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TRANSPORT STRIKE. Steve Ranjo, national president of the leftist transport group Piston, announces the details of the nationwide transport strike they are staging on Monday, May 12, to protest the continued increase of oil prices, which it blames on government policies.Video taken by INQUIRER.net multimedia editorial assistant Abigail Kwok.

SANTIAGO: ‘BOMB MERALCO.’ Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago explains that the congressional investigation on Meralco will focus on why electric costs are still high seven years after the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was passed. She claims that syndicates run the private power firm. Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Veronica Uy.

TIGHT WATCH. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo visits the Department of Justice (DoJ) for the second straight day this week to follow up on the cases against suspected rice hoarders. She says she wants the process to be expedited. After her disappointment over the failure of the anti-rice hoarding task force to criminally charge erring officials of the National Food Authority, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez admits that the President has been hard on the NBI, although the President herself countered that she still thought that the bureau was doing a good job. Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Tetch Torres. READ FULL STORY

SLAIN ROBBERS’ LINK TO MAYOR’S MURDER PROBED. The Philippine National Police is looking into possible links of slain robbers to the murder of Bulacan town mayor Ramon Pagdanganan, Chief Superintendent Nicanor Bartolome, PNP spokesman, said Thursday. The suspects were killed in a shootout with police Wednesday night at their alleged safehouse in the village of Batia. Video taken by INQUIRER.net Contributor Raquel Mendiola. READ FULL STORY

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