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TRUCKERS' PROTEST * Phillipines
* Philippines - Truckers protest in front of DPWH
Manila,Philippines -ABS/CBNnews.com -18 July 2013: -- At least 50 trucks are causing heavy traffic in Manila's Port Area as members of a truckers' association hold their protest in front of the head office of Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)... The protest is causing heavy traffic in the area, police said. The drivers continue to occupy both lanes of the avenue and were just driving around the streets surrounding the DPWH office... The truckers are protesting the DPWH load limit imposed last month on cargo trucks... The truckers continued with their protest even if the DPWH already lifted the suspension. This is because the exemption is only meant for cargo trucks carrying farm products and cement...
* India - Manipur bound trucks stranded in Nagaland
Kohima,Nagaland and Manipur, India -The Hindu, by IBOYAIMA LAITHANGBAM -18 July 2013: -- Citing security reasons, truck drivers, who are stranded near Kohima due to a landslip, refused to take the Jessami-Ukhrul detour to reach Imphal... Drivers of Manipur bound trucks and buses have refused to take the detour as there will be no armed escorts. A few hundreds of vehicles have been stranded near Kohima, capital of Nagaland due a landslip along Highway 2 on July 13... The drivers who had been asked to proceed towards Jessami told The Hindu that militants are ruling the roost along this mountain road. There had been frequent reports of abductions of drivers, torching of trucks and other forms of harassments in the region. Trucks, inter-State buses and private vehicles ply along the two Highways 2 and 37, the lifelines of Manipur only when there are armed security guards... Border Roads Task Force officials said that the landslip cannot be repaired. Instead another bypass has to be constructed by cutting the nearby mountains. Officials added that the legal process for land acquisition and compensation and construction works shall take months to complete... Meanwhile prices of consumer items in Manipur have increased since most of essentials had vanished from the market. Fuel and consumer items cannot be brought via Highway 37 because of the poor condition of the 222-km long road...
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