DAVAO CITY, Philippines — In celebration of the annual Philippine Eagle Week on June 4-10, the Philippine Eagle Center will be an Open House whole day Saturday, June 2, 2007. No entrance fees to get into the center and enjoy the beauty of the Philippine Eagle and other Philippine wildlife!
Analysis | The effect of the electoral sabotage is to cast doubt on the electoral process and the integrity of the Comelec itself. The effect of the sabotage strategy against the PPLs was not to undermine the bloc?s political base but to add another cause for making the current presidency illegitimate.
Analysis | By Datu Michael O. Mastura | Media reporters -- more accurately, opinion editors -- are wrong to say that casting of votes or counting of ballots runs afoul in the ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) simply because Muslim-Moro individuals have low literacy rate. What makes such comments most absurd is anti-Moro profiling of their leaders (if not out of discriminatory slant by sheer slur) who are perceived to keep them illiterate or uneducated enough to organize them into so-called ?command votes? constituency.
MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today branded as a canard the
allegation that he had opposed the computerization of
the country?s elections.
Referring to a political advertisement which appeared
in some newspapers blaming him and other legislators
for the poll automation fiasco, Pimentel said he has
always advocated the computerization of elections.
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The University of the Philippines Ayala TBI based JEDI project team scored another milestone, when it presented at the Sun JavaOne conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA. The conference was held last May 8-11. The team was led by Professors Rommel Feria and JP Petines of the UP Computer Science Department, who both co-chair the JEDI project in Manila.