The anti-terrorism act: Recipe for undeclared martial law
Philippines: Pimentel asks Arroyo to stop playing with legal holidays
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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Comelec junks disqualification case vs. Bayan Muna
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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IFJ Condemns Conviction of Journalists, Publishing Houses in Ethiopia
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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Philippines: Cabinet revamp won?t solve political crisis
MANILA — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today belittled the upcoming cabinet revamp after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo asked for the courtesy resignations of her cabinet secretaries and the heads of Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs).
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