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THOUSANDS of workers and their supporters marched and converged in various points in Metro Manila for the annual Labor Day celebrations, which is being held today amid a global financial crisis, threats of a swine flu epidemic, and even excitement over much-awaited fight between national boxing champ Manny Pacquiao and British welterweight titleholder Ricky Hatton.

By LUZ RIMBAN FARMERS are asking the Department of Agrarian to immediately distribute to 67 farmer-beneficiaries Hacienda Bacan in Isabela, Negros Occidental owned by the family of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The farmers said they are merely collecting on the promise Arroyo herself made eight years ago that she would distribute 1,000 hectares of Arroyo

By LUZ RIMBAN  IN A few months, the rains will come and their first stop will be the Bicol Region. Every year, many of the 20 or so typhoons that hit the Philippines strike land first in Bicol, bringing deadly floods and landslides. Among the many areas usually hard hit by typhoons is the small