MANILA — We are all aware of the many high profile incidents of election related violence and harassment. Since November, our electoral watch dog partner, COMPACT, has been compiling information ? to date, over 100 killed, about as many injured. All this violence perpetrated with the intent to either grab power or retain it by politicians that wish only to “serve the people”.
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Davao City has the biggest number of registered voters in the southeastern Mindanao region with a total of 750,662 from all 5,542 voting precincts scattered in the city?s 182 barangays.
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MANILA, Philippines, May 11, 2007 ? The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and its subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. are expecting more than 300 delegates from over 110 telecommunications carriers and entities from Asia, Europe and the Pacific Rim to attend the 3rd Asian Carriers Conference (ACC) in Cebu City from May 15 to 18, 2007.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is horrified by the deaths of three employees from the Tamil daily Dinakaran, a result of violent protests and arson attacks on the newspaper?s office on Wednesday May 9 in Madurai.
MANILA — With only three days more to go before the conduct of the midterm polls, Malaca?ang made an assurance to the Filipino people and foreign (poll) observers that next Monday?s polls would be peaceful and clean.
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