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US urges China to convince Nokor to scrap missile launch The administration of Barack Obama is urging China to help convince North Korea to abandon its planned ballistic missile launch. There are new concerns that North Korea may also be planning another nuclear test. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States continues to urge all countries that may have influence on North Korea–– most notably China––to use that influence to make clear that they also disapprove of
the planned missile launch and believe it will further isolate Pyongyang. As for Washington’s message about the launch, Nuland said it is simple: “Don’t do it.” “North Korea’s launch of a missile would be highly provocative. It would pose a threat to regional security,” said Nuland. “And it will be inconsistent with its recent undertakings to refrain from any kind of long-range missile launches.” The most recent of those undertakings was a February
agreement with the United States to resume nuclear inspections in exchange for food aid. That deal was broken by Pyongyang’s announcement that it will launch a weather satellite in the next few days aboard an Unha-3 rocket. South Korean intelligence photos, obtained by VOA, also show what appear to be preparations for a third North Korean nuclear test. VOA or the Voice of America is a dynamic multimedia broadcaster funded by the US government.
While she would not confirm that intelligence information, Nuland said another nuclear test “would be equally bad if not worse” than the missile launch. North Korea said launching a weather satellite is a purely civilian operation. But Nuland said US negotiators made clear that any ballistic missile use would be a deal breaker. “They can’t launch the thing without using ballistic South Korean Army soldiers watch a TV news program missile technology, which is which shows North Korea’s Unha-3 rocket at Seoul train precluded by UN Security station in Seoul, South Korea, April 9, 2012. MISSILE/PAGE 7 VOANEWS . COM PHOTO
Lass gypped of P22t cash CUSTOMS WARNS PUBLIC OF INTERNET FRAUD, SCAMMERS By CRIS DIAZ, Associate Editor
AN UNIDENTIFIED FOREIGNER gypped a lady from Cagayan de Oro City of almost all her personal savings through an illegal transaction via the internet, a top customs official said Tuesday. Commissioner Ruffy Biazon of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) did not mention the name of the lady-victim but warned the public of impostors who used the internet and mails
in their illegal operations. He said the suspect befriended and promised the lady from Cagayan de Oro to send her a package through a notice purportedly coming from the BoC after she
would pay a certain amount. Biazon warned the public that BoC never sends letters of notice about packages from abroad and about duties to be paid by an individual since only the Postal Service Office sends out notices. BoC’s responsibility is to assess the value and to collect payments for dutiable goods being sent through the country’s postal service. “We do not send letters or notices to individuals about parcels from abroad
Paying the Correct Taxes... “A Noble Act of Concern and Love, for Oneself, our Children and our Country”
and their corresponding duties to be paid,” Biazon said. “Moreover, should there be payments for duties and taxes, its payee shall be the Bureau of Customs and not somebody else. I am really saddened that some individuals have lost thousands of pesos to this scam,” he added. Biazon cited a case of a lady from Cagayan De Oro City who recently lost Php 22,100 to a foreigner con artist whom she met through LASS/PAGE 7
Common-law wife hacks live-in partner to death By PAT SAMONTE and JOEL PORTUGAL BUTUAN City––A 43-year-old woman hacked and killed a miner and her live-in partner in Purok10, Sinayugan, Bayugan 3, Rosario, Agusan del Sur over the weekend. Authorities identified the victim as Godofredo Campos Gona, alias Royroy, 37, and the suspect as Thelma Abao Rojas. Police initial investigation showed that the couple had a heated argument after which they and their children prepared their bed to sleep at around 7 pm. Suddenly, Thelma allegedly hacked her live-in partner several times with a bolo. Gona succumbed to multiple hack wounds, police said. DEATH/PAGE 7
Oil firms cut fuel price, raise premium gasoline OIL companies have reduced the prices of their petroleum products by P0.30 to P0.50 per liter effective Tuesday. Pilipinas Shell, Petron Corp. and Total Philippines cut prices of diesel by P0.50 per liter, kerosene by P0.40 and regular gas by P0.30. But they raised prices of their unleaded gasoline by P0.30 per liter. Small industry players Seaoil and Phoenix Petro-
leum followed suit as they implemented similar price adjustments. Other oil firms have yet to announce any adjustment in their prices. The new price adjustment reflect price movements in the world oil prices. As of Monday, the price of diesel in Metro Manila averaged P47 per liter while gasoline and kerosene at P57. pna
WEATHER UPDATE RIDGE of High Pressure Area (HPA) affecting Extreme Northern Luzon. Trough of a low pressure area affecting Mindanao. Palawan, Eastern Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and isolated thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Moderate to strong winds blowing from the east to northeast will prevail over Extreme Northern Luzon and its coastal waters will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the east to northeast with slight to moderate seas.
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