bills this month due to the higher cost of power supplied by power generation companies. Thus, households consuming 100 kWh of electricity a month or less... »

Manila reeling from latest typhoon

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4:00AM Monday Nov 02, 2009 MANILA - A typhoon has battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, killing at least 14 people and sending residents of one town clambering on to rooftops to escape rising waters. Typhoon Mirinae was the fourth storm to lash the northern Philippines since.. »

Brownouts to continue, says Meralco

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MANILA, Philippines—Power distributor Manila Electric Co. said that "rotating brownouts" were to continue on Saturday as restoration work on the damaged transformers of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NCGP) were still ongoing »

Philippine death toll rises as new storms brew

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The toll from floods in the northern Philippines rose to at least 284 dead or missing Tuesday as bedraggled victims queued up for aid and Typhoon Ketsana roared into Vietnam. The storm, which struck Manila and surrounding provinces on Saturday, gathered strength across the South China Sea, and claimed at... »