Ang Peryodiko The News Paper August 1st - August 15th Issue

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VOLUME XII NO. 15 August 1-15, 2014 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA

The Newspaper

PH hunger rate drops in Q2 - SWS

MANDATORY EVAC. Due to the esca-

lating conflict between Israel and Palestinians, the Department of Foreign Affairs has raised Alert Level 4 in Gaza, which means mandatory repatriation of Filipinos will be implemented. Inset, shells from Israeli air and naval strike destroy buildings and infrastructure in Gaza, causing widespread destruction and panic. The DFA has also ordered a mandatory evacuation of Filipinos in Libya. Photos by: independent.

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l The survey research institute also said that overall hunger fell by 6.4 points to 21.1 percent among the self-rated poor

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ANILA (July 31) - While poverty incidence in the Philippines increased in the second quarter of this year, the country’s hunger rate dropped during the same period, the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

EU seeks PH ties beyond trade, aid fairs and security policy and European Commission vice president, said in her recent visit in Manila that the EU has sought new ways of collaboration with the Philippines beyond "trade and aid." One area is the EU support

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MANILA (July 31) — The European Union intends to have a "more strategically well-rounded" partnership with the Philippines beyond business and humanitarian efforts. Catherine Ashton, EU high representative for foreign af-

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The new SWS survey found 3.6 million Filipino families, or 16.3 percent of respondents, claiming they had experienced having nothing to eat in the past three months. The new hunger rate was 1.5 points below the 17.8 percent (estimated 3.9 million families) recorded in March and 3.2 points below last year’s 19.5 percent annual average. The SWS also said moderate hunger fell by 1.5 points to 13.5 percent or an estimated 3.3 million households in June. Moderate hunger refers to those who experience having nothing to eat “only once” or “a few times” in the last three months, the SWS said. But severe hunger, which refers to those who experience having without food “often” or “always,” stayed at 2.8 percent. “The 1.5-point fall in hunger... between March and June 2014 was due to falling hunger among the poor, food poor and non-food poor, combined with rising hunger among the non-poor,” the SWS noted. 

SPEAKING in Manila after talks with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton stressed that the European Union is the largest investor in the Philippines.

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