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July 3, 2014

SENATE HEARING ON BASIC COMMODITIES PRICE HIKE: Senator Cynthia A. Villar, chair of the Senate Agriculture and Food Committee, conducts a hearing on the spike in the prices of garlic and rice. She urges the country’s law enforcement agencies, particularly the National Bureau of Investigation to go after traders and hoarders and those involved in price manipulation that have burdened the consuming public with the sudden increase in the costs of garlic and rice.

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