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Livestock farmers hit by losses, seek lifeline

Livestock farmers hit by losses, seek lifeline

With falling demand and rising feed prices pushing them into losses, small animal farms are asking the government for preferential bank loans and a rollover of debts. Many households in southern Dong Nai Province have even stopped breeding altogether, as much as 50% of small breeders in some areas, because …

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Fire on passenger ferry in Philippines kills 10: coast guard

Fire on passenger ferry in Philippines kills 10: coast guard

Ten people have died and 230 have been rescued after a passenger ferry caught fire on Wednesday evening in the seas off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, a coast guard official said. Nine people were injured in the fire that started in air-conditioned cabins, Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard …

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