DAVAO CITY — Newly proclaimed second district representative Vincent Garcia said one of his priority programs to help the poor sector is the scholarship programs which started since his first term of office with about 600 students enrolled yearly at the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) in Obrero, Davao City
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Protesters greeted President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as she visited Japan this week. These Japanese activists in Tokyo denounced the continued killings and disappearances of political activists in the Philippines, despite repeated…
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Bulatlat
Breaking News / Election Watch
May 21, 2007 ? 2:41pm
The poll monitoring group Kontra Daya (Anti-Fraud) has called on the next Congress to impeach Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos for what it described as the “questionable, tainted” character of the recently-concluded senatorial and local elections.
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Commentary: Intensified militarization aims to disrupt the political stability and divide the people in Mindanao. In this way, the coming elections will be under the control of the military, which serves a desperate administration that has no other way to win the elections but through fraudulent means.
A look at the election outcome in some of the political turfs would show whether the geopolitical balance of power has changed without necessarily shaking the infrastructures of political dynasties…