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The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) is the largest union body in the Philippines, with about 1.5 million members and 39 affiliated labor and trade unions. In the late 1990s the Philippines had more than 8,000 trade unions with a total membership of 3.6 million.
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One of the first was Virgilio Santiago, who completed his medical training at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines in 1949. This medical training led him to psychoanalytic training under Robert Waelder, a student of Freud's. He then went on to study at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. This was an unusual route to follow, since most psychiatrists were trained in the dominant organic school of psychiatry. In the 1950s psychoanalysis was strictly forbidden by the conservative Catholic clergy. Santiago was ... discouraged by his colleagues from pursuing the field.
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"My previous harvest of traditional corn was 80 sacks of corn kernels per hectare," said Rafael Sarmiento, who farms 1.3 hectares near General Santos City in the Philippines. "With Bt corn, I now harvest close to 132 sacks of corn kernels per hectare." In fact, the report said increased yields from Bt corn production were able to meet the subsistence requirements of a family of five in the Philippines, while conventional corn could not.
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The Egmont Group, the international network of financial intelligence units (FIUs), admitted the Philippines to its membership in June 2005. As of December 2006, anti-terrorism/terrorist financing legislation had been passed in the House of Representatives and was pending on second reading in the Philippine Senate.
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