MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today urged the Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) to scrap its plan to redeploy
soldiers to depressed barangays in Metro Manila now
that the mid-term elections are over.
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MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today called for an end to
Malaca?ang?s distasteful practice of moving important
legal holidays to other days to give the people a long
weekend in line with the administration?s so called
holiday economics.
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MANILA – Bayan Muna today welcomed the Commission on Elections ruling
dismissing for “lack of merit” two trumped-up disqualification
complaints filed against it, Anakpawis and Gabriela by two women from
Nueva Ecija.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the conviction of four journalists and three publishing houses in Ethiopia on charges they attempted to ?dismantle the constitutional system? after they published articles about the anti-government riots in November 2005 that came after elections in the country six months earlier.
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