Besides the aim to liberalize the power sector, Manila is also under financial pressure to dispose of the NPC - and reduce the burden of covering its deficit.

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One Weibo post asking for users' own suggestions for what should be done at the "two sessions" - the NPC and the simultaneous meeting of China's top consultative body - received more than seven million responses.

BBC: China NPC: Social media reaction

Meralco says it is not interested in the NPC's 230-kilovolt main transmission line, but just in the 115-kv subsidiary link to the southern Luzon provinces of Cavite and Laguna, where the country's major industries - Meralco's customers - are situated.

CNN: Up from the Ocean

Avoiding NPC conversations or running back to a quest-giver is a time saver, but the quests themselves are still very much the same as in other MMOs.

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No fancy high-definition mods, or mods that remove the helms from every NPC in the game, but still lots of good gamey meat to gnaw on.

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Most of the charities - which all receive funding from government sources - said they were having to rely increasingly on volunteers, according to the NPC report.

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