Guangxi, Subic Bay to talk on sisterhood to boost tourism, ports industry

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT?A 36-man economic delegation from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People?s Republic of China (PROC) visited here as part of its apparent gesture of strengthening mutual cooperation and friendship between the PROC and the Republic of the Philippines.
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Philippines election exec in alleged vote-padding for Kasangga

MANILA — Caloocan BOC chair face life imprisonment over Kasangga vote-padding
Partylist groups Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Gabriela, Kabataan and Suara
Bangsamoro will file charges tomorrow against the chair of the Board
of Canvassers in Caloocan City in connection with alleged tampering of
votes in the city.
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Philippines’s progressive party-lists being edged out of legislative arena

MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the abduction and ‘salvaging’ or summary execution of members and officials of the progressive party-lists will most likely continue long after the 2007 elections because the incumbent administration is hell-bent on driving out the progressive party-lists from the legislative arena.

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Next Congress should probe ‘alarming role’ of Philippines army, police in elections

MANILA — Partylist Bayan Muna today said the 14th Congress is morally bound to
hold a full-blown congressional investigation on the Armed Forces of
the Philippines’ and Philippine National Police’s alarming role in
partisan politics, electoral fraud and violence in the 2007 elections.
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Comelec, Arroyo liable for questionable Philippines elections, says group

MANILA — An indignant Kontra Daya marched to the Philippine International Covention Center to deliver its initial post election report amdist news of possible wholesale fraud in Mindanao and other provinces. (Report is attached herewith.)
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