With the way speculators and giant oil companies have been playing with oil prices, one could not help but be incensed. Why would oil prices rise when there has been no supply shock nor an increase in costs of producing oil? The sharp increases in pump prices have been dealing speculators and oil companies, and [...]

Farmers in Caraga, Davao Oriental, are hit hard by the slump in prices. This young boy seems to mull over the uncertainty faced by coconut farmers while kopreros deftly extract the coconut meat to be kiln-dried later into copra. Local compradors buy well-dried copra at 10 pesos per kilo but usually deduct a kilo from each 60-kilo sack for resicada or moisture content.
Photo by T.W. TRINIDAD
(Bulatlat.com)
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