In this fifth and last installment of Davao Today’s series of Q&As on next week’s elections, Bobby Tuazon, a political analyst at the Center for People Empowerment in Government (CenPEG), points out the deterioration of the Philippine political system and why this election is not going to change that.
Journalists? leaders and media chiefs meeting in Iraq today issued a new appeal for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist who has been missing for eight weeks in Palestine.
The Iraqi journalism community was meeting in Irbil in the north of the country to put together a national safety and security strategy to combat the threats to media and reporters in a conflict that has already claimed the lives of more than 200 media staff since the United States invasion in 2003.
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MANILA — The American people have introduced 400 former combatants of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) from North Cotabato, Central Mindanao to the production of cardaba bananas, a particular variety of bananas that are in demand by domestic and overseas markets, particularly for banana chips.
MANILA — The American people are proud to support efforts against trafficking in persons in the Philippines ? and most importantly, programs that support victims by giving them shelter and emotional care.
Yet another politically motivated trial in Viet Nam has turned citizens who have only peacefully expressed opinions into prisoner of conscience. Today, three leading members of the People?s Democratic Party (PDP) were sentenced to prison terms of between three and five years in what the prosecutor in the Ho Chi Minh City People?s Court described as a warning to other ?hostile forces.?
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