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President Gloria Arroyo has called for a 40-day oil supply reserve instead of the usual 12 days to avoid an oil crisis in the Philippines if the U.S. attacks Iraq.

An eight-man Philippine team left for Sabah yesterday to ask the head of the Malaysian state to allow them to establish processing centres to handle the consular services for an estimated 80,000 Filipinos who are being deported from the area, officials said.

Malaysian policemen allegedly raped three Filipinas in a detention centre in Sabah, a Filipino-Muslim told government lawyers upon her arrival in Tawi-Tawi, southern Philippines.

Hundreds of illegal workers from the Philippines left  for home from Malaysia's Sandakan port yesterday as a Philippine team criss-crossed the Malaysian state of Sabah and President Gloria Arroyo asked the social welfare department to look into reports of "sexual abuse of women in the deportation camps in Sabah".

A group of women held a protest rally in front of the Malaysian embassy yesterday morning to denounce the Malaysian police for the sexual abuse of deported women detained at the processing centre in Sabah.

President Gloria Arroyo has finalised a comprehensive assistance plan comprising relief and rehabilitation for returning Filipino-Muslims who were deported from Malaysia after a crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Representatives of the Philippine government called for the return of the body of a Filipino who was shot dead by Malaysian authorities after he had run amok and injured five people with a machete in a detention centre in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, said a TV report.

Four more minors allege rape