Bayan Muna belies Philippines?s ?economic growth?

DAVAO CITY — Bayan Muna negated here today the recent pronouncement of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of posting the alleged highest economic growth in 20 years saying that the ?fake president is at it again, executing a grand sham design to divert public animosity over the new revelations of the Hello Garci scandal.?
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Workers incredulous?not surprised?over Philippines?s growth claim

DAVAO CITY — Kilusang Mayo Uno-Southern Mindanao Region today slammed Gloria Arroyo?s declaration that her administration?s plans for the economy has succeeded, saying the hard-up Filipino people will be the first ones to negate her preposterous claim.
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Noli wrong: Rising number of OFWs show Philippines’s bankruptcy ? Migrante

MANILA — Contrary to Vice-President Noli de Castro?s assertion that the growing number of Filipinos employed abroad was proof of an economic boom ? an alliance of overseas Filipino groups said the rising number of OFWs underline a worsening Philippine economy.
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Increasing Dutch investments in Philippines tied to Joma arrest

"By compromising national patrimony to the Dutch and allowing their companies full and unhampered access to Philippine natural resources, the Arroyo government was able to secure a deal with the Dutch government to go after Prof. Sison and the NDF in the Netherlands," said Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran.

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Ilagan wants Lumad agenda in Congress

"There is no dignity, in policy nor in practice, in the way our indigenous peoples are being treated. Indigenous communities are being displaced and threatened by mining concessions; they are being massacred supposedly in the name of development. There is an ethnocide going on in this country," Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan said.

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